In this feature, we showcase an image per week from our current exhibition, EXPOSURE: 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. However, in celebration of the last few weeks of the show, we are going to increase the frequency (and the excitement) and share 2 per week - it’s a veritable photo frenzy!

Get thee to the PRC before the show’s last day of July 2nd!

Originally from Spain and trained as an architect, Marta is a 2nd year graduate student at one of our member schools, Rhode Island School of Design. Marta’s work has been striking quite a chord with our visitors and we’ve been getting a lot of inquiries. In her series “On War,” Marta takes images depicting war or conflict in art and photography. The recognizable images include Goya’s The Third of may, 1808; Picasso’s Guernica, 1936; Robert Capa’s Death of Militiaman, 1936 (seen above); Richard Misrach’s Submerged Trailer, Salton Sea, California, 1983.

From Marta Labad’s statement:
The following project is composed of crumpled-up familiar images that depict conflict. These images belong to my visual and cultural heritage and allow me to talk about the world surrounding us, especially conflict and aggression related to war, catastrophe, and the landscape.

ABOVE IMAGE: Marta Labad, ON WAR #5 (Robert Capa’s Death of Militiaman, 1936), 2008, Digital C-Print, 20 x 20 inches, courtesy of the artist

We’ve got a big week coming up, with some tough choices to make on Thursday. Of course, we hope you choose Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s first public lecture in Boston at the PRC. Don’t forget the leap year, one extra day of February for your enjoyment, and First Fridays deferred a week to March 7th.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Rhode Island School of Design. Visualizing Black Culture. Lecture by Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography and Imaging Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts: 7 pm. RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906. 401.454.6500. www.risd.edu

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28

Photographic Resource Center. Arno Rafael Minkkinen: unplugged, as always. 7pm, BU’s Photonics Center, Auditorium 206, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, MA. 617-975-0600. www.prcboston.org $10 Members/$15 Non-Members/$5 Full-time Students/Free for Students of Institutional Members. [meetup]

Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Boston. SMFA Traveling Scholars. Artists’ talk by Bill Durgin, Mathew Clay Freeman and Elizabeth H. Wallace: 11 am. Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115. 617-267-9300. www.mfa.org

Harvard University Art Museums. Moyra Davey: Two or Three Things I know about Her. Lecture by Catherine Lord: 6 p.m. Carpenter Center Auditorium. 24 Quincy Street. Opening Night: 7 pm. Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. www.artmuseums.harvard.edu

Griffin Museum. Photographs of Immigrant Station on Ellis Island from the Social Museum of Harvard University. Gallery talk by Beth Pugliano: 7 pm. 67 Shore Road, Winchester MA 01890. 781-729-1158. www.griffinmuseum.org

We hope to see you at as many of these great events as possible!