Soho Photo Gallery

Soho Photo Gallery Soho Photo Gallery is New York City’s longest operating member-run photography gallery.

539 W 23rd Street
New York, New York
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Soho Photo Gallery, the oldest and largest photo cooperative in NYC, has been showcasing a broad spectrum of imagery by emerging and veteran photographers since 1971.

NEW, FREE Online Event: From Plants to Prints, the Colourful Life of a Botanical Artist: A talk and demonstration by Bot...
09/01/2026

NEW, FREE Online Event: From Plants to Prints, the Colourful Life of a Botanical Artist: A talk and demonstration by Botanical Artist Elisabeth Viguie-Culshaw: 🔵Wednesday, September 16 at 4PM ET. https://lnkd.in/gDRN63n4

In her talk, Elisabeth will explain her journey which started from colour to plants. Due to a lack of available guidance or methods, she began by making “Brown” prints and has now progressed to creating beautiful, colourful, colourfast crisp prints using her local vegetation. These prints have photographic qualities and unique effects linked to the very vegetation used to make them.

She will talk about how she reverses the process, starting with the plant to gratefully accept the colour obtained. Each print can be classified as a “Botanical moment”. She will demonstrate (simply) the printing process, and describe how the process connects her with the environment, and a community of Eco artists interested in sustainability and imperfection made by nature.

🎯This online event is FREE, and will be held via Zoom. Registration required to receive the Zoom link. The Zoom link will be sent to the email address accosiated with your EventBrite account.

Please note: Our speaker will be joining us from Scotland, which is why this talk starts at 4PM New York time.

🔴Get more info and/or register here on our EventBrite page. https://lnkd.in/gDRN63n4

🔵This event is part of Soho Photo Gallery’s annual Alternative Process Competition and Exhibition speaker series. Learn more about our Alternative Process Competition and Exhibition (which is now open for submissions) on our gallery website.

NEW, FREE Online Event: From Plants to Prints, the Colourful Life of a Botanical Artist: A talk and demonstration by Bot...
09/01/2026

NEW, FREE Online Event: From Plants to Prints, the Colourful Life of a Botanical Artist: A talk and demonstration by Botanical Artist Elisabeth Viguie-Culshaw: 🔵Wednesday, September 16 at 4PM ET. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-plants-to-prints-the-colourful-life-of-a-botanical-artist-tickets-1999163948185?aff=oddtdtcreator

Elisabeth Viguie-Culshaw is a French born Eco artist living and practicing in Scotland. Trained as a conservation stencil artist by the University of Glasgow and Christie’s in the 1990’s, she spent a life time looking at faded pigments on walls.

In 2015 she decided to explore natural dyes out of a personal interest and came across the botanical work of Australian artist India Flint on wool. As her own interest was working on paper, and not much was available in that subject, she started testing, using her own mordanting recipes and local plants. She fell in love and never worked on a wall again.

In her talk, Elisabeth will explain her journey which started from colour to plants. Due to a lack of available guidance or methods, she began by making “Brown” prints and has now progressed to creating beautiful, colourful, colourfast crisp prints using her local vegetation. These prints have photographic qualities and unique effects linked to the very vegetation used to make them.

She will talk about how she reverses the process, starting with the plant to gratefully accept the colour obtained. Each print can be classified as a “Botanical moment”. She will demonstrate (simply) the printing process, and describe how the process connects her with the environment, and a community of Eco artists interested in sustainability and imperfection made by nature.

🎯This online event is FREE, and will be held via Zoom. Registration required to receive the Zoom link. The Zoom link will be sent to the email address accosiated with your EventBrite account.

Please note: Our speaker will be joining us from Scotland, which is why this talk starts at 4PM New York time.

🔴Get more info and/or register here on our EventBrite page. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-plants-to-prints-the-colourful-life-of-a-botanical-artist-tickets-1999163948185?aff=oddtdtcreator

🔵This event is part of Soho Photo Gallery’s annual Alternative Process Competition and Exhibition speaker series. Learn more about our Alternative Process Competition and Exhibition (which is now open for submissions) on our gallery website.

