AAF Charlotte is supporting this The Light Factory event.

The Gowins and Nakagawa will also be in attendance for the opening reception of A Shared Elegy ​at The Light Factory, so we hope you'll join us in the gallery for this momentous occasion. We will have a limited number of A Shared Elegy books for sale, too—which you can have signed by all three artists. This event is also free and open to the public.

A Shared Elegy presents two pairs of photographers connected by family ties. Osamu James Nakagawa and his uncle, Takayuki Ogawa, and Elijah Gowin and his father, Emmet Gowin, present unique but overlapping visions recording family histories. Nakagawa, like his uncle, Ogawa, grew up in Japan and draws upon his country’s traditions and the practice of honoring elders; family heritage and home in Virginia have inspired the Gowins to make photographs that depict the intimate and hallowed nature of the world. These photographs compel us to reflect and consider our place in the cycle of life.