'Photos From Down the Road'

An exhibition of street photography by East End artist Richard Law, will be on display at Southampton Cultural Center from July 15 through August 4. Titled “Photos From Down the Road,” the collection includes street photography and beautiful scenes from the East End and around the world. The opening reception will be held on Sunday, July 21, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

“Photos From Down the Road” is a continuation of Law’s earlier exhibit, “Meet the Street,” which has been presented at Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, the Paulina Rieloff Gallery, in New York City and The Parthenon Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee. “Photos From Down the Road” were selected from Law’s 50 year archive as a street photographer. It will include scenes from the East End as well as places as far away as Saudi Arabia, China and Russia, as an artistic attempt to demonstrate that, no matter where we are, we are all more alike than different and we are all in this together.

The photos were inspired by Norman Rockwell who Law states was his “entry into photography.” As a child, he thought Rockwell’s paintings and illustrations of everyday life, which hung in his family’s dining room, were actually photographs. At around age 12 he was told they were paintings, so he set off to create similar images photographically.

“I wanted to give people a place to take the family without fighting traffic … and at the same time, in the park across the street, is the Southampton Farmer’s Market,” said Law. “I thought it could be a nice way to spend the morning in the Hamptons,”

Southampton Cultural Center is at 25 Pond Lane in Southampton Village. For more information visit scc-arts.org.