Co-curated by Kevin Moore and Alice Gray Stites, Museum Director and Chief Curator of 21c Museum Hotels, Shifting Coordinates presents work that blurs the boundaries between race, gender, age, location, and time in photographic representations of identity and the environment. Artists include Slater Bradley, Elmgreen & Dragset, Pierre Gonnord, and Mickalene Thomas.

Drawn from the collection of New York collector and Ohio native Gregory Gooding, After Industry features twentieth century photographs by American and German artists, exploring industry and its impact on landscape from a post-industrial perspective.

After Industry is accompanied by an installation in the street-level gallery by Marlo Pascual, an American artist living and working in New York. A native of Nashville, TN, Pascual creates enigmatic still-lifes featuring found photographs in relation to common objects.

Guest curated by Jeffrey Fraenkel, IMAGE | The Public Face presents a thought-provoking arc of photographic portraiture spanning the meticulously composed and crafted portraits of the early twentieth century to the ubiquitous media-saturated selfies of the twenty-first century.

Peter Happel Christian: Sword of the Sun includes works made at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and performance. Happel Christian examines photography as a fluid method of description or invention, and situates his work as a comprehensive studio of the natural landscape, a complicated place of human experience and contemplation.

Evidence is an exhibition of reproductions from the original 1977 show by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. As a complement to Evidence, a small installation of Mike Mandel’s recent work, made in collaboration with his wife Chantal Zakari and titled Lockdown Archive and Shelter in Plates, is also on view.

This group exhibition includes work by photographers of varying ages and skill levels working in the documentary style, exploring what they “see,” and discovering their voices using the camera.

In collaboration with the Cincinnati Public Library, ArtWorks presents SHINE, a video installation by artist C. Jacqueline Wood. SHINE is a crowd-sourced, media-based projection project aimed to capture a common subject, the sun, from multiple perspectives.

Foto Founders is an invitational exhibition recognizing five influential photographers and educators who have helped to develop the well-respected and thriving photography departments within the Greater Cincinnati region’s academic institutions.

SURFACE, an exhibition and book project by Søren Solkær, is the definitive portrait anthology documenting the world’s most significant street artists and pioneering icons of the urban contemporary scene.

Photographer Gina Weathersby explores her Greek heritage through the medium of photography and the art of glass in this collaborative exhibition with Brazee Street Studios.

Rath’s kinetic sculptures poetically integrate the human element with the advancement of technology. This work incorporates computer-animated still images of human features displayed on LCD screens and mounted on sculptural armatures.

Michals uses long exposures and narrative sequencing to address metaphysical issues, such as memory, mortality, love and loss. He combines painting and photography with nineteenth-century portraiture and twentieth-century modernist references.

A groundbreaking study of the extraordinary photographers in the Lexington Camera Club and the writers, printmakers, and publishers who, with them, formed a flourishing modernist community in Kentucky.

The Poetry of Felix Koch is a collaborative creative writing project between Word Play, Chase Public, and the Cincinnati Museum Center based on the photography of Felix J. Koch.

DATA is an exhibition of work by Franz Jantzen, a Washington, D.C.-based photographer and the Collections Manager for Graphic Arts in the Curator’s Office at the Supreme Court of the United States.

Temporal Existence features the work of four artists whose common theme is the exploration of images that stretch time, collapse time, or otherwise play with our perceptions of what is “real.”

This exhibition brings together the work of more than fifty artists who, since 1970, have used the sun as subject to explore the historical, social, and technological conditions of photography.

New Slideshow is a film exhibition featuring various artists who explore the still photograph as a basic component in longer, often narrative, film. Featured artists include Nan Goldin, William E. Jones, Sophia Peer, Robin Rhode, and John Stezaker.

Roe Ethridge: Nearest Neighbor, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, draws from disparate bodies of work made over the past fifteen years. Shifting fluidly and unapologetically between the realms of commercial, fine art, and personal photography, Ethridge’s work playfully exploits the ambiguous boundaries separating these distinct photographic modes.

