Surreal Geometries: A New Exhibition at The Halide Project

Surreal Geometries: A New Exhibition at The Halide Project featuring Denise Laurintaitis, Jacob McGuinness, and Millee Tibbs PHILADELPHIA, PA —The Halide Project is pleased to announce Surreal Geometries, a new exhibition of works by Denise Laurintaitis, Jacob McGuinness, and Millee Tibbs. The exhibition will run from May 3 to June 15, 2025, with a free-entry opening reception held on Saturday, May 3, 2025, from 5 – 8 p.m.

Attendees can look forward to hearing insights from the artists and curator during the opening remarks.

This exhibition reveals experimental photography’s power-not merely to docu-lent but to transtorm perception. I hrough fractured spaces, mirrored repetition. nd lavered surfaces, each artist uses the medium to reimagine how we make sens of the world around us. These photographs are not simply records. They invite us to pause, to look again—and to see.

Curated by Dale Rio, Co-founder and Programming and Curatorial Coordinator at The Halide Project. Rio notes, “With 2025 marking the tenth anniversary of The Halide Project, we are delighted by the serendipity of featuring three artists who each embody a core aspect of our organization: our community darkroom, educational programming, and gallery. Jacob McGuinness is an active member of our darkroom community, Denise Laurintaitis recently participated in one of our educational workshops, and Millee Tibbs is an internationally exhibited artist.”

As part of the Halide Project’s virtual series, Light Talks, Jacob McGuinness will present a virtual artist talk on April 28, 2025, and Millee Tibbs will offer a virtual talk on June 9, 2025. Details are available on The Halide Project’s website.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Denise Laurintaitis made a spontaneous, cross-country move that upended her life.

Using the lumen printing process to render large-scale palm leaves in a gridded format, she reflects on her new sense of “home” —and, for the first time, a feelin of spontaneity that extends bevond the geometric framework that anchors her work

Jacob McGuinness designs and constructs his own cameras, often featuring hundreds of apertures and inner structures that divide sheets of film into gridded compositions. He uses these creations to interrogate the camera’s perceived neutrality as a tool, recontextualizing it as a device that frames and distorts perception.

Millee Tibbs is drawn to photography because of its ubiquitous presence in our culture and its dual role: it appears to record reality objectively yet simultaneousl shapes our perception. Focusing on the photograph as a physical object, Tibb: explores the overlap between the real and the constructed, particularly in ideal-ized-and often commercialized-landscape imagery. She also investigates the ways in which photography can serve to frame historical narratives.

ABOUT THE VENUE

The Halide Project is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the continued practice and appreciation of film and historic process photography. Based in the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia, The Halide Project serves the local and global photography communities through exhibitions, educational programming (both in-person and virtual), collaborations with other organizations, and – most recently – our new community darkroom, which has a gang B&W darkroom, film processing area, color film developing (currently with a Jobo processor), and a dim room for alternative/historic process work.