EVOLUTION: Wábi Arts Focus Fellowship Teen Photography Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: June 26 - July 6, 2025   

Opening Reception: June 26, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: June 29, 12:30pm

Evolution

Evolution is a photographic exploration of transformation—both internal and external—told through the lens of young photographers. The exhibition moves through themes of light and shadow, memory and loss, presence and absence. It weaves together intimate portraits, architectural studies, and conceptual works that ask what it means to grow, to question, to remember, and to become.

Within these images, we witness tenderness and truth: portraits of strangers and family members captured with a gaze of love; images of New Haven’s parks and buildings rendered with reverence and curiosity; blurred photographs that speak to the fragility of memory and what cannot be fully held onto. Family archives emerge as sites of both joy and pain, and self-portraits serve as tools of self-invention—where alter egos become a means to move from doubt into self-assurance.

These works were created by Wábi Arts FOCUS Fellowship Program under the mentorship of photographer and educator Kim Weston. Over the course of the program, students studied the work of contemporary artists such as Priya Kambli, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dawoud Bey, Alec Soth, Leslie Hewitt, and Bill Jacobson.

Featured Artist: 

Mason Booker
Nicholas Clement
Jaylin Ambrose Cooper
Bethany Edwards
Alexandriana S. A. Fuentes    
Tywain Harris 
Snigtha Mohanraj
Abril Rosario 
Nickolas E. Santaella
Wes Weston
Brayden Zawadowski