Atlanta Photography Group unveils two new reveals

Last week, the Atlanta Photography Group opened two new reveals for viewers to view: “#filmisnotdead 2026,” a celebration of analog images, and “Joy and the Everyday 2026,” an exploration of pleasure in on a regular basis life. Both exhibitions will likely be on show by way of July 17, 2026.

“#filmisnotdead 2026” drew submissions from photographers for a present constructed solely round what movie can do this digital can not. Selections had been made by Michael Behlen, founder and writer of Analog Forever Magazine, who has spent years championing the work of rising and established movie photographers.

Among the artists featured within the movie exhibition is The Atlanta Voice enterprise reporter/photographer Tabius McCoy.

McCoy’s picture was shot outdoors Patchwork City Farms in Atlanta’s Oakland City neighborhood, a part of an extended undertaking documenting Black farmers that he started after transferring again to Atlanta in 2024.

“I began sort of going back to looking at my ancestors,” McCoy mentioned.

The picture, taken in 2024, exhibits a farmer biting right into a radish, an unposed second McCoy mentioned he didn’t direct.

“I didn’t ask him to do that,” McCoy mentioned. “I just kind of waited for the moment.”

McCoy mentioned he had quietly posted the picture on Instagram earlier than deciding to submit it to a film-specific present.

“This is always one of my favorite photos, so why not submit it on film?” McCoy mentioned.

He mentioned he hopes the picture, like the remainder of his ongoing sequence, challenges assumptions about who works the land.

“If you go look up a farmer now on Google, nine times out of 10 are not Black,” McCoy mentioned. “I want people to kind of see that Black people do grow in agriculture, I want every photo to feel like my grandma and granddad’s photo book.”

Another artist featured within the exhibit is Atlanta photographer Calvin Tigre.

Tigre’s picture on show is a double publicity he by no means meant to create. He mentioned he purchased a digicam on Facebook Marketplace that got here loaded with an outdated roll of movie and shot over it, not realizing the roll wasn’t clean.

“I thought my photos were messed up, I thought something had gone wrong because they had been double exposed with something else,” Tigre mentioned. “But upon further inspection, I realized what a gift from the photo gods.”

The picture layers a portrait Tigre shot of his spouse over what seems to be a German citadel, captured by a stranger years earlier than Tigre was born.

“My composition and the original photographer’s composition lined up perfectly to create what you see,” Tigre mentioned.

Tigre, who has shot movie for about six years, now seeks out deserted rolls by way of his part-time job at a digicam retailer and intentionally shoots over them, with out realizing what’s going to floor.

“Sometimes it’s ugly, but in a beautiful way as well,” Tigre mentioned.

He mentioned the layered impact is just potential due to how lengthy the unique movie sat unused.

“The first exposure sat on that roll of film for 30, 40, 50 years until I came along and shot over the top of it, and then developed it,” Tigre mentioned. “So it’s only doable on the analog medium.”

The second exhibition, “Joy and the Everyday 2026,” was juried by Emilia Mickevicius, Ph.D., Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography on the Center for Creative Photography. The present explores how photographers discover and seize pleasure in unusual life, whether or not by way of a putting view, a quiet avenue scene, or an object somebody holds pricey.

Genesis Tillman, a 29-year-old Atlanta-based photographer who paperwork occasions in a gonzo journalism type, is exhibiting with the Atlanta Photography Group for the primary time. His picture was taken at Bimbo Con, an annual occasion in Asheville centered on queer advocacy and hurt discount.

“There will basically be tables where they’ll pass out pamphlets on things going on in Nashville that a lot of people aren’t really talking about, or even just in Appalachia, or in the country,” Tillman mentioned.

Tillman mentioned previous editions of the occasion have included sport-oriented programming, and this yr’s gathering featured wrestling, with a tie-in to the Pride Wrestling Alliance.

“It was really, really cool, and nice to see a lot of people kind of make that happen,” Tillman mentioned.

He mentioned his picture speaks to the present’s theme by way of resilience.

“When it comes to being queer in general, a lot of people’s bodies and livelihoods are essentially at risk,” Tillman mentioned. “Bimbo Con itself was pretty much people just doing a lot more with less.”

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