February First Friday: A Multimedia Photography Exhibition by Tyler Scaife
The past is only a shadow emerging from nowhere. -Julia de Burgos
A Multimedia Photography Exhibition by Tyler Scaife
February 4th – 28th, 2011
Opening Reception: First Friday, February 4th, 6-8pm
Over the past year, photographer Tyler Scaife has been creating a series of images of abandoned elementary and middle schools throughout the Philadelphia area. Many of these schools have been unused for decades, slowly deteriorating behind barred steel doors and boarded-up windows. Although subject to vandalism and exposure to the elements, the schools still exhibit their former grandeur through classic architecture and craftsmanship no longer seen in contemporary building.
Focusing on the Julia de Burgos School in North Philadelphia, which was built in 1903 as the Northeast Manual Training School; Tyler will be exhibiting mixed media photographic works, as well as ephemera gathered during his exploration and research of this once grand institution.