The Gallery at Mercer County Community College is set to present Pannaroma in September.
The exhibition features panoramic photographs by 18 photographers who used a specially designed 1×3 panoramic camera built by Thomas Roma, the director of photography at Columbia University. The show has been previously exhibited in New York City, Miami and New Orleans.
According to MCCC photography professor Michael Dalton, co-curator of the exhibit with gallery director Dylan Wolfe, Roma created 31 cameras from the mid-1980s through the 1990s built on a handheld 35mm Nikon F. Dalton notes that panoramic cameras at that time were significantly heavier and used larger film, requiring the use of a tripod.
“Professor Roma’s goal was to make the taking of panoramic photos easier and allow for more versatile subject matter,” Dalton said in a statement.
Many of the photos in the exhibit capture interaction between people and their environment, a departure from the sprawling natural scenery typically depicted with panoramic cameras.
Pannaroma features work from professional photographers, including a number of Roma’s former students. In addition to Roma himself and MCCC’s Dalton, the exhibit includes photos by Inbal Abergil, Tony Chirinos, Sasha Waters Freyer, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Hilger, Yoav Horesh, Zsolt Kadar, Richard LaBarbera, Jeff Ladd, Kai McBride, Laura Mircik-Sellers, Claudio Nolasco, Anibal Pella-Woo, Dennis Santella, Raghubir Singh and Daniel Willner.
Pannaroma is set to open Sept. 2 and runs through Sept. 25. An opening reception featuring statements by some of the photographers is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 4.
The MCCC Galley is located on the second floor of the Communications Building on the college’s West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. Hours for this show are Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
More information is online at mccc.edu/gallery.
