Scrappin' Upstate

Scrappin' Upstate Artist Reception, with Brenda Ann Kenneally and Upstate Girls, 6:00 p.m.
Presentation by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, 7:00 p.m.

Narrative journalist  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc will explore the issues addressed in Scrappin' Upstate, and the vital role of independent journalism, with a focus on marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc.

LeBlanc will respond to questions by photo journalist Brenda Ann Kenneally about the current Sanctuary exhibit, "Scrappin' Upstate." One of the central families in her book Random Family are residents of North Troy, and a focus of Upstate Girls. When Random Family was selected to be excerpted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, the N.Y. Times assigned Kenneally the task of photographing the people that LeBlanc had documented through her ten-year reportage.  This marks the beginning of Brenda Ann Kenneally's Upstate Girls project.

Scrappin' Upstate, from the “Upstate Girls Documentary Project" 

Brenda Ann Kenneally and The Upstate Girls

Funding for this exhibit made possible through support by Open Society Documentary Photography Fund Audience Engagement Grant (formally called the Distribution Grant). 

In partnership with Rensselaer County Historical Society and Media Alliance; generous in-kind support of printing and copy work from Daniel Portnoy Photography.

Scrappin' Upstate 

March 8- June 4: Open Tuesdays- Thursdays, 11-4; plus 1 hour before, during and after events

from the “Upstate Girls Documentary Project"

with Brenda Ann Kenneally and The Upstate Girls

Funding for this exhibit made possible through support by Open Society Documentary Photography Fund Audience Engagement Grant (formally called the Distribution Grant).