The elsewhere exhibition, juried by Kevin Tully, was in the online gallery from April 25 to June 5, 2025.  Kevin selected forty seven images from thirty seven artists for the exhibition. Glen Serbin’s image Dune Study received the Juror’s Award. Anne Walker’s image Threshold received the Director’s Award.

Juror’s Statement

I am very proud of these images. It was very gratifying and pleasing to see all the wonderful, varied styles and interpretations of the theme, Elsewhere. We are always surprised as to how photographers interpret our themes, bringing the suggestions to life. Suggestions, that’s what we hope our theme choices are – prompts tickling the right brain.

There is photography that artfully shows us life and the lithosphere, the one percent of the planet that we live on. Then there is photography that shows us the incorporeal, ethereal moments behind or clothing the material.

Glenn Serbin’s image Dune Study, my Juror’s Award selection, takes sand dunes and makes them sensual — maybe a human form, maybe a cephalopod.

Gail Haile has transformed her image Frozen Moonrise from a winter scene into a winter passage, possibly the snow-covered yellow brick road, illuminated by the lights of the approaching Emerald City.

Susan Isaacson’s image At Silver Lake #6 The Big Fish becomes a long-ago memory of a fisherman.

Honey J Walker ‘s image Messages has us possibly approaching by boat a nighttime city in the rain, a carnival on the shore.

Elsewhere can be where we want to be or where we are in our dreams and creations.

Thank you to all who entered for your thoughtful images.

Kevin Tully
November, 2025

Director’s Statement

So where does your mind go when it had rather be anywhere but where you are … elsewhere?  That was the question posed to artist who submitted images for consideration for this exhibition.

I was deeply moved by Anne Walker’s beautiful image, Threshold, which portrays a delicate, ghostly woman standing within the remains of a window, surrounded by lifeless vines. Anne’s image was chosen for the Director’s Award because it so thoughtfully captures the yearning and searching to find a place beyond the present, searching for her comforting elsewhere.

In Susan Wirt’s image, Gold Dust, a shimmering spirit seeks to escape the confines of the frame. Drawn by the soft glow of the window, the spirit searches for its elsewhere, far from the present.

And in Geoffrey Agrons’ All This Useless Beauty (Rome, Italy), a girl sits, adrift in silent yearning, her gaze wandering far from the chair that holds her, dreaming of distant places.

Thank you to all the artists represented in this exhibition, whose creativity and vision have brought Elsewhere to life. I am especially grateful to Kevin Tully, the esteemed juror, whose vision has helped create this exhibition. For us “elsewhere’ is more than a theme, it is a shared journey.

Amanda Smith
October, 2025

link to online exhibition

link to exhibition catalogue