AMY ARBUS has published four books, including the award winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called her most recent, The Fourth Wall, her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, People, Dazed and Confused and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, Maine Media Workshops and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has had twenty-one solo exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part of the collection of The New York Public Library and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. For this exhibition she will present new color photographs, part of an ongoing series, Rites and Rituals, that she has been working on since 2001.

‘I am documenting the faces of our time. It is a sociological study, if unscientific, of our ceremonies, customs and rites of passage. Included are portraits of people in parades, marching bands, contests, feasts, festivals and re-enactments. I hope to capture what is timeless, timely and fleeting. For the first time I was intrigued by the notion of having people in the background as witnesses, intentionally not in sharp focus, to give context to the portrait, which was made in an otherwise anonymous location. ‘