Preview Our Booth at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD

Welcome to a Preview of Our Booth & Program Schedule

April 23 - 27, 2025

Park Avenue Armory

643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065

Booth B04

Opening April 23, 2025 is the 45th edition of The Photography Show presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The Photography Show is the longest running and foremost commercial exhibition dedicated to the photographic medium.

In our booth, we are excited to share new work by Rashod Taylor, Douglas Miles, Lynn Stern and Louviere+Vanessa, as well as hand-painted gelatin silver prints by Brigitte Carnochan and vintage platinum prints by Laura Gilpin.

We will also hold talks with Rashod Taylor and Lynn Stern in our booth during the Fair. See below for more in-depth information.

Brigitte Carnochan

Brigitte Carnochan is an avid gardener, which supplies her with many of her floral subjects of which she hand paints on traditional silver gelatin prints, imbuing them with subtle color palettes and exquisite results. “Even though most people see the world in color, they do not see everything in the same exact colors. From an optical point of view, the colors we see depend on where we stand in relation to the object, where the sun is on the horizon, what color the walls are, or the tint of our glasses (or contact lenses), and so on. From a psychological point of view--everything depends on whether we are worried, elated, anxious, in love, lonely, distracted, or fully alert. For this reason, I often hand color my work, because the process allows me to interpret the essence of my subject according to my own imagination.”

Brigitte Carnochan, Gardenia in Yellow Pot, 2000, 14.5 x 9.5”, hand painted gelatin silver print, edition of 50.

Brigitte Carnochan, Magnolia III, 2006, 14.5 x 14.5”, hand painted gelatin silver print, edition of 25.

Laura Gilpin

Born in Colorado, Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) attended a Connecticut preparatory school to study music and later the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York. Study with White led her to initially embrace a pictorialist style that emphasized beauty and artistic creation over photography’s documentary qualities. As photography advanced in the early decades of the 20th century, Gilpin turned away from the Pictorialist-inspired images and began taking “straight photographs.” In a field traditionally championed by men, Gilpin was one of the first women to capture the landscape of the West becoming widely known for her extended documentation of the Southwestern landscape and the Diné (Navajo) people. We are thrilled to carry two vintage platinum palladium prints in the booth as well as few gelatin silver prints as well.

Laura Gilpin, Colorado Sand Dunes, 1920, 7.25 x 9", vintage platinum palladium print, signed print verso.

Laura Gilpin, Iris, 1924, 8.75 x 6.75", vintage platinum palladium print, signed and dated in pencil on the mount.

Laura Gilpin, Sunrise from Lukachukai mountains, Arizona, 1932, 10.25 x 12.75", gelatin silver print, original studio label mount verso.

Louviere + Vanessa

Louviere+Vanessa’s work draws on the Southern Gothic traditions resulting in their own style of unique process that includes innovative uses of mixed media and photography. Their latest work Dust of the Stars, delves into the delicate interplay between human life and the cosmos.

Our latest series “Dust of the Stars” explores the intrinsic connection between the celestial and the earthly. We have created a unique medium by combining bone and water to form handmade bio plastics, symbolizing the organic and the intangible. These images represent what the natural world is made of: bone, water, cartilage, the essence of life and a symbol of fluidity and change. Bone and water then come together again to fuse these images into a state of permanence, something the living world is not afforded. - L+V

Each piece is finished with a gilt varnish, infusing the work with a subtle luminosity that is a reminder of the divine spark within all matter, connecting the mundane with the transcendent. With images printed on Kozo paper embedded in homemade bio plastic with gold paint, they recess off the wall with magnets resulting in a unique, photo-based object.

Louviere+Vanessa, Survival is the Exception, from Dust of the Stars, 2025, 40 x 29”, Inkjet on kozo, homemade bio plastic and gold paint. Four panel, unique variant from edition of 3.

Louviere+Vanessa, Each are from Dust of the Stars, 2025, 7 x 7”, Inkjet on kozo, homemade bio plastic and gold paint, unique variant from edition of 5.

Louviere+Vanessa, Each are from Dust of the Stars, 2025, 14 x 20”, Inkjet on kozo, homemade bio plastic and gold paint, unique variant from edition of 3

Douglas Miles

San Carlos Apache-Akimel O’odham artist Douglas Miles artistic work is rooted in Apache history and deeply engaged with the world of contemporary pop culture. He is a multi-faceted artist working as a designer, filmmaker, muralist and photographer who blends Native history with political resistance and encourages reflection on how art can foster community-building and promote pride and well-being, especially among young Native people. By appropriating online early images of Apache Native Americans and juxtaposing them with his own contemporary photographs of his Apache community, Douglas brings us from the past to the present day in a two-dimensional image but creating a three-dimensional reality. The contrast of his sharp contemporary imagery made with his hand-held smart phone, alongside often pixelated images found online of early Native American portraits, the viewer is transported through time, both viscerally and literally.

