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Lives through a lens at Hudson’s LightField Festival

by Frances Marion Platt
August 29, 2016
in Art & Music, Stage & Screen
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Tim Davis' Aqueduct Golf (The New Antiquity), 2009,  Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
Tim Davis’ Aqueduct Golf (The New Antiquity), 2009, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery

Envisioned as an annual showcase of innovative and distinguished photography and related media, the LightField Festival officially opened its inaugural exhibition, “Making a Scene: Storytelling and the Real,” last Saturday at the Hudson Opera House. The show presents the work of eight international artists who explore the boundaries of storytelling and the increasing slippage in narrative art between documentary and fiction through photography, film, video and cross-platform installations.

Included in the exhibition are Zackary Canepari’s interactive web series Flint is a Place, which addresses the water crises in Flint, Michigan; the Live, Love, Refugee series by Syrian photographer Omar Imam; Yola Monakhov Stockton’s multimedia bird studies, In the Nature of Imitation; Wendel A. White’s black-and-white photographs of former segregated schools for African Americans; Arne Svenson’s visual essay on surveillance, The Workers; and Anastasia Taylor-Lind’s photojournalism covering the Ukrainian conflict.

The LightField Festival will also include film screenings, public talks and a youth photo workshop. On Saturday, September 3 at 4:30 p.m., the Festival will premiere the short film The Story behind Richard Prince’s Photograph ‘Untitled (Cowboy)’. And at 7 p.m., director Keith Miller will screen and discuss his second feature film, Five Star, a fictionalized story about gang life in Brooklyn starring actual gang members.

On September 17, the Festival continues with a presentation by Bard College associate professor of Photography Tim Davis. Admission to the “Making a Scene” exhibition, which stays open until September 25, and to all other LightField Festival events is free. For more information, call (518) 822-1438 or visit www.hudsonoperahouse.org or www.lightfield.vu. The Hudson Opera House is located at 327 Warren Street in Hudson.

 

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Frances Marion Platt

Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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