Scooping out a dry river bed. Trudging miles to a community tap just to collect clean water. Piling into a tiny room with dirt floors and mud walls with over 100 of your classmates packed inside to learn your daily lesson. These are just a few aspects of life in the...
Science Inspires Latest Photography Exhibit at Candela Books + Gallery
Science and art are such an uncommon intersection, which arguably makes for a curious theme. Candela Books + Gallery delves into this idea with eight artists in their latest exhibit, “Science As Muse.” The exhibit, which features photographic works from Walter...
The Road Less Traveled: RVA photog Kip Dawkins discusses his exhibit ‘Vacant’ at Quirk Gallery
Local advertising photographer Kip Dawkins did not intend to take his craft, which has long been a professional endeavor, to expressive visual artistry. He did not expect photographs of the rustic scenery of America’s back roads taken while traveling for his...
Seven artists manipulate everyday images into art in Candela Books & Gallery’s exhibit, ‘CHOP SHOP’
Through various processes of manipulation, six international and one Richmond artist aim to transform everyday images in Candela Books & Gallery’s latest exhibit, CHOP SHOP. All of the works in the group exhibition have been altered through digital manipulation,...
‘STUMP’: Candela Books and Gallery’s exhibit explores politics, Black Lives Matter movement, and other heated national issues
In a collection of photography that sheds light on the current political climate the country is facing, Candela Books and Gallery’s exhibition, "STUMP," looks at central political conversations from a more rare perspective usually not available to the average...
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