“BULLET THE BLUE SKY”: Jackie Neale, whose work is shown here, and Mel Evans will be featured at the “Twosday Talks” photography presentation on November 8 at 6:30 p.m. The event will be held both in person at Mercer County Community College’s JKC Gallery in Trenton and online via Zoom.

Mercer County Community College’s James Kerney Campus (JKC) Gallery at 137 North Broad Street in Trenton hosts its next “Twosday Talks” photography presentation November 8 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. This month will feature works and presentations by artists Mel Evans and Jackie Neale. Talks will take place live and on the Zoom conferencing platform. All are invited to register at jkcgallery.online.

“Twosday Talks” is curated by Heather Palecek and Habiyb Shu’Aib and hosted by Professor Michael Chovan-Dalton, director of JKC Gallery.

Chovan-Dalton said, “This will be our last ‘Twosday Talks’ of the semester and I am pleased to welcome artists Jackie Neale and Mel Evans who will share their works and discuss their personal approaches to artistic expression.”

Neale is a Brooklyn- and Philadelphia-based artist, photographer, imaging specialist, photo director, and producer who is inspired through interpersonal relationships and the barrier that disappears/appears once a camera is introduced to the mix. Also an author, Neale focuses on using historical, traditional, digital and experimental processes for multimedia documentary portrait projects. A professor of photography at Saint Joseph’s University and New York Film Academy in New York City, Neale is known for her work in social activism and chronicling the experience of immigration in the U.S. and Europe.

Exhibitions of Neale’s photographs have been mounted in galleries and museums throughout the United States. She has appeared on National Public Radio, and in the documentary Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film. Her work has been published in magazines across the United States, online, and in collateral for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Neale has recently raised funds to self-publish her photo book, #SubwaySeries.

Evans joins “Twosday Talks” with a 40-year history of photojournalism. Making photographs nearly every workday of his life, Evans’ goal is to make every photograph as interesting and artful as the situation allows. Thousands of Evans’ images have been published in newspapers, magazines, and websites in the United States and around the globe.

Retired from the Associated Press in 2017, Evans continues to take editorial and commercial assignments while segueing into newer projects that satisfy his own creative pursuits and desires. Currently, he is focused on taking a serious approach to alternative and historic processes in large format in his words, “trying to learn as much as possible from and honor those who went before.”

For more information, visit JKCGallery.online.