Artist Workshop: The Everyday Photograph - Market Still Lifes | Present Imperfection Exhibition by Pat Graham
Date and Time
- Saturday, Aug 22, 2026 11am - 1pm
Location
Pavilion Pop-Up
5335 Wisconsin Ave NW
Details
Join artist Pat Graham for workshop / live lab connected to the exhibition, The Everyday Photograph: Market Still Lifes. In this hands-on workshop, visitors will make instant photographs from fruit, flowers, favorite snacks, and small personal objects. A hands-on still life lab about the everyday things we carry, choose, eat, and keep. Pat will offer a short introduction, creative shooting prompts, practical tips, and hands-on advice, with work from the Live Lab becoming part of the growing community exhibition over time.
Where: Pavilion Pop-Up 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW
When: Saturday, August 22, 11 am-1 pm
About the Exhibit
Present Imperfection: is a summer exhibition about instant photography, imperfect memory, DIY culture, and the way photographs keep changing meaning over time.
Curated by photographer and artist Pat Graham with MORENOYCLARA the exhibition brings together selected international and DC connected photographers and artists working with Polaroid, instant film, scans, and prints. The project treats instant photography as immediate but never fixed: a small image that can hold friendship, travel, music, place, accident, and time.
The exhibition builds on a 2017 Málaga exhibition Past Perfect: Collective Reflections focused around the Polaroid & Photographic Instant. Which was curated by Pat Graham and presented by Staf Magazine/MORENOYCLARA. This adapted DC exhibition brings together selected international and DC connected photographers and artists working with Polaroid, instant film, scans, prints, and related photographic materials.
Show Events:
The show will include an opening and closing reception, two instant portrait sessions, a community archive day, and several workshops. In addition, curator Pat Graham will hold ‘live lab’ hours on site on Fridays and Saturdays from 11 am to 3 pm as an artist-in-residence. The show is open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 am to 5 pm.
See all event dates HERE
Getting There:
The Pavilion Pop-Up is at 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW, next to the office lobby; enter just to the right of Trader Joe's. If you come from the Metro, follow the signs to the office lobby.