We are OPEN ALL SUMMER! Come to our gallery in Chelsea to enjoy our photography exhibitions in cool, air-condition comfo...
08/07/2026

We are OPEN ALL SUMMER! Come to our gallery in Chelsea to enjoy our photography exhibitions in cool, air-condition comfort all weekend! While our Summertime-themed Pop-Up exhibition remains up through September 6, this is the last weekend for the one-person shows from Mark Ludak, Jon Fishel & Mandy Seligman. 🎯Soho Photo Gallery, 539 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan. Hours: 12noon-6pm. 🔵And don’t forget to check out the unique exhibition from our interns as well!

We are open all summer! A new show opens next week featuring Elisabeth Ciaccio, Martin Frank, John Mancia, Tom D’Amic, A...
08/06/2026

We are open all summer! A new show opens next week featuring Elisabeth Ciaccio, Martin Frank, John Mancia, Tom D’Amic, Annie Lawver, our Interns’ Show - PLUS our Sumnertime-themed Pop-up! Phew! That’s A LOT! Stop by to see us Wednesday-Sunday, 12noon-6pm, all summer!

Meet Our Photographers: Mark Ludak: Among the many types and mediums of photography we exhibit is ‘concerned photography...
08/05/2026

Meet Our Photographers: Mark Ludak: Among the many types and mediums of photography we exhibit is ‘concerned photography’; photography that tackles an important subject. One of the shows we have up this month through August 9, the work of Mark Ludak, is just such an exhibition. Here he answers our questions...

🔵Soho Photo Gallery: What would you like people to know about you or your work?
🔴Mark Ludak: In Plain Sight looks at the incarceration and detention camps for Japanese, German and Italian citizens and non-citizens of the United States during World War ll. These photographs start with what is left on these sites of incarceration. Foundation slabs scarring the soil. Fence posts demarcating buildings no longer in existence. Contemporary shipping containers set in an Eastern Sierra landscape for no apparent reason. A dumping ground for non-working appliances. Flat, open ground where a firehouse, a hospital, a boiler house once served a purpose in daily life. Some of these places have returned to something resembling an ordinary yet sublime landscape: a field of sage and sweetgrass, a river snaking through an arid landscape, a view of the high desert with an reminder of another era.

🔵SPG: What or who has been your biggest inspiration?
🔴ML: There are so many photographers, painters and thinkers. The work of Walker Evans, Roy DeCarava, Ray Metzger, Aaron Siskind, Helen Levitt, Mark Feldstein, Harry Callahan, Richard Misrach, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Agnes Martin, Mark Rotko, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Viktor Frankl, Guy Oakes, Maurice Natanson, The Photo League.

🔵SPG: What is the process/technique you used for this body of work?
🔴ML: Medium format digital capture and inkjet prints sized at 20 x 27 inches.

Mark’s website: www.markludak.com

🎯Soho Photo Gallery, 539 West 23rd Street in Chelsea, is open Wednesday though Sunday, 12noon - 6pm.

Meet our Photographers: Jonathan Fishel: Jonathan began his photography journey by taking a darkroom course as a teen, a...
07/28/2026

Meet our Photographers: Jonathan Fishel: Jonathan began his photography journey by taking a darkroom course as a teen, and has since studied Alternative Processes at Penumbra Foundation. His work is currently on exhibit in our gallery (through August 9). Here he answers our questions...

🔵 Soho Photo Gallery: What would you like people to know about you or your work?
🔴 Jonathan Fishel: My images lean toward an Asian and Buddhist aesthetic. My father was a collector of Japanese artwork and being surrounded by this work had a big impact on my taste as I developed my own style. When shooting, I often look for deserted places and explore without having a preconcieved idea of the images I will take. It’s a meditative approach that I think provides a space where I see things that I might not have noticed otherwise. Fine craft is very important to my work and while I work both in film and digitally, all my prints are made by hand using alternative process techniques.

