Mercer County Photography 2024

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Trenton City Museum October 12 – December 1, 2024

Returning for the second time to Trenton City Museum, it’s the biennial juried Mercer County Photography exhibition!

Calling all photographers who live, work, and/or study in Mercer County, NJ: Enter up to two photographs for consideration by 2024 Juror Gary D. Saretsky. In 2022, work by photographers from every municipality in Mercer County filled the beautiful walls of Trenton City Museum’s art galleries. Enter this year and yours could be in the show!

  • JUROR: Gary D. Saretsky
  • Enter in person Saturday, October 5, 9:30 to noon at Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, located in Cadwalader Park
  • Entry is open to all amateur or professional photographers age 18 or above who live, work, and/or study in Mercer County, New Jersey
  • Image: Rosedale Lake Trees, by Susan Jacobsen, from the 2022 show
Prospectus available to download soon

Juror Gary D. Saretzky, archivist, educator, and photographer, taught photography and the history of photography at Mercer County Community College from 1977 to 2012. He also served as Monmouth County Archivist (1994-2019) and Coordinator of the Public History Internship Program, Rutgers University History Department (1994-2016).  His past photography exhibits include “Dreams of Italy” at Ellarslie in 1998 and a retrospective at the Rider University Art Gallery in 2007. Substantial collections of his photographs of blues musicians are at the Blues Archives at the University of Mississippi and the Trenton Free Public Library. Saretzky has self-published two books of his photographs of blues musicians and as a photographer is a member of the Blues Hall of Fame. He co-curated the Margaret Bourke-White: In Print exhibit at Rutgers in 2006 and the 2024 Grant Castner photo exhibit at the New Jersey State Museum. Saretzky lectures regularly on the history of photography, has published more than 100 journal articles and reviews, and continues to photograph.

This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Division, through a grant from the NJ State Council on the Arts. The show is a co-sponsored project of the Division and Trenton City Museum.