"People I Know," photo exhibit by Roberta Stone

Final 2 weeks to see "People I Know."

PEOPLE I KNOW: MULTI-PANEL PORTRAITS, an exhibit of work by Boston & Provincetown-based photographer Roberta Stone.  Ms Stone has participated in photography workshops with David Hilliard, Constantine Manos, and Marian Roth at the summer program of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.  Trained in fine arts early in her career, Roberta has also worked in stained glass.  She has had careers in education, health care administration and real estate as well as her focus on photography. Roberta Stone has been exhibiting her photography throughout New England for close to a decade.

In this show, Stone utilizes diptychs, triptychs and quadtychs in order to convey an extra dimension that cannot be captured in a straight-on shot—two writers whose home is a haven but also a competitive space for each with their piles of published works forming a third presence; a Modern Orthodox Jew performing his morning prayers; a woman looking like a satisfied cat while wearing her favorite leopard prints surrounded by echoes of other big cats. 

The subjects are all friends of the artist.  Some have an icy relationship to the camera while others have an amorous intimacy with the lens.  Whether trying to capture a subject’s pride of place and identity or stepping lightly into their spiritual space, Stone is aware of the privilege of being let in.