Candela Collection on View at VCU’s The Anderson
The Anderson and VCUarts are pleased to announce Corpus:Selections from the Candela Collection, an exhibition of photographic work by twenty-five artists from the collection of Candela Photographic Arts.The exhibition will be on view at The Anderson from August 28th to October 17th with an opening reception on Friday, August 28th from 5-7 pm.
EXHIBITION: JW Toftness
Candela presents When Seeds Are Sent for Flowers, a selection of works from JW Toftness’ recent series, To Redecorate a Dream. The work explores the psychological, even ontological, divide we appear to construct between digital space and tangible reality.On view from September 4 – October 24, 2026.
EXHIBITION: Tommy Kha
Candela presents Facades, a selection of images by Brooklyn-based artists and Guggenheim recipient Tommy Kha. Facades is a continuation of Kha’s practice of collaborative, multi-generational work wherein the artist is both photographer and performer. On view from September 4 – October 24, 2026.
OPEN CALL: BINGO SHOW FALL 2026
Candela Photographic Arts is delighted to introduce our pilot BINGO open call, which will be on view from October 2 – October 24, and will culminate in Bingo Day: a closing day bingo fundraiser during which each work on view will go to a new home with a photo lover!
ACQUISITIONS & HONORARIUMS: UnBound15!
With money raised from this year’s fundraising efforts, we were able to collect additional photographic works for the Candela Collection. Thanks to all who gave, partied, and supported from afar.
CANDELAR FEATURE: AUGUST
Meredith Winicki is a photographer and documentary filmmaker whose work is inspired by the places she encounters and the moments that define them. Through landscape and documentary photography, she uses composition, light, and timing to create images that invite viewers to pause, look closer, and experience the world through a different lens.
UNB15! Artist Features: IX
COLLEEN KEIHM • CHRISTINE CARR• JESSE EGNER • GARY EMRICH • ROSAMUND CASEY • ISAAC MCKENNA • FURICHA (YULIIA GLADKA)
UNB15! Artist Features: VIII
SUSAN LAPIDES • CAROL GOLEMBOSKI • ANNETE FOURNET • KEN WOOD • ANASTASIA SIERRA • ALEYANA MITCHELL • PHILIP SAGER
UNB15! Artist Features: VII
NICK ORTOLEVA • WILL DOUGLAS • RICK WRIGHT • NICK GLADKIY & YULIIA GLADKA
UNB15! Artist Features: VI
GLEN SCHEFFER • CHRISTIAAN LOPEZ-MIRO • CURTIS MILLER • KAT BAWDEN • ZACHARY KOLDEN • SHEIDA SOLEIMANI
UNB15! Artist Features: V
CHRISTA BLACKWOOD • MICHAEL VALIQUETTE • ALEXANDER LAURENT RUBALCAVA • ALVIN LESTER • LALI KHALID • DAVID ZHENG
UNB15! Artist Features: IV
TOBIAS SHAW • DUSTIN RIGGS • JULIA PARRIS • MARGO GEDDES • LAUREN BERTELSON • ROSHAUN STEPHENSON • GRACE WESTON
UNB15! Artist Features: III
LAILA NAHAR & AMAYA MAHMUD • DANA STIRLING • VAUNE TRACHTMAN • CLAIRE KOSKY • AMANDA SAUER • RICH-JOSEPH FACUN • ALINE SMITHSON • TOD KAPKE • JENNY YIYUN KUO
UNB15! Artist Features: II
JEREMY STARN • HENRY CRAWLEY • NATHAN WILKINSON • JODY SERVON & LORENE DELANY-ULLMAN • SARA J. WINSTON & ILEANA RAMIREZ • DIMITRI STASZEWSKI • KATE THOMPSON
UNB15! Artist Features: I
NICOLE ROSENTHAL • ANNE ROWLAND • JAMIE V ROBERTSON • JONAH REENDERS • BRANDON TOWNS • JACK FOX
The 2026 CANDELAFEST Moodboard!
Wondering what to wear to this year’s fundraising festivities? Come as you are, or grab some inspiration from our 2026 mood board!
CANDELAR FEATURE: JULY
Katie Prock is a photographic artist and book maker. Prock earned her MFA in Studio Art at Florida Atlantic University. Her practice utilizes alternative printing techniques and incorporates handcrafted processes which emphasize chance occurrence and imperfections. Her work and research focus on topics such as identity, gender, family history, and girlhood. In addition to being exhibited across the United States, Prock’s work has been featured abroad in the Body + Memory + City Photo Festival in Alicante, Spain, and Fotofestival Lenzburg in Switzerland.
OPENING: UnBound15!
Candela Photographic Arts is excited to announce the opening of our fifteenth annual summer exhibition, UnBound15!, a group show featuring the work of 66 juried and invited artists from across the contemporary photographic landscape. This year’s exhibition will be on view from Wednesday, July 1st through Saturday, August 8th, 2026, and brings together a wide range of photographic practices. Featured works will also be viewable and available for purchase on our website throughout the run of the exhibition.
The UnBound! Party Becomes CANDELAFEST!
Join us on August 1 for CANDELAFEST!, The First-ish Annual Pagan Chicken Party & Summer Fundraiser as we prepare for another year of artist labor and collective possibilities. The evening welcomes the return of the beloved back alley fried chicken, live performers, raffle prizes, mildly mischievous activities, interactive pagan goddesses, and other ritual absurdities.
CANDELAR FEATURE: JUNE
Michael Young is a lens-based artist whose work explores themes of masculinity, personal identity, community, and memory. He has been named a Top 50 artist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass (2023, 2021), a Top 10 winner of LensCulture Critics’ Choice, and a winner of Feature Shoot’s Emerging Photography Award.