Interactive Photography Exhibit To Capture Lancaster City Residents

City Residents will be photographed as part of Spring Art Walk Exhibit "Lancaster Squared". Lancaster City Human Relations Commission and Lancaster fine art portrait photographer Barbara Kyne from Lime Street Studios partner to showcase diversity through photography.

Lancaster, PA (PRWEB) April 8, 2008 - The Lancaster City Human Relations Commission and fine art portrait photographer Barbara Kyne continue to grow the body of work titled Lancaster Squared. Lancaster City Human Relations Commission and Lancaster fine art portrait photographer Barbara Kyne from Lime Street Studios have partnered to showcase diversity through photography.

The Lancaster Squared series is an exploration of diversity in Lancaster City, and currently comprises photographs of more than 60 Lancaster city residents, of all ages and ethnicities.

The series is currently housed in the City Council Chambers in the Southern Market Center at 100 South Queen Street in Lancaster, where the black and white photographs can be viewed during Lancaster's annual Spring Art Walk. At the same time, Kyne will be on hand to photograph city residents who wish to have their faces added to the series.

"No matter what language you speak, looking into the face of another person makes a connection. We're very hopeful that city residents will want to be apart of this ongoing exhibit, and that those who live outside the city boundaries will want to see the exhibition and learn a little more about who their neighbors really are," said Lancaster City Human Relations Commission Chair, Albert Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, city councilman Nelson Polite, 7th grader Zoe Brown Buckwalter and behavioral healthcare worker Lori Weaver were the first four subjects of Lancaster Squared which was started in 2007. The name derived from each of the first four subjects then choosing two more people to be photographed.

Since that time, demand from residents wanting to be part of the series has meant a different approach, and hence the decision to give everyone the opportunity to have their photograph taken as part of the series, said portrait photographer Barbara Kyne of Lime Street Studios (http:www.limestreetstudios.com).

"Photography is an incredibly powerful way to express the diversity and the richness that exists in Lancaster city. People take snap shots of their friends and family all the time, yet for most people having a professional portrait made is still a singular experience. Faces are amazing and it has been amazing to see the response from people over the past year when they see their portrait or the portrait of someone they know, hanging in a public space. Faces are the way we've recognized and responded to one another since the beginning of time. They're elemental," said Kyne.

Commenting on the project Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray said, "Lancaster Squared fits perfectly with the mission of the City's Human Relations Commission, to further understanding and relations between the various cultural, racial, ethnic, and economic groups in the city and county."

During Art Walk, exhibit hours at City Council Chambers are Saturday April 19, 10 am to 5 p.m. and Sunday April 20, 12-5 p.m.

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