Photograph by Joe Warfel
In collaboration with photographer Billy Hickey, Green Street Photo Collective invites artists to submit photos that represent the theme of fear in our upcoming show, PHOBIAS.
PHOBIAS will be a salon-style exhibition that transforms Green Street Photo Collective's gallery space into a physical catalog of fear — covering the walls with photographs of the things people are afraid and/or how those fears make them feel. This collaborative group show encourages photographers and viewers to engage with fear, to be brave, and analyze the emotion and its causes.
In a month associated with all things scary, PHOBIAS calls on us to look deeper, asking why and getting to the heart of something we all feel, but rarely put to words, and almost never put to visuals.
Billy Hickey is a nature photographer from Massachusetts. He has spent most of his life afraid of spiders and photos of their faces.
In his personal work Billy makes stories about the intersections of the natural and human worlds covering topics such as falconry, light pollution, fireflies, and goats. Billy’s passion is learning about nature and sharing its wonders through photography with the hope to educate and inspire. In 2020 he graduated from the International Center of Photography and his project “How We Were” won first place in Lensculture’s Black and White Photography Awards. Billy’s work has been featured in the Eastern Mass. Hawkwatch’s Newsletter, The Wall Street Journal, STAT News, and the New York Times. From Spring 2023 until Spring 2024, he was an Artist-in-Residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. During this time Billy made An Uncommon Inheritance which looks at the ecosystem formed in the Cemetery that is shared by human, animals, plant, and fungus alike. He is based in Watertown, Massachusetts, available for assignments around New England
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This event is a part of a wider Jamaica Plain First Fridays initiative. Check out other galleries and art spaces opening their doors for an evening of art, community, and conversation at firstfridaysjp.com.
This event is BYOB, snacks and light refreshments will be served.