Ghent Celebrates Itself at the "All of Us" Reception
Photographer Richard Beaven documented the town of Ghent, New York during its 200th anniversary year.
A healthy percentage of the town of Ghent, New York crowded into Art Omi’s Benenson Center Café on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. Toddlers and teenagers mingled with retired town clerks and career firefighters. They moved along the outside walls of the oblong room, viewing portraits of their neighbors and, often, themselves, taken during the past year by professional photographer and Ghent resident Richard Beaven. The project, All of Us, was a celebration of the town’s bicentennial. The reception was a chance for the town to better get to know one another, as Beaven had done when visiting his 275 subjects, most of whom were strangers to him before he photographed them. The project, says Beaven, was a heartening process of discovery that made him hopeful for the future. Read more about Richard Beaven and All of Us here.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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