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— Sidney and Michelle Monroe
Ryan Vizzions has been photographing items left behind at the memorial for Renee Macklin Good, who was fatally shot by a federal agent in January in Minneapolis. Ben Hovland | MPR News
Nearly three months after Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, a dedicated group of volunteers still watches over the site daily. They’re thinking now about the future of the memorial there as they archive what mourners have left behind.
“It's really important for me … to make sure that we preserve these items for future generations,” said Ryan Vizzions, a volunteer who’s been living for months in his van with his dog, Freedom.
Vizzions is collecting and documenting signs, stuffed animals, hats and candles from the memorial in a garage a few minutes' drive away — a space provided by someone he met through social media.
It's a cozy space. There are large boxes of signs, each neatly labeled by size. Some of them had been outside for months and needed to be dried out before Vizzions could photograph them.
He has a box of small items he hasn’t gotten to yet: handmade bracelets, small trinkets. Archiving requires attention to detail.
It isn't clear what will happen to the materials once they're photographed and archived.
For the pair, the fire reiterated the need to protect and preserve the memorial. Visitors continue to show up daily with letters, flowers, candles and signs.
Caretakers have created a path at the vigil site with mulch and stone pavers. They hope to plant flowers now that it's warm outside.
Vizzions said it’s a balance between trying to honor Macklin Good while also honoring the community that lives immediately around the memorial.
For the pair, the fire reiterated the need to protect and preserve the memorial. Visitors continue to show up daily with letters, flowers, candles and signs.
Caretakers have created a path at the vigil site with mulch and stone pavers. They hope to plant flowers now that it's warm outside.
Vizzions said it’s a balance between trying to honor Macklin Good while also honoring the community that lives immediately around the memorial.
Monroe Gallery will exhibit a selection of Ryan Vizzions' photographs from Minneapolis at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, April 22-26 in booth B10.
View of the 2025 edition of AIPAD's Photography Show.
Photo Erica Price
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has named the 77 exhibitors that will participate in the upcoming edition of the Photography Show. The annual fair will return to the Park Avenue Armory in New York, running April 22–26.
This year’s fair will include a number of the world’s top photography-focused galleries, including Edwynn Houk Gallery, Yancey Richardson, Robert Mann Gallery, and Higher Pictures. First-time exhibitors, including Ruiz-Healy Art, Leica Gallery New York, and Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, will also feature in the fair.
The 2026 iteration of the fair will also focus on increasing its gender parity, per a release; a third of the exhibitors are women-led, women-founded, or both.
The fair will also introduce a new section, titled “Focal Point,” which will be dedicated to solo presentations for artists focused on lens-based photography to “showcase how artists have historically expanded our collective understanding of what photography is and how contemporary artists continue to show us what it can become,” per a release. This section of the fair will be designed by architecture firm Oficina.la.
Additionally, AIPAD will give artist, scholar, and NYU professor Deborah Willis its 2026 AIPAD Award, which will be presented during the VIP opening on April 22. A winner of both the MacArthur “Genius” Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Willis joined NYU in 2000 and has chaired the Department of Photography and Imagining in the Tisch School of the Arts for nearly two decades. She is the author or editor of several landmark publications on Black photography, including Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (1996), Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers – 1840 to the Present (2000), and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (2009).
The full exhibitor list follows below.
Main Sector
Exhibitor Location(s) 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop New York, NY Alta Anyós, Andorra Augusta Edwards Fine Art London, UK Bildhalle Zurich, Switzerland | Amsterdam, the Netherlands Bruce Silverstein New York, NY Catherine Couturier Gallery Houston, TX Cavalier Galleries New York, NY | Greenwich, CT | Nantucket, MA | Palm Beach, FL Charles Isaacs Photographs New York, NY CLAMP New York, NY Curatorial Gallery London, United Kingdom Daniel / Oliver Gallery Brooklyn, NY Danziger Gallery New York, NY Deborah Bell Photographs New York, NY Echo Fine Arts Cannes, France Edwynn Houk Gallery New York, NY Form. Gallery Dinard, France Galerie Olivier Waltman Miami, FL | Paris, France Galerie XII Los Angeles, CA | Paris, France Galerie Esther Woerdehoff Paris, France Galerie Sophie Scheidecker Paris, France Gana Art Seoul, South Korea | Los Angeles, CA Gilman Contemporary Ketchum, ID Gitterman Gallery New York, NY Gregory Leroy Madrid, Spain HackelBury London, United Kingdom Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc. New York, NY Higher Pictures Brooklyn, NY Holden Luntz Palm Beach, FL Howard Greenberg Gallery New York, NY The Hulett Collection Tulsa, OK IBASHO Antwerp, Belgium Ilaria Quadrani Fine Art New York, NY
