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Reggie Greene is a Rochester-based photographer. He's worked for Kodak as a camera designer, and was attracted there by his passion for photography after graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Carrying his love of photography into retirement, he started exploring urban landscape photography, particularly at night. He's currently exploring the effects of artificial light on manmade structures and nature. He's graciously allowe

How has Rochester influenced your work? It’s been kind of a roundabout way of getting to that, because I grew up in Manhattan, so it's like, I suppose that's the epicenter, sort of in this country, or one of them. But I hate lots and lots of people and I hate pretense, and I hate everything it stands for. So I was able to get a fabulous education down there. I went to a wonderful art school that I could not have gotten here, and then came here. So how has Rochester influenced

At the Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (RoCo) on March 6th, a new exhibit opened titled “Authenticity as Illusion.” The exhibit features two videos: one done in stop-motion animation of clay puppets and the other a video performance piece. The exhibit was curated by Myles Calvert, the director of the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. It’s in a little viewing room at the back of the gallery on the right through the black curtains. I went there on opening n

desire to long or hope for; to crave; to wish for an impulse towards that which promises enjoyment, satisfaction, or satiation abundance great quantity; plentifulness; wealth lavish display or supply of valuable material possessions or resources These two definitions are at the back of the information pamphlet for the Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life exhibit at the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG). I was surprised when I first walked into the gallery and fo