Me, Myself, & IRL investigates the tension between material and immaterial, and calls into question the authenticity of an image in the era of Photoshop and the Internet.

This curated exhibition focuses on socially engaged art initiatives that are performed publicly with the explicit intent to exist as video in their final iteration.

Three contemporary photographers utilize alternative and unusual image-making techniques through camera-less photographic methods, computer-manipulated photographic images, and lens-less images using outdated Polaroid 4×5 and 8×10 materials.

Large-scale photographs of obscure locations in Cincinnati on view in vacant storefronts throughout downtown and online. Viewers can visit the project website to learn more about each location and contribute their own images to the living archive of Cincinnati images.

The FoRealism Tribe gives physical form and life to the proliferation of selfies bombarding social media. #SelfieMonster, as exhibition and entity, engages the public in interactive dialogue, performs rituals, and makes appearances during the FotoFocus Biennial 2016.

Ripples Through Time is an imaginative journey in three dimensions using light and color to illuminate the universe in its multiplicity of forms. This exhibition includes twenty photographic works created between 2013 and 2016, including works never before on view.

Exploring photography as a powerful tool in education, i.imagine opened the world of photography to sixty kids for an immersive five-month long project. Students ranging in age from eleven to eighteen discovered photography fundamentals, artistic principles, and the artist within themselves. My Soul as I See It celebrates this photographic adventure of artistic self-discovery.

Color photographs of tribal people in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, near Sudan, are carefully staged, posed and lit, then digitally reworked. Stitching multiple exposures, William Ropp, a native of Cincinnati’s Sister City Nancy, France, shifts or drains the color to create “undocuments.”

Photojournalist Melvin Grier pays tribute to the wonderful world of improvisation and innovation that is Jazz, with performance and behind-the-scenes images of musicians taken at renowned Cincinnati venues.

In this collaborative exhibition between the Lloyd Library and Museum and the Cincinnati Book Arts Society, It’s a Trip reinterprets the unpublished travel photography of library founder Curtis Gates Lloyd.

An international competitive exhibition featuring works of art that are not photography but which convincingly convey the appearance of photography, or the assumed accuracies and truths of the photographic. Submission Deadline is July 29, 2016.

An international competitive exhibition featuring works that are made through the photographic process, but which appear not to be photographic in nature. Submission Deadline is July 29, 2016.

Islands of the Blest presents photographs taken between 1870 and 1970, depicting the American West. The collection on view is selected by artist Bryan Schutmaat and art historian Ashlyn Davis from public archives.

In the Winter of 2012, photographer Caroline Phillippone traveled to the southernmost point of South Korea, to an island called Jeju. Intrigued by the culture and the landscape, Phillippone set out to document the island’s mountainous region, coastal towns and temples in winter over a two week period.

Christy Lee Rogers applies a cunning and unique photographic technique to a mass of human bodies submerged in water during the night, creating refracted light effects naturally in-camera.

Jackie Nickerson: August features portraits made in southern Africa over the past decade, drawn from two bodies of published work: Farm (2002) and Terrain (2013). Both series explore individual identity and farm laborers’ relationship to their environment.

Robin Rhode: Three Films features three short films that combine social activism and poetry: Rocks (2011), A Day in May (2013), and The Moon is Asleep (2016).

Zanele Muholi: Personae explores identity in two distinct bodies of work: Faces and Phases (2006–ongoing), a series of portraits of South African women who identify as lesbian, and Somnyama Ngonyama, a series of self-portraits Muholi began in 2015.

The images in this series are a typological study of the plants, animals, and insects the artist encounters in his day-to-day life, captured by iPhone. White uses commonplace objects to explore ideas of place, cycles of life and death, ecology, and memory.

Each semester, NKU photography students can apply for a competitive internship at Interbrand, the international branding consultants firm. This exhibition showcases the personal projects of each student created during their semester at Interbrand.

