Alum Rick Schatzberg GS'15 has a solo show Twenty Two North at The Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT.
Route 22 is a mostly rural, two-lane highway that runs from the Bronx to the Canadian border, all within New York State. With his camera, Brooklyn and Norfolk resident Rick Schatzberg has explored the towns and countryside of its entire length, looking at it as a river made of asphalt and time. “We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else,” poet William Carlos Williams wrote in a review of Walker Evans’ classic, American Photographs. For Rick, this modest landscape not far from home is as good a place to learn to see as anywhere, to recognize what is exceptional about the seemingly ordinary.