Gregory Halpern has photographed in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, for over two decades and has carefully brought the resulting series together in his new monograph, King, Queen, Knave.
Image gallery
Reinbeckhallen
The work presents a distinctive and idiosyncratic perspective on a city of contradictions. Rather than fitting into familiar narratives of post-industrial decline, Buffalo unfolds here as a place that reveals a mysterious and almost surreal reality.
Halpern's fascinating sequence of images acts as a stage on which distinctive and unpredictable characters perform among abandoned buildings, snowdrifts, and sunlit scenes of everyday grandeur. The photographs often anchor their subjects in the season, connecting the historical depth of a place with the fleetingness of the moment.
Central themes of transformation and ascension permeate the series as Halpern reflects on the complexities of his hometown and of America today. It shows the inextricable intertwining of beauty and ugliness, redemption and despair. This poetic work testifies to the inexhaustible complexity of a place that remains both familiar and strange.
Dates
December 2024
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