Douglas Miles, Each are From the Future Intercept Series, 2021 or the Res Skate Demo Series,, 12 x 10" Archival pigment ink print, edition of 10.

Douglas Miles, From the Res Skate Demo Series, 2024, 18 x 14" Archival pigment ink print, edition of 10.

Douglas Miles, From the Res Skate Demo Series, 2024, 24 x 20" Archival pigment ink print, edition of 10.

Lynn Stern

Lynn Stern, the convention-defying, New York-based, American photographer, has pushed the boundaries of photography during her 47-year career. Her work is intimately tied to the history of the photographic medium through her innovative use of natural light, still life, and large-format cameras and film. The primary focus of Lynn Stern’s black-and-white film photography is luminosity and she uses exclusively natural, indirect light, making it the subject of her images rather than the means by which to illuminate. Since 1985, Stern has been using a translucent scrim to create a quality of light that is immaterial and filled with energy. She has been working with abstraction for decades, sometimes using the scrim alone to create completely non-objective images, and sometimes combining it with glass objects that merge with the fabric; in these images, the objects are not important as subject matter, instead becoming elements within a composition of light and ambiguous space.

Lynn Stern. Quickening 19-35a, 2019, 48 x 38", Archival inkjet pigment print. Edition of 6.

Lynn Stern. Force Field 19-53, 2019 (2021), 29.5 x 34" Archival inkjet pigment print. Edition of 6.

Meet & Greet with Lynn

@ Obscura Gallery, AIPAD Booth B04

Saturday, April 26, 4pm

AIPAD Talks

Watch the recorded conversation with Lynn Stern and Associate Curator, George Eastman Museum, Phil Taylor

Rashod Taylor

Rashod Taylor’s work addresses themes of family, race, culture and legacy and are a window into the Black American experience. His most recent works are landscapes from the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, in the medium of large format wet plate collodion tintypes. In Rashod’s words, My America is a meditation on history and its undeniable grip on the present. As a Black man with deep family ties to military service, my great-uncle Lecky Taylor served in WWII, alongside many of my cousins in future generations, I often ask, what is patriotism? How does one fight for a country that denies them dignity? This tension runs through my work, exposing the ways racism, inequality, and injustice are not relics of the past but forces still shaping Black life today."

"Using the wet plate collodion process, I create tintypes ranging from 8x10 to 20x24 inches, each plate a singular, unrepeatable object. The most recent large-scale works magnify every detail within the frame, demanding deeper engagement. The landscapes of Ossabaw Island and the Whitney Plantation hold the weight of history. I walked these lands knowing my ancestors suffered there. I sat inside the Whitney Plantation jail, where enslaved people were once confined, I felt the crushing reality that captivity and control have simply taken on new forms such as mass incarceration, redlining and economic disparity."

Rashod Will Speak About This New Work

@ Obscura Gallery, AIPAD Booth B04

Thursday, April 24, 4pm

Rashod Taylor, Oak Tree, Whitney Plantation, 2024, 20 x 24”, wet plate collodion tintype, Unique 1 of 1.

Rashod Taylor, Sugar Cane, Whitney Plantation, 2024, 20 x 24”, wet plate collodion tintype, Unique 1 of 1.

Rashod Taylor, Jail, Whitney Plantation, 2024, 20 x 24”, wet plate collodion tintype, Unique 1 of 1.

In the AIPAD Media Lounge:

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson, Larissa in Gold, from the series Light Warriors, c. 1990 (printed 2025)., 45.5 x 40″, dye sublimation on aluminum, AP

In collaboration with AIPAD Partner Vivid Metal Prints, we will have a large-format print by Obscura Gallery artist Joyce Tenneson hanging in the AIPAD Media Lounge. Tenneson’s Light Warriors is an iconic portraiture series characterized by an investigation of female archetypes which she explored through the use of a 20 x 24” Polaroid camera and film, and resulted in the book of the same name, published in 2000.

Danny Lyon

Aperture Book Signing

AIPAD Media Lounge

Saturday, April 26, 2pm

A new book by legendary photographer Danny Lyon explores the beauty of once-beloved, now-decaying cars found in junkyards across America. A work of pure visual photography,Junk: America in Ruins (Damiani Books, 2025) features images of more than 80 American cars, mostly from the 1950s and 1960s, that Lyon discovered in forgotten junkyards on travels through Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma.

Lyon is one of the most influential photographers of the last six decades and a key figure of New Journalism, whose immersive and groundbreaking works include The Bikeriders (1968), The Destruction of Lower Manhattan (1969), and the memoir This Is My Life I’m Talking About (Damiani Books, 2024).

(Mark your calendars!

We will hold a book signing for Danny at Obscura Gallery this Summer

June 28, 12:30 - 2:30pm)