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We are so excited to have our first "Upstate Photography Biennial" open to the public! Featured here are three of the 39 fantastic artists in the exhibition. Working across a variety of lens-based practices, they demonstrate that contemporary photography is being defined and innovated by artists in our region. Come and see for yourself!

@kevinwilliamson — Kevin Williamson
Selections from recent work

@letha.wilson — Letha Wilson
Selections from recent work

@sarajwinston — Sara J. Winston
"Sugar Honey Iced Tea"

With an opening at CPW on May 30, 2026, the Biennial will remain on view through September 6, 2026.

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Well that was a blast!!! After a couple weeks of rest and sitting in our gratitude we are pleased to share the official installation photos of the first year’s exhibition LONG ENOUGH TO TIE MY SHOE held @villaheikekunstverein

We would like to extend an extra special thank you to @ralfoto for curating one last exhibition, your guidance and expertise made the exhibition such a success. We’d also like to thank @clrbhlsn for taking the time to critic our work, we really appreciated your feedback.

Our hearts and minds are full after such an incredible experience in Berlin. Thank you to all of those who came from far and wide to see the exhibition in person, we can’t thank you enough!

A final thank you to @mvahrenwald and @chikaraumihara for organizing and helping everything go smoothly ✨

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My project for the Upstate Photography Biennial is called “Pedestals for People,” and for now I’m thinking about how it sits within three distinct kinds of spaces:

1a. The public parks and sidewalks in the city of Kingston, NY.

2a. The galleries of the not-for-profit photography museum CPW.

3a. Here - on the endless digital feed of a publicly traded trillion-dollar company.

1b. If you live in Kingston, you have probably seen (or will see) the work in public.

2b. If you live in New York, I hope you make a visit to CPW.

3b. If you live somewhere else, I hope the digital images and text that I’ll be sharing over the course of this summer provide you with some small feelings of joy and energizing opportunities for contemplation.

Lastly , for now, I want to say that I’ve never had the opportunity to work at this scale before and I’m infinitely grateful to curators @marinaschao and @adamgilesryan for their trust and collaboration. Together, we settled on an installation of my project that would function as a unifying grammar - punctuation marks scattered throughout the entire exhibition space that reiterate the fundamental ways in which large exhibitions create opportunities for dialogue between diverse objects, ideas, and people.

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Some things I admired in the @cpw_kingston biennial. A beautiful, modest, and some understated exhibition of photographers roaming through this part of the world, living here, working here, or knowing something we don't know. Apologies to the artist I didn't choose but we don't have all day.

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‘Family and the landscape are inseparable in my photographic work. Through the documentation of my family's relationship to the natural world, I have built an intricate narrative of human intervention in nature.’ Kevin Williamson

#idaretoshoot #photographyinspiration #kevinwilliamson

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Berlin was incredible and I’m so thankful to have done it with new friends. A big thank you to all the artists that shared their studios and their processes with us. And to the faculty @hartfordphotomfa for a great session and @ralfoto for curating an amazing show with us ♥️♥️

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Thank you to Hartford Photography Program, Michael, Chikara, and Robert for welcoming me to Berlin and letting me be part of such a special week. The studio visits with Lukas Hoffmann and Clara Bahlsen were inspiring, and it was wonderful to spend time with artists so deeply engaged with the medium.

A big congratulations to the first-year students for mounting a fantastic exhibition.

It was particularly special to be there for Robert’s final session of a program he has built into a real juggernaut. Grateful for the invitation, the conversations, and the community.

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Today is the day! Our first year MFA students have been working hard all week to put together LONG ENOUGH TO TIE MY SHOE at @villaheikekunstverein. Join us for the vernissage starting at 18:30. You won’t want to miss it!

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All week we’ve been hanging our show for @hartfordphotomfa. It opens tonight! Folks in Berlin, join us at Ville Heike from 18:30-21:30. We’d love to see you!

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BERLIN!!! Come out this Thursday, May 21st for the vernissage of LONG ENOUGH TO TIE MY SHOE — an exhibition featuring never-before-seen work by eleven Masters students from the University of Hartford’s Limited-Residency Photography MFA program.

For the first time in Europe, these works will be shown together for a very limited time. Curated by the former director @ralfoto and hosted by @villaheikekunstverein you do not want to miss this!

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Hosted by Villa Heike Berlin, the International Limited-Residency MFA in Photography program at the Hartford Art School / University of Hartford (US) is pleased to present “Long Enough To Tie My Shoe”, an exhibition featuring the work of eleven master students from the class of 2027.

Curated by Robert Lyons @ralfoto, with advice by Michael Vahrenwald @mvahrenwald and Chikara Umihara @chikaraumihara, this exhibition features in-progress work by first-year MFA students in the program:

Ruben Alvarado @rubercoober
Sabrina Giacomaggio @sabrinagiacomaggio
Rafael Gonzalez @rafael__gonzalez__
Brandon Lavoie @bylavoie
Dominic Leon @_dominic_leon
Jonah Markowitz @jonahmarkowitz
Sylvie Redmond @sylvie_redmond
Charlotte Straus @mt.charsuvius
John Tait @john76
Jersey Walz @jerseywalz
Kevin Williamson @kevinwilliamson

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, May 21, 2026 from 6:30 – 9:30 pm at Villa Heike Kunstverein in Berlin!

☞ Read more on PiE Photography in Europe:
https://www.photographyineurope.com/villa-heike-kunstverein-hartford-mfa-long-enough-to-tie-my-shoe/on

Image: © Charlotte Straus, Antlers (2026), 16x20', Silver Gelatin Print

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A week from today in BERLIN — Hosted by Villa Heike, we invite you to the opening reception for LONG ENOUGH TO TIE MY SHOE an exhibition featuring the work of eleven masters students from the class of 2027. Join us from 18:30–21:30 on May 21st for an evening of music, discussion, refreshments, and most importantly photography.

Curated by Robert Lyons, this exhibition features in-progress work by first-year MFA students in the program. We appreciate the other faculty, Michael Vahrenwald (Director) and Chikara Umihara, for their valuable insight and assistance in making this exhibition possible.

The photographic works included will reflect a range of approaches and styles, yet all engage photography’s enduring relationship to time — its ability to hold, mark and measure a moment. Each artist uses the camera as a starting point for reflection on growth, memory, distance, and family.

Through gesture, landscape, body, and trace, these artists consider duration as both threshold and transformation. Working with distinct practices, they meet at long enough to tie my shoe — not a place, but a measure of time that allows for pause, awareness, and the possibility of becoming.

Poster design: @redithw

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