While my exploration of Chicago’s neighborhoods will likely go on as long as I can lift a camera, Women in Focus/Chicago’s exhibition of photos from our 12-month adventure in 12 Chicago neighborhoods closed on Friday. If you came out to the Hairpin Arts Center to see the show, thank you! If you didn’t, stay tuned: we’re planning to turn up again soon in a neighborhood near you!
The Chicago Neighborhoods Project is the culmination of a year of work by WIF photographers who visited a different neighborhood each month, capturing thousands of images representing the people, sights, and culture of Bronzeville, Chinatown, Downtown, Historic Pullman, Hyde Park, Lincoln Park and the Lakefront, Logan Square, Pilsen, Rogers Park, Uptown, the West Loop, and Wicker Park.
Curated by Richard Cahan and Charles Osgood, two well-known experts on both photography and Chicago neighborhoods, the full show made its debut at Hairpin, following a preview exhibit at Café SelMarie in summer 2017 and inclusion of select works in Jackson Junge Gallery’s “In the ‘Hood” show over the 2017 holiday season. The full project includes 74 archival fine art photographs, representing each of the 12 neighborhoods with 5-7 photographs. Here are my contributions:
