Prof. Ludak to Exhibit at Vermont Center for Photography | News

Mark Ludak, MFA, assistant professor within the Department of Art and Design, will exhibit “Charlottesville Street After Unite the Right Rally” within the exhibition “Why We Look: Questioning the World Before Us” on the Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro, VT, March 6 by way of April 26, in VCP’s Main Gallery.

This 12 months’s juried exhibition invited photographers to look outward—questioning the social, political, and environmental forces that form our world. The chosen works confront how we see, what we overlook, and the truths that demand our consideration in a time of cultural and ecological reckoning.

The exhibition options pictures that grapple with the current: portraits addressing work, id, and energy; scenes at borders and in neighborhoods; landscapes marked by local weather, extraction, or restoration; the constructed programs—water, housing, transit—that form each day life; moments of protest and civic care; and conceptual work that questions proof, authorship, or reminiscence. Each of the photographers asks viewers to contemplate not solely what we take a look at, but in addition when, how, and the place that occurs, and—most significantly—why. 

The present of 40 photographers was juried by Marvin Heiferman, a curator, author, editor, and producer. Heifeman organizes exhibitions and on-line tasks about pictures and visible tradition for venues which have included: The Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, International Center of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New Museum, Castelli Graphics/Photography, and LIGHT Gallery. Author of 15 books, together with “Photography Changes Everything” (2012 Smithsonian/Aperture) and “Seeing Science” (2019 Aperture/UMBC), Heiferman has contributed essays and articles to quite a few artist monographs, museum catalogs, commerce publications, magazines, and media retailers, together with The New York Times, CNN, Artforum, Gagosian Quarterly, Aperture, Art in America, and BOMB. Books edited embody “Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images” by Maurice Berger (2024 Aperture/New York Times) and Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” (1986 Aperture).