Community Art Exhibition & Celebration
April 5 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Community Art Exhibition & Celebration — April 5, 2–5pm
Photos made by Uncle George and phones made in the workshops, along with all the unique pinhole cameras will be up.
All are welcome to this open exhibit!
George Lane Benson, affectionately known as “Uncle George” to his great-niece once removed, Anahid Yahjian, was a self-taught photographer, tinkerer and adventurer who was born in East LA in 1935 and lived in Norwalk until his death in 2012. He picked up pinhole photography during his retirement, documenting his changing city on his bicycle.
In his twilight years, he taught Yahjian, then a college film student, his new craft. She inherited many of his prints and negatives and all of his equipment, including his wonderful handmade pinhole cameras and light charts. Hoping to give the cameras and gear a new purpose, Yahjian pulled them from storage and passed them down to filmmaker and arts educator Daphna Lapidot, who brought them to Art in the Park for our educational programming.