Upstate Photography Biennial showcases lesbian rebels, domesticity, and identity

Key facts

• The Upstate Photography Biennial is held in New York.
• Morgan Gwenwald's series documents a lesbian feminist collective learning to shoot rifles in 1974.
• Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army inspired Gwenwald's project.
• Allison DeBritz's collages challenge mainstream media objectification of women's bodies.
• Robert Kalman asks subjects 'What’s it like for you to be an American?' and pairs images with handwritten responses.
• Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes rethinks kitchen objects as performance props.
• Kevin Williamson's images focus on the Hudson valley's urban-rural tension.
• Viktorsha Uliyanova uses recycled textiles printed with Soviet imagery to resist Russian conformity.
• Allie Tsubota combines self-portraits with fictional letters about the Hiroshima bombing.
• Ann Burke Daly and Marion Belanger use digitized glass plate negatives from Harvard College Observatory.
• Seth David Rubin constructs fractured realities via mirrors.
• Lyle Ashton Harris's Ektachrome Archive includes self-portraits and friends from the late 1980s to 2000.
• Luis Manuel Diaz explores migration between Michoacán, Mexico, and suburban New York.
• Meryl Meisler documents nightlife at Le Bain in New York City.