Opening Reception: Alone Together: Critical Mass 2023 Top 50

Alone Together
opening reception: Saturday, February 24, 5-8 pm
on view: February 24–April 13, 2024

Enjoy world-class photography by the top fifty winners of the legendary Critical Mass international photography competition, on display at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s new space in Denver February 24–April 13, 2024.

Curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith, Director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography, Alone Together features outstanding works by fifty artists from ten countries.

While subjects and styles vary, the common thread is “alone-ness” – not to be confused with loneliness, says Boetker-Smith. “For most photographers, the act of making an image, the moment itself, is one of ‘happy solitude’ (to borrow from Raymond Depardon). Photography gives us the opportunity to embrace alone-ness, in that moment a split second of silence, a decision, an intake of breath and the release of the shutter. Simultaneously photographs always exist in a state of flux…The photographer, the subject, and the photograph itself are all alone together or somewhere in-between.”

The exhibition and opening reception are free to attend.

Image credit: “Ewan: Husband, Father, Provider, Carer, Support” Copyright Lisa Murray