New photography exhibit at the UNE Art Gallery celebrates Mainers

Everyday Maine, the current exhibit at UNE’s Art Gallery in Portland, celebrates Mainers with photographs taken by 73 invited photographers from across the state.

The exhibit was recently featured on WCSH and the Bangor Daily News.

"Maine people at work, at play and at home,” is how UNE curator of photography Steve Halpert explained the content of the show to WCSH.

Photographs in the exhibit address the diverse array of identities related to living in Maine, including economic, academic, social, racial, ethnic and geographic forms of identity.

"This whole show I think gives a good, bigger picture of what Maine’s all about and the diversity of what goes on here," UNE Adjunct Photography Professor Tim Greenway told WCSH.

The photographs cover a wide geographic area of the state, from Eliot (close to the New Hampshire border) to Eastport (near Canada).

The images, equally represented in black and white and in color, were selected by Bruce Brown, curator emeritus from the Center of Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, with assistance from Stephen Halpert.

‘Everyday Maine’ was originally exhibited in 2018 at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Augusta.

The exhibit will be on display at UNE's Art Gallery through June 25. 

Read a review in the Bangor Daily News.