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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.

Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow

Posted on April 22, 2024

Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour, a key work in Revival, is a poetic meditation on Frederick Douglass’ life informed by some of the abolitionist’s most important speeches, such as… Continue

In Pursuit of Empathy

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In Pursuit of Empathy invites sixteen lens-based and mixed-media artists to explore their perceptions of empathy and how their work captures true human connection. This group exhibition features a collection… Continue

Glenna Jennings: Sit Down!

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Sit Down! presents new works by Glenna Jennings with, around, and about food. The tables of Jennings’ youth were compact, plastic, and single-serve, meant to be folded and put away,… Continue

Amber N. Ford: The Roads Most Traveled

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From cornrows to locs, Black hair is rooted in identity and culture. Within a specific part of history, hair could indicate a person’s tribe, social position, marital status, or occupation.… Continue

Depth of Field: The Universe of the Daguerreotype

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Charles Fontayne and William S. Porter’s 1848 Cincinnati Riverfront Panorama is both an iconic image and scientific marvel. The human stories within the daguerreotype still live and reveal themselves anew… Continue