🔵 SPG: What or who has been your biggest inspiration?
🔴 JF: There’s a book “The Tao of Photography” by Gross and Shapiro that influenced me a great deal in how I approach taking photographs. It aligned with classical 19th and 20th century photographers have been a great inspiration. Particularly Edward Weston and Eugene Atget. I also greatly admire the contemporary landscape photos of Michael Kenna.

🔵 SPG: What is the process/technique you used for this body of work?
🔴 JF: The images in this series are all palladium prints. Palladium/platinum printing is one of the oldest photographic processes, first developed in the late 1800’s. Each of the prints in the “Coastal Life” series is made entirely by hand. Full size negatives are exposed under ultraviolet light in contact paper hand-coated with a palladium emulsion. After development the resulting print is capable of exceptional quality and subtle tonal range.

🔵 SPG: What does photography mean to you?
🔴 JF: For me, photography is a meditative process that creates a calm center for me in my life. This is true in the field and in the darkroom. My objective with my images is to convey that same quiet centering for the viewer.

Website: www.Jonathanfishel.com

🎯 Soho Photo Gallery, 539 West 23rd Street in Chelsea, is open Wednesday though Sunday, 12noon - 6pm.

We are open all summer! To celebrate the season, we invited our member photographers to share images that capture the sp...
07/13/2026

We are open all summer! To celebrate the season, we invited our member photographers to share images that capture the spirit of summers past for this special pop-up exhibition. From nostalgic moments to sun-soaked memories, these photographs evoke those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. Visit the gallery to experience the exhibition, on view July 15 through September 6. 🔵Opening Reception, Thursday, July 16, 6-8PM.

NEW, FREE Virtual Event: Tuesday, July 7 at 7PM ET: Planting Utopia: Creating Cyanotypes From Plants with Julia Whitney ...
07/05/2026

NEW, FREE Virtual Event: Tuesday, July 7 at 7PM ET: Planting Utopia: Creating Cyanotypes From Plants with Julia Whitney Barnes. 🔵Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/planting-utopia-creating-cyanotypes-from-plants-with-julia-whitney-barnes-tickets-1992389146571?aff=oddtdtcreator

Julia Whitney Barnes will present on her extensive body of work "Planting Utopia" created with the over 150 medicinal plant specimens collected from the herb garden at Shaker Heritage Society, in Albany, NY. Through the use of the cyanotype medium, Whitney Barnes manipulates the pressed plants along with intricately cut photographic negatives. For her works on paper, the unique blue and white prints are just the beginning and then she paints in many layers of watercolor, gouache and ink.

🔵This event is FREE and all are welcome. Registration is required to receive your Zoom Link.

🔵Please note: Your Zoom link will be emailed to you before the event, to the email address associated with your EventBrite account.

🔵About Soho Photo Gallery: Soho Photo Gallery is New York City’s longest operating artist-run photography gallery. The gallery exhibits a wide range of fine-art photography including individual member shows, gallery-wide themed exhibits, national competitions and prestigious guest exhibitions. Soho Photo offers its members the unique opportunity of being a part of a diverse community of fellow photographers and personal growth as a fine-art photographer. The gallery also offers workshops, lectures and other programming open to the public.

This weekend: See great photography AND beat the heat!😎 We'll be open all holiday weekend & we've got central air condit...
07/03/2026

This weekend: See great photography AND beat the heat!😎 We'll be open all holiday weekend & we've got central air conditioning so you can peruse the winning images from our prestigious annual National Competition in cool comfort! This year the show was curated by Joanna Lehan, Manager of Curatorial Projects at the Museum of the City of New York. Stop by and see us, 12noon-6pm, all weekend long! 539 WEst 23rd Street, Chelsea, NYC.

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Friday 1pm - 6pm
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