SeenUnseen: Providence

With SeenUnseen: Providence, Meehan brought her awareness of her positionality as a white woman with a camera representing the world into the work itself. From 2014-2018 she walked the streets of Providence, where she lives, for the first time not as a journalist, but as a visual artist trying to understand the role of the camera in her interactions with others, the limits and restrictions of her own subjectivity, and the potential for a collaborative approach to portraiture to broaden the possibilities for what the photographic frame might contain.  

The resulting portraits are accompanied by texts that document this process and hold a mirror to us all, as we investigate the preconceptions that we hold toward one another, their tenacity, and ways in which we can move beyond them toward a deeper connection with the people around us. 

Read Meehan’s writing here.

With support from the City of Providence, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

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