About this Event
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of photography at Leica Store and Gallery Meatpacking with our electrifying Saturday Morning series, Behind the Binding!
Join us for an invigorating presentation with photographer Caleb Stein as he reveals the stories behind the project and publication, Down by the Hudson.
Programming begins promptly at 11:00 AM.
Seating is first-come, first-served.
Following the talk, indulge in signed books with the artist!
Seating is limited, so be sure to reserve your spot in advance!
Down by the Hudson
Published by Palo Gallery Press
Down by the Hudson presents over a decade of summers Caleb Stein spent photographing a creek in Poughkeepsie, New York. Since 2013, Stein has returned to the same stretch of water each year, observing the recurring rhythms of friendship, gathering, and care that define this communal space. What began as documentation gradually became a lyrical and tender ode to the freedom and Edenic sense of community the place elicits.
Caleb Stein (b. 1994, UK) is a multimedia artist currently based in the U.S. His conceptual, documentary work often takes the form of photographic installations, multi-channel video works, and artist books that engage with questions around the collective, community, and the relationship between photography, perception, and memory.
Stein’s work has been exhibited internationally, often as an artist duo with Andrea Orejarena (b. 1994, Colombia). Stein’s work can be found in a number of public & private collections, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Nguyen Art Foundation, Sixteen World Collection, The New York State Museum, and the Ann Tenenbaum & Thomas H. Lee Family Collection. His work has been exhibited at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, FOAM, Deichtorhallen, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Photoforum Pasquart, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Webber Gallery, Red Hook Labs, The Curator’s Room, PHMuseum, Belfast Photo Festival, Photo Vogue Festival, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, ROSEGALLERY, Palo Gallery, and Vin Gallery.
Stein’s work has been published in The New York Times, Kunstforum International, LA Review of Books, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, The British Journal of Photography, i-D Vice, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, and FOAM, among many other places.
Books include ‘Long Time No See’ (made as an artist duo with Andrea Orejarena), published by Jiazazhi Press in 2022 with texts by Do Tuong Linh and Forensic Architecture, ‘How to Move a Mountain’, published by Luhz Press in 2024 with an introduction by David Campany, ‘American Glitch’ (made as an artist duo with Andrea Orejarena), published by Gnomic Book in 2024 with an introduction by David Campany and a text booklet with contributions from 35 writers, artists, and curators offering their reflections on contemporary conceptions of glitch, ‘Glitch Typologies’ (Palo Gallery Press, 2025) with a text by Nadine Isabelle Henrich, ‘Down by the Hudson’ (Palo Gallery Press, 2026) with texts by Amitava Kumar, Anita N. Bateman, Matt Carey-Williams, and Daniel Wolff, and ‘Car Wash’ (forthcoming, 2026 with Luhz Press) edited by David Campany.
These books are held in the special collections at MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University, Princeton University, Stanford University, The Rijksmuseum, and The Center for Book Arts, among other places.
Orejarena & Stein’s first solo museum show ‘Viral Hallucinations: Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein’s Tactics & Mythologies’ was on view at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in the early fall of 2024 until early 2025, curated by Nadine Isabelle Henrich; the exhibition includes new sculptural, installation, and video components. The exhibition travelled to PhotoForum Pasquart in Switzerland for an iteration of the work curated by Amelie Schüle. An iteration of the work will be included in Fotomuseum Winthertur curator Marco de Muutis’s digital sector of Paris Photo at the Grand Palais, with Palo Gallery showing work from the Deichtorhallen/Pasquart travelling museum show.
Stein’s work is represented by PALO Gallery, ROSEGALLERY in LA, and Vin Gallery in HCMC/Shanghai.
Stein has been nominated for a number of awards including a LensCulture nomination by Legacy Russell (Senior Director, The Kitchen) and a nomination for the Anne Wilkes Tucker Young Photographer Award at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
As an artist duo, Orejarena & Stein are the recipients of the 2024 FOAM Talent Award and the 2024 Center for Photographic Art Artist Grant. Orejarena & Stein have also been nominated for a number of awards, including the Hariban/Benrido Award (chosen by Yasufumi Nakamori).
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