'Queer Life' featured in 'What's Not To Love?' exhibit at Photographic Center NW

'Queer Life' featured in 'What's Not To Love?' exhibit at Photographic Center NW

WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE? PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER NORTHWEST 900 12TH AVE THROUGH MARCH 28 Molly Landreth's ongoing photographic project, "Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life In America," will be displayed at the Photographic Center Northwest March 1-28 as part of the "What's Not to Love?" exhibit. Other featured photographers will be Rachel Herman for her series "The Imp of Love," and Jenny Riffle for "The Space In Between." A special artists' reception will take place on March 7 from 6-8 p.m. In "Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America," Molly Landreth's photographs serve as an archive and a journey through a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who bravely offer new visions of what it means to be Queer. Even in a world where progressive attitudes are beginning to take hold, to be "out" and visible, is to become both empowered and vulnerable. Embodiment is about love and the process of growing into ones self and the complexity of relationships found between diverse groups of people. Rachel Herman depicts how love bends but doesn't necessarily break. In her series, "The Imp of Love," Rachel Herman photographs couples who were once lovers but are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined anymore, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively - even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward or confusingly tender. In her series, "The Space In Between," Jenny Riffle investigates the practice of empathy and the psychological spaces of people that surround her and are most dear to her. Drawing attention to small gestures she turns the mundane into the mythical, creating allegorical tableaus that relate the emotional state of her friends and family. For more information, visit www.pcnw.org A Photographic Center Northwest Gallery press release