Last Chance to See New York in Benicia

Hurry in to catch a photography exhibit about New York City at the  through Friday.

The Solano Community College photography department is presenting shots of New York taken in June 2010 under the guidance of Prof. Ron Zak.

His students were assigned to forget all preconceived notions of New York — to simply capture the city through their own eyes. Students found Gothic cathedrals, beaches, graffiti, patriotic memorials to those who died in 9/11. The young photographers captured beautiful and intimate images of life in New York City.

In his introduction to the show, Zak wrote, “New York City is glamorous and sophisticated, crowded yet friendly, soulful then soulless; indifferent and dirty, pulsing with a life sometimes lonely and then welcoming, perplexing and then straightforward ... always flowing and pulling at the inhabitants and its visitors.”

Photographers included David Alosi, Cassandra Anderson, Lisa Anderson, Gary Coghlan, Shane Coghlan, Juan Diaz, Courtney McCutcheon, Andreia Melton, Richard Plunk, Michlle Sevier, Karl Sutphin, Mollee Weaver, Blaze Williams, Tracy Williams, Ken Wilson and Zak.

“In exploring the rush of New York City,” Zak says, “...in capturing parts and pieces of a New York moment, in the exploration of others and the place that contains them, we found a little bit of ourselves.”