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The Lens

The Lens is the FotoFocus editorial platform, highlighting our programming and featuring in-depth conversations on photography and the moving image drawn from perspectives and insights in our community, throughout our region, and around the globe.

Recording Cincinnati: The Queen City In The Eyes Of Alice Cusson

Posted on March 23, 2022

"Recording Cincinnati World" features the photography of Cincinnati-area amateur photographer, Alice Cusson (1906-1971). Ms. Cusson's images present an eerie Cincinnati of the past captured in extraordinary yet everyday images. Continue

Wildest Dream

Posted on March 22, 2022

Using photography to raise awareness for the effects of climate change on animal species, I.imagine teen photographers exhibit beautiful images of endangered species currently living at the Cincinnati Zoo. Continue

Refuge: Needing, Seeking, Creating Shelter

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As civil strife, economic insecurity, and environmental crises proliferate, artists from across the globe explore the search for refuge—how, why, and where people need, seek, and create shelter. Continue

American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs

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This touring exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, brings together highlights from David Levinthal’s fascinating photographs of toys as a way to examine American stories. Continue

I Hear America Singing: Contemporary Photography from America

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Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) is pleased to announce the exhibition I Hear America Singing: Contemporary Photography from America on view at the Pizzuti Collection opening May 20, 2022. Continue