The photographic practice of Steven Seidenberg explores a material world of the unnoticed, fixing attention on structures, environments, and landscapes often hidden in plain sight. Three photographic series are combined in this exhibition; each focuses on past and present living conditions in a different area of the world (Puglia and Rome, Italy; Kanazawa, Japan). Seidenberg’s richly detailed images capture current and former living spaces – houses, tents, outbuildings, and empty lots – providing the viewer with ideas about the lived environment, how space is used, and how humans travel through and live within the spaces they occupy under wide-ranging material conditions.
Image by Steven Seidenberg from the series The Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South, Kanazawa Vacancy, and Baobab: Migrant Tent City, Rome.
Home Truth: Image-making in Absence
Jan. 27 – May 23, 2026
Lilley Museum of Art
Reno, Nevada, USA