Please join us in the gallery for a conversation with Michelle Dunn Marsh and Adrain Chesser around the exhibition Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography.

Chronograph #07 (9.22.16–10.7.16). Double-sided dynamic cyanotype, each side 7 ⅜ x 9 5/16 in. Unique. © and courtesy Meghann Riepenhoff

Michelle Dunn Marsh (b. 1973, she/her) is the co-founder of Minor Matters Books. Since 1994 she has professionally engaged with the artform of photography through the creation of over one hundred publications, curation and placement of exhibitions, and development of numerous public programs. She has held leadership positions with Aperture Foundation (New York), Chronicle Books (San Francisco), and Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle), and consulted with the estate of legendary music photographer Jim Marshall, among other professional roles.

Adrain Chesser is a self-taught photographer who refined his craft and practice through personal mentor/protégé relationships with photographers Rosalind Solomon and Debbie Fleming Caffery. His first critical success came with the body of work I Have Something to Tell You, a personal exploration of what it meant to disclose life-altering news.

In 2004, he was awarded a year-long residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. His projects have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and in 2014, he presented at the TEDx convention in Vienna. His first book, The Return, was published in 2014 by Daylight Books. Minor Matters Books published his second monograph, I Have Something to Tell You, in the fall of 2017.

His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Portland Museum of Art; and The Norton Museum of Art, among others. He is the recipient of a 2025 Art Projects grant from 4Culture and King County for the completion of an 18-year collaborative project titled Beaster & Bear.