Online Group Exhibition - “Regional Resonance” - Fall 2025

Online Group Exhibitions
Written By Michael Behlen
 

Analog Forever Magazine is proud to present "Regional Resonance," an online group exhibition featuring 36 photographs created with film and analog processes curated by Jessi Bowman, Founder and Curator of FLATS photo lab.

Jessi writes:

In curating Regional Resonance, I looked for photographs that felt deeply rooted—not just in place, but in the emotional and cultural textures that place holds. The selected works reach beyond traditional landscape to explore the ways environment and identity are intertwined.

Each image carries a sense of lived-in specificity: a quiet porch shadow, a handmade memorial cross on a roadside, a flash of farm work seen from a moving car, daily chores, kicked up dust from someone just passing by. Some are tender, some surreal, others heavy with history or myth. But together, they map the imprints we leave behind and the spaces that shape us in return.

This collection honors analog photography’s ability to slow us down and reflect on what it means to belong somewhere, or to be in transition, looking for that belonging.

— Jessi Bowman

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ABOUT THE CURATOR

Portrait of Jessi Bowman

Jessi Bowman is a Houston-based photographer and curator with over 15 years of experience in arts nonprofits. Bowman has curated various exhibitions, including Sight Lines at Houston Center for Photography, and has worked with notable organizations like FotoFest International and Project Row Houses. She is the Founder and Curator of FLATS, a community darkroom and photo lab that began as a nomadic exhibition series showcasing local artists. Bowman’s passion lies in collaborating with organizations to bring art into non-traditional spaces, fostering vibrant photo communities. Additionally, she has started FLAT Files, the only photo publication dedicated to highlighting Southern Central photographers and curators.

Learn more about FLATS on their website and Instagram

Connect with Jessi on her Instagram

 
Michael Behlen
Michael Behlen is a photography enthusiast from Fresno, CA. He works in finance and spends his free time shooting instant film and seeing live music, usually a combination of the two. He has self- published two Polaroid photobooks--“Searching for Stillness, Vol. 1” and “I Was a Pioneer,” literally a boxed set of his instant film work. He exhibited a variety of his photos at Raizana Teas, a Fresno tea room and health food store; his work there, “Polaroid Prints of Landscapes and Strangers,” was up for viewing during the months of June and July, 2014. He has been published, been interviewed, and been reviewed in a quantity of magazines, from” F-Stop” and “ToneLit” to “The Film Shooter’s Collective.” He loves the magic sensuality of instant film: its saturated, surreal colors; the unpredictability of the medium; it’s addictive qualities as you watch it develop. Behlen is the founder and Publisher of “Pryme Magazine.” You can see his work here: www.dontshakeitlikeapolaroid.com
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