Atlanta art critic Jerry Cullum, on Peter Bahouth's Recognition, for Burnaway:
"Bahouth has set out to create a spontaneous community to view his documentation of the community in which he lives and works. It is this innovation that distinguishes these portrait photos from the ones in the group show that fill the walls of the gallery around Bahouth’s installation. The “power of friendship” described by Bahouth in the wall text is still basically the personal relationship between the photographer and his individual subjects, but the implication is that the invisible network they form could transmute as quickly as the spontaneous interactions of friends or strangers that this viewing format might generate." Read more
Reminder: Bahouth's artist talk is this Saturday, April 21, at 11am.