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A new photography show with images of the Alewife Reservation will be presented in July and August.

Location:
150 Cambridge Park Drive, Jones, Lang LaSalle (JLL). 

Sponsors of the show include North Cambridge Artists (NoCA), JLL, and Friends of Alewife Reservation Inc.

The three artists in the exhibition will depict wilderness and woodland scenes of the Reservation from their own unique perspectives, which give their individual valuations and spiritual visions of Cambridge’s rare urban wild.

Photographer Brooke Mohnkern highlights ordinary places and structures through film with high resolution negative scanners, using thelatest archival pigment inks.  He attended Bowdoin College and has shown there, as well as locally at the O’Neill Library in Cambridge.  Past photography events include New England Center for Children, Dana Farber Institute, and Coastal Conservation Association.  “Having walked, run, and biked past the entrance many times, I always wondered what lies inside the Reservation.  I believe the Reservation’s natural beauty speaks for itself.  I want people to enter the park motivated by my work – to experience the scene as it is represented.”

John Heymann,a widely shown photographer, editor and teacher, presents throughout New England, taught workshops andhas a silkscreen mural on the MBTA stop.  He has exhibited at Federal Reserve and Boston City Hall.  “I have always been curious about the reservation because I do enjoy photographing landscapes. Recently, in traveling through the southwest on an unattractive highway, I turned into a side route with surprisingly beautiful canyons, and I hope that by stopping to explore locally, the experience will be the same.”

Monique Fischer has been taking photographs since 10 when she received an Olympus PEN (EE-2) camera.  She does digital desktopsystem using fine art watercolor paper with pigmented ink.  Her work is featured in the Cambridge Resident brochure.
“It is great to have a nature park/reserve in an urban environment where one can escape city life for a brief moment. I have been working with a macro lens lately so the idea is to capture the beauty of the reservation at an intimate and personal level.”

An opening will be held Wednesday, July 15 from 4-6pm.  RSVP requested by management by Monday July 13th. 
Please call in advance: 617-415-1884 or 617 354-6449.