Best of 2008 Photo Show @ Harrison Street Coffee Shop is a collective gathering of people who enjoy good coffee and foods prepared by a local venue. Above each booth is a photograph and upstairs contains the vast majority of the show. It's hard to get a look at the photographs in the lower part of the shop since the booths are commonly enjoyed by patrons. Upstairs you can get a good close look of the work on display. Harrison Street even has their own blog here.
Some of the artists I looked at included:
Hassan Pitts
Kimberly Frost kimberlyfrost.com
Tony Lynch dawngondog.org
The show could be thought of as your refrigerator's front door but larger. Interesting photos stuck to the front to be viewed until they get covered up by more recent interesting photos.
Going with that theme I would say many of the works could use some help being mounted as at least half of the ones I viewed were sagging in their frames. The show did allow for local artists to be displayed among other local artists to give onlookers a view into what interests Richmond's local photographers. Ranging in traditional black and white prints to digital photos the show had a vast array of techniques and subject matter. The unpolished work is somewhat inspirational in seeing raw works of pure interest and maybe not so much finished works of fine art.
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