EXHIBITION RECEPTION: SLANT RHYMES - ALEX WEBB AND REBECCA NORRIS WEBB

Join us to kick off the 2026 Filter Photo Festival with a Welcome Reception at Leica Gallery. Catch up with other Festival attendees and view their current exhibition, Slant Rhymes by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb. Gallery Director and Curator, Lucas Zenk, will share brief remarks about the exhibition.

Slant Rhymes is a visual conversation between Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb. Selected from photographs taken during the Webbs’ nearly 30-year relationship (a friendship evolving into a marriage and creative partnership), this group of photographs is laid out in pairs—one by Alex, one by Rebecca—to create a series of visual rhymes that talk to one another, often at a slant.

Alex Webb has published more than 15 books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey book of 30 years of his color photographs. He's exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work is in numerous collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. A Magnum Photos member since 1979, his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Geo, National Geographic, Vogue, and other publications. Webb has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Some of his most recent books include La Calle: Photographs from Mexico and two collaborative books, Brooklyn: The City Within and Waves with Rebecca Norris Webb, the latter newly reprinted by Aperture. His most recent book, Dislocations, was released in fall 2023 by Aperture. He's currently working on an ongoing project on U.S. cities.

Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often interweaves her words and photographs in her books, most notably in her monograph, My Dakota-an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly-for which a solo exhibition of the work appeared at The Cleveland Museum of Art in summer 2015, among other venues. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, La Monde, and National Geographic, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. A 2019 NEA grant recipient, her tenth book—A Difficulty Is a Light—is her first hybrid poetry book, which is punctuated by fifteen of her photographs, with an accompanying exhibition at the Alessia Paladini Gallery in Milan, Nov. 14, 2024-Jan. 18, 2025. Norris Webb is currently working on an ongoing series of photographs in the Dakotas, called Badlands, as well as her upcoming book, Glimmerings, a selection of some thirty years of her lyrical photographs.

Lucas Zenk developed an interest in visual media at an early age, studying film at University of Massachusetts before attending the New England School of Photography in Boston. He later interned in the cultural department at Magnum Photos in New York, where he gained experience in both the commercial and gallery sides of photography.

For more than fifteen years, Zenk has held leadership positions within prominent photography galleries. He previously served as Gallery Director at Stephen Daiter Gallery and currently serves as Gallery Director of the recently established Leica Gallery, Chicago. He lives in Berwyn with his family and in his free time enjoys camping, reading, and home renovation.