Fleeting Moments: an Exhibition of Photographs by Pat Goeters

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Extended through August 25!
Weekend hours on Sunday, June 28: 6 - 8 p.m.

Photography and the Internet:
Photography's future without film or prints
A Presentation by Pat Goeters, David Gordon and Robin Chan on Sunday, June 28 at 7 p.m.

Open to the Public

In his new exhibition at the Brookline Arts Center, “Fleeting Moments,” Pat Goeters creates candid photographs of people passing in the streets or the subway. The images are observed in the indirect artificial light that reflects off the city’s sidewalks: his subjects may never have known that they walked through an artwork.

Fleeting Moments: Photography by Pat Goeters, is on view at the Brookline Arts Center from Monday, June 22 to Friday, August 14, 2009. Goeters has been a writer, an architect, a professor and a housing consultant in addition to his photographic work. He has exhibited his photography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; St. Mary’s College, Kansas; Boston University and the Art Institute of Boston.

On Sunday, June 28 at 7:00 p.m., Goeters will be joined by photojournalists David Gordon and Robin Chan for a photo event exploring the new kinds of virtual photographic experiences created by the combined influence of the Internet and digital photography. Photography and the Internet: Photography's future without film or prints, is free and open to the public.

“We are exploring what happens to photography when you no longer print copies of the photo,” says exhibiting photographer Pat Goeters. “It’s a very different world.”

“These three exciting photographers will present and discuss their web-based photo essays, in order to explore new approaches to storytelling and atmosphere,” according to Brookline Arts Center Executive Director Susan Navarre. “To me, these virtual essays create a 21st century version of the slide shows, newsmagazine photo essays, and cinematic editing of an earlier era. With music and their many visual effects, they are an exciting new art form with a potentially huge audience.”

David Gordon is a graduate of Hobart College who has published his photographs in the Patriot Ledger, Boston Herald, and Lowell Sun. Robin Chan first became a freelance photographer after graduating from Boston College; now, both Gordon and Chan are staff photographers for the Community Newspaper Company, publisher of the Brookline TAB and other Boston-area newspapers.

Fleeting Moments is on view Monday through Friday from 9:00am – 4:30 pm. The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth St., at the corner of St. Mary’s Street, and is convenient to public transportation and wheelchair accessible. For more information, please call 617-566-5715 or visit Pat Goeters' web site.