Marcus Evans explores issues of social identification and cultural disconnect through the art of photography, moving beyond traditional photo-documentation in an attempt to influence politics and encourage social change.

“Others” are often unseen and unheard. The exhibition features the raw voices, in images and words, of one such outsider group: teens from a subsidized housing community in Covington, Kentucky.

Discover a bit of fantasy in the neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine (OTR). Photographers project their imaginations about OTR as a “wonderland” through cameras and smartphones, utilizing a variety of materials and techniques.

An invitational exhibition of photographic educators from the region who currently teach or have taught photography in Ohio, or who studied photography in one of Ohio’s academic institutions.

In 1981 and 1983, Friedman traveled to Europe to photograph twelve Nazi concentration camps. His full color, large format photographs are unsettling and startling, juxtaposing hallowed ground with modern reality.

This exhibition comprises self-portraits by New York-based photographer Jen Davis, who has spent over a decade turning the camera lens toward herself, as she investigates issues of beauty, identity, and body image.

Forty-one photographs, many of them large-scale “mammoth plates,” capture the American fascination with the Western frontier. Discover natural wonders, such as sweeping canyons and plunging waterfalls, along with manmade marvels like railways and mining structures.

The oldest brick house in Ohio, the Betts House is pleased to host this new exhibition of work by David Parks and Erce Gokhan, offering playful, altered images that transport the audience to imaginative views of real places.

Knipscher uses an experimental and inventive process to generate a photographic image out of light-sensitive paper and repetitive origami folds, which are exposed and unfolded. The resulting image is fixed.

Blind Cinema is a collaborative film experience between seeing children and blindfolded adults. Behind each row of audience members are children from local schools who describe a film only they can see. This project leaves the illusory reality of cinema and re-enters the vivid images of the imagination.

Featuring monumental photographs by artists Edward Burtynsky and Richard Mosse, Ravaged Sublime reveals the ongoing attraction to landscape photography while highlighting the impact and human traces that ravage these landscapes.

Like A Weed is a series of portraits inspired by Victorian photography and culture. The work is a personal reflection by the artist on the hopes and fears of parenting and the balance between embrace, entanglement, and release.

An intimate extension of the street photography genre, emphasizing undocumented moments surrounding documented scenes of Italy and the abstract impact of realistic silver prints, the exhibition is the premiere of Maurice Mattei’s STRANIERO completed series.

Investigating the data and images which emerge from today’s culture of constant supervision, The Peeled Eye seeks to discover and understand how we are being watched and the artists’ response.

Potter-Belmar Labs presents new video work, a nighttime projection experience on the outside of the ArtHub, of ever changing scenes of animated collage figures intermingled, traveling across the surface of the structure.

A multi­media interactive performance told through a series of video vignettes, live narrative, and sound art focuses thematically on our cultural reliance on digital devices and the mental overload that occurs as users attempt to process the never­ending influx of overlapping, paradoxical communication streams, leading in some instances to a state of traumatic paralysis.

Re-streaming Reality #1 by Pierre Derks, comprises four television screens which broadcast pre-recorded footage of streams from unsecured IP-cameras. The attentively selected and edited footage reveals an eerie glimpse of the unprotected surveillance streams that are accessible over the internet.

Christopher Colville’s unique photographic works explore the collision between creation and destruction. Colville ignites gunpowder directly on silver gelatin paper, which burns and exposes the emulsion, producing captivating results.

Continuing her video series Conversations with Photographers, local photographer and video producer Ann Segal exhibits Under One Roof: From Bauhaus to Our House, an intimate conversation with Cincinnati photographers Anita Douthat and Cal Kowal.

Envisioned is a collection of prints created using the bromoil process from digital images by PJ Sturdevant. This approach combines the advantages of modern digital photography with the traditional bromoil technique.

Re-imagine invites local photographers into visual territories not yet explored, to re-examine images previously taken and ask the question: would you take the same approach today?