News: July 2026
At a Kingston Arts Center, Inaugural Biennial Showcases the Hudson Valley’s Photography Boom
Article by: Mat moment
“Can you call this the Hudson River School of Photography?”
That’s the question museumgoers keep asking at the Upstate Photography Biennial, an exhibition of 39 photographers living and working across the Hudson Valley and Upstate New York. Such reactions invoke the Hudson River School, a 19th-century movement of landscape painters like Frederic Church and Thomas Cole, and draw comparison between the regional concentration of painters then and the thriving community of photographers here today.
Currently on view at Kingston’s CPW is its inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial, featuring 39 artists working across the Hudson Valley and Upstate New York. (Photographs by Adrianna Ault, documented by Ryan Rusiecki)
July 11 to August 8, 2026
Making a book is a process of transformation. Ideas are tested, revised, abandoned, and rediscovered as a project moves from conception to publication. The path is rarely direct, and the finished book often reveals only a fraction of the work that brought it into being.
Bound: The Making of a Photobook celebrates the many stages of the development of photobooks by presenting examples of bookmaking from book dummy to final publication. Whether created as a singular object or produced in a large edition, behind each book is a unique process of experimentation, decision-making, compromise, and craft.
This exhibition showcases student-made books from many of the classes and workshops that CPW has offered over the last year, taught by artists Adrianna Ault, Raymond Meeks, and Vladimir Nahitchevansky. Also included are books made by students from Bard College, who worked closely with faculty in the Photography Program to produce a photobook their senior year. These books made across CPW and Bard College photography communities highlight the interdisciplinary, experimental, and collaborative nature of photobookmaking.
CPW: Community Gallery
On the weekend of the 9ht of August CPW will host a fair, some of my students from CPW who took part of Art of the Photobook will talk about their experience in the making of their photobooks. It will take place on Saturday at 3:00PM, I will also be joining a QNA regarding their books and learning experience, there will many other great photographers participating so don’t miss out and come by
CPW: Photobook and Zine Fair
August 8-9, 2026
