See Mercer County Photography 2024

Posted in Exhibits, Past Exhibits

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

  • JUROR: Gary D. Saretzky
  • On view October 12 – December 1
  • Opening Reception October 13, 2-5 pm; Awards announced 3:45 pm
  • Image: Watching Your Back, by Nigel Rivera

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.

AWARDS: Monetary and merit awards include: Best in Show, Juror’s Choice, Honorable Mentions, and Mercer County Purchase Awards.

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.