Within a block of each other on the Lower East Side, two photographers who dig into genres we thought we already knew — Heather Bennett uses self-portraiture to don various personas, Katherine Newbegin takes long exposures of empty interiors — manage to uncover fresh faces and new spaces.
Here are images from both exhibitions — and read R. C. Baker’s full review of them both here: “Photographic Fiction and Fact in the LES.”
Heather Bennett: ‘Four Stories’
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
29 Orchard Street
212-343-4240, stephanstoyanov.com
Through April 27
Katherine Newbegin: ‘Vacant’
Lesley Heller Workspace
54 Orchard Street
212-410-6120, lesleyheller.com
Through April 20