06-06 Photography & Memory Workshop w/Diana Salomon

June 6 (Saturday)

3-7pm

Kids/Teens/Tweens/Adults

FREE

This two-part workshop is free to the public and lead by our 2025 Fellow, Diana Salomon!

Participants are invited to first explore the role of family photographs in their own lives through writing and discussion, and then create new portraits inspired by those reflections. Diana will guide you through lighting, posing, and basic photographic techniques using accessible equipment. The art created during this workshop will be displayed in the Studio at Gallery North for visitors to view through the month of June. 

*Participants should bring family recipes, photographs, letters and/or art to share with the collective. 

About our 2025 Fellow, Diana:

Diana is an artist and educator based in Hauppauge, NY, and a proud mother of four. Her work explores memory, identity, and the hidden spaces within family archives, often using photography and performance to construct new narratives from absence. Diana received an MFA from Stony Brook University in 2025, where her thesis exhibition Constructing a Past was shown at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery. Alongside this work, she's been developing Americanized, a project that reflects on assimilation and erasure through altered family photographs. Balancing motherhood and art-making is at the heart of her practice, shaping both the stories she tells and the communities she hopes to reach.