As part of a year-long 20th anniversary celebration, the Baltimore Contemporary Museum is exhibiting 20 portrait photos taken by Ben Gest.
The exhibit, titled "Ben Gest: Commissure," gets a favorable
review by the Washington Post's Michael O'Sullivan.
"Stare long enough at one of
the photographer's large-scale portraits and you just might get motion sickness," the Post writes. "The people and the
environments they capture - though "capture" is not exactly the right
word; everything and everyone in them squirms a little too much - seem
skewed or warped at impossible, even vertiginous angles"
But the exhibit gets high praise. "Like the best art, Gest's images ask a question, without providing an
answer: Who among us is comfortable - or even fully at home - in his or
her own skin?" the Post writes.