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Adjacent To Life, presents McAllen, Texas by Mike Marquez.
Leon Brown writes:
Photographer Mike Marquez exhibits his most recent collection of 15 color photographs taken at a carnival in McAllen, Texas in April 2025.
Marquez states: “This collection is a callback to what attracted me to photography in the first place, the freedom of the eye in deciding what to capture rather than the production of commercial object imagery.”
The desaturated atmosphere of each photograph presents like linen with the earthly shapes, tents, rails and people being cut from it. Marquez balances the carnival activity with the sky such that the foreground stands mostly as a notion of prominence and sentiment rather than simply the reality of the focal plane. The results are palpable and arresting.
Each of these 6″x7″ photographs are hand printed and custom framed, continuing a direct line between the particularity of the carnival equipment and the people captured within.
McAllen. Texas is on view through September 5, 2025 at the Adjacent To Life gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City). Artist’s reception: Saturday, August 16, 7:00 – 9:00 pm.
Leon Brown 
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