IN-DEPENDANCE by IBASHO Antwerp, Belgium
INTHEGALLERY Copenhagen, Denmark | Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Jackson Fine Art Atlanta, GA
Janet Borden Inc. Brooklyn, NY jdc Fine Art San Diego, CA Keith de Lellis Gallery New York, NY LARGE GLASS London, UK Leica Gallery New York New York, NY Marshall Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Michael Hoppen London, United Kingdom Michael Shapiro Photographs Westport, CT Momentum Miami, FL Monroe Gallery of Photography Santa Fe, NM Nailya Alexander Gallery New York, NY Obscura Gallery Santa Fe, NM Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. San Francisco, CA POLKA Galerie Paris, France Robert Klein Gallery Boston, MA Robert Koch Gallery San Francisco, CA Robert Mann Gallery New York, NY Rolf Gallery Buenos Aires, Argentina Ruiz-Healy Art New York, NY | San Antonio, TX Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. Santa Fe, NM Scott Nichols Gallery Sonoma, CA Staley-Wise Gallery New York, NY Stephen Bulger Gallery Toronto, ON Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago, IL Throckmorton Fine Art New York, NY Toluca Fine Art Paris, France Vasari Buenos Aires, Argentina Von Lintel Gallery Los Angeles, CA Yancey Richardson New York, NY
Focal Point Sector Exhibitor Location(s) Artist(s) Be Fine Art Gallery Chiayi and Taipei City, Taiwan Hsu-Pin Lee Central Server Works Los Angeles, CA Lenard Smith Duncan Miller Gallery Los Angeles, CA Jacqueline Woods ELLEPHANT Montreal, Quebec, Canada JJ Levine Glaz Gallery Moscow, Russia Zhenya Mironov Galerie Catherine et André Hug Paris, France Susan Burnstine L. Parker Stephenson Photographs New York, NY Ray Mortenson LAS Contemporary Nashville, TN Chrissy Lush M77 Gallery Milan, Italy Nino Migliori Obscura Gallery Santa Fe, NM Paul Caponigro + John Paul Caponigro Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Ltd Brighton, UK Baud Postma SoMad New York, NY Yi Hsuan Lai Thomas Erben Gallery New York, NY Olivia Reavey
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2019 Charlotte, North Carolina Pride Parade, August 18, 2019
Grant Baldwin's photograph is in our exhibit at The AIPAD Photograph Show in New York City this weekend, March 30 - April 2, booth #114, Center 415, 415 5 Avenue.
Sonia Handelman Meyer/Courtesy of Monroe Gallery of Photography
Boy in mask, New York City, c.1946-1950. Gelatin silver print.
SANTA FE, NM.- Monroe Gallery of Photography has announced its representation of the Sonia Handelman Estate, and will exhibit a selection of lifetime and vintage prints at the 2023 AIPAD Photography Show in New York City March 31-April 2 and present a 2-person exhibit with Ida Wyman: “Pioneering Women of The Photo League” at Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe, April 21-June 18, 2023.
The Photo League was a collective of photographers active between 1936-1951 who believed their work could change poor social conditions and champion photography as an art form in the process. The Photo League thrived as one of the most progressive, dynamic and creative centers for photography in America, and was unusual in its time as many of the collective’s members were women. In the 1940s when McCarthyism started gathering momentum in the US, suspicious authorities decided to clamp down on the Photo League’s confrontational and uncensored representations of urban American society. In 1948, it was declared a subversive organization and blacklisted. As the league’s secretary at the time, Sonia Handelman Meyer answered the office phone when requests for comment about the accusations poured in from the media. “It got to be too much,” she told The New York Times. “They were blacklisting people”.
Sonia Handelman was born on Feb. 12, 1920, in Lakewood, N.J., and grew up in New York City. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. After graduating college in 1941, Handelman Meyer worked during World War II in the Office of War Information for the U.S. Signal Corps in Puerto Rico, and the Office of War Information in New York, and then at a news photography agency. In 1943 she joined the Photo League, where she studied with John Ebstel and Sid Grossman. She also served as secretary (the only paid position at the League) and, in 1948-50, as chair of the Hine Committee. She participated in several group exhibitions, including "This Is the Photo League" (1948–49). Handelman Meyer collaborated with Morris Huberland on a photographic series of Sydenham Hospital in Harlem (1947) and photographed in neighborhoods throughout New York. She later documented the Weavers, the American folk group that included Pete Seeger. Her photographs appeared in The New York Times (1947–48) and U.S. Camera Annual (1947). Her photographs also appeared in the exhibition "Photographic Crossroads: The Photo League" at the International Center of Photography, New York (1978) and "The Women of Photo League" at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York (2009).
Sonia Handelman Meyer died on September 11, 2022, at her home in Charlotte, N.C., at age 102.
Sonia Handelman Meyer’s work went unrecognized for decades. In recent years, there has been a revived interest in the radical collective that contributed incomparably towards promoting early street photography as an art form.
