IU Southeast Library showcasing 20 years of Leslie Doyle images: IU Southeast : Indiana University

New Albany, Ind. – The IU Southeast library is showcasing Twenty Years of Photography by Leslie Doyle in a present opening Thursday June 11, 2026, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on the library’s Art Gallery.

The exhibition represents twenty years of exploring compositional area and the technical limits of the digicam. Driven by a deep fascination with the formal parts of line, form, coloration, and texture, Doyle’s work brings collectively two distinct collection that look at how lenses and software program can body a actuality we can’t see on our personal.

The Light Series explores the intersection of formal artwork ideas and the distinctive mechanics of the lens. By capturing bokeh–a visible phenomenon the human eye can’t understand in isolation–these pictures body a actuality that exists solely by means of the digicam’s functionality.

The timing of the present got here collectively when Melanie Hughes on the IU Southeast Library provided Doyle the gallery area for the summer season.

“Reaching the 20-year mark in my photography is a great personal milestone, but it was really Melanie’s invitation that gave me the push to step back, pull this work together, and share it in a physical space on campus,” stated Doyle.

Doyle says she’s at all times been an artist at coronary heart and has explored a number of completely different media. She first fell in love with images at Morehead State University whereas working with movie in a conventional darkroom.

“The calmness of that process was from start to finish is what appealed most to me. But what really anchored me to the medium is its democratic nature—it’s a process that invites everyone to be creative. That accessibility is why I’m still so devoted to it 20 years later.”

Between instructing graphic design, directing the coed Design Center, and household life, Doyle’s days are largely targeted on guiding her college students and elevating her daughter.

She has maintained a every day cellular images apply for over 1,500 consecutive days, which carves out a peaceful, inventive area that’s fully her personal.

“Artistically, it has sharpened my vision immensely. Carrying that ‘pocket studio’ forces me to constantly seek out the foundational elements of design—line, shape, and texture—in my everyday environment, and it has taught me to appreciate unseen realities that exist just beyond our natural perception.”