NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release – October 7, 2015

The Nassau Community College Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery Presents

Seven Summers – An Exhibition by Award Winning Photographer Nadia Sablin 

 

November 3 – December 22

Garden City, NY – Nassau Community College will present Seven Summers, an exhibition by award winning photographer Nadia Sablin, November 3 through December 22 at the Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery. The photographs in the exhibit feature the lives of her aunts in northwest Russia, who are in their seventies but carry on the traditional Russian way of life — chopping wood for heating the house, bringing water from the well, planting potatoes and making their own clothes. (download hi res photo - Alevtina and Ludmila with Blueberries. Digital Chromogenic Print, 2009) In the warmer months, Sablin's aunts still occupy the house that was built by her grandfather in 1952, she said. The two women, who have never married, have relied on each other for support and companionship their entire lives. Sablin has been spending summers in the village north of St. Petersburg photographing her aunts' routines and quiet occupations. "In these photographs, I record the stories of their lives, and explore the childhood memories I have of them," she said. Eventually, her aunts began to collaborate with her in reinterpreting her memories and creating new ones. Photographs from Seven Summers will be published in a book of photography and will be in a solo exhibition at Duke University's Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. A freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, Sablin's work has also been featured in such publications as The New York Times, the Guardian and the New Yorker. Her photographs have been included in solo and group exhibitions across the United States. The Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery at Nassau Community College is located in Room 140 of the College Center Building. Its hours are Monday and Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; and Saturday by appointment. For more information, please call 516.572.7162.

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Media Contact: Alicia Steger 516.572.9634 alicia.steger@ncc.edu ncc.edu/newsreleases

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