best-kept secrets and techniques: A Images Exhibit by Eli Kurs-Lasky

best-kept secrets and techniques is a pictures assortment by Eli Kurs-Lasky.

Eli Kurs-Lasky, an Autistic and inventive 30-something, is a author and self-taught photographer. He was born, raised, and continues to stay in Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, and in January 2025, he joined the Pittsburgh Adult Autism Research Community Collaborative Advisory Board (PAARCC), the place he collaborates with others to advance Autism analysis. Eli has additionally been concerned with quite a few tasks for Evolve Coaching, during which he has helped to bolster accessibility by way of creating and modifying each closed captions and audio descriptions.

Eli has all the time thought-about himself an artist however has indulged his artistic aspect much more since coming to phrases with being Autistic. Art provides Eli a option to make sense of an in any other case chaotic and overstimulating world. Eli will placed on his headphones, play music, and discover the town, taking images of no matter catches his eye. Often, Eli does not have a selected vacation spot in thoughts, he simply goes wherever his toes (and his digital camera) lead him.

best-kept secrets and techniques is Eli’s first-ever solo artwork present. When creating an idea for this present, Eli meticulously sifted by way of his seemingly limitless archive of images, on the lookout for the widespread threads that pull his artwork collectively. As somebody who finds inspiration in all kinds of sources and topics, this proved to be a tough process till he got here again to a sentence he wrote in an essay printed in the summertime of 2025 – “My hope is that my work encourages people to look twice at things they otherwise don’t even notice once.” From that, Eli labored backwards, realizing that what catches his eye are the issues that others do not see or appear to note. The title “best kept secrets” is a nod to these issues, and all of the nooks and crannies Eli finds whereas out exploring. He is continually chasing the sensation of satisfaction that comes with making the mundane magical and capturing new views of previous locations.

This artwork present is offered in collaboration with Evolve Coaching.

25% of every sale advantages the Sharpsburg Community Library.

best-kept secrets and techniques can be on view day by day by way of Saturday 6/27.

Join Eli for a Closing Reception on Saturday 6/27, 12pm-1pm. Light refreshments served.

Find Eli on Instagram: @stillcityphotography