An optometrist by trade, Milton Rogovin was also a socially aware documentary photographer in the tradition of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. He devoted his life to chronicling the lives of working people in the U.S. and abroad, the urban poor, native Americana and others striving to realize in their own fashion a piece of the American Dream.

This stalwart upholder of the West Coast tradition of photography doesn't strive for grandiose vistas, seeking instead less-obvious but equally rewarding compositions Informed and inspired by his love of architecture, space and sub stance. Cali them evanescent moments of rare elegance and intensity.

Art has always been integral to Sarah Hadley, who spent much of her childhood roaming among old master Venetian paintings at a prominent Boston museum. This unusual upbringing influenced her work as a photographer, especially her haunting series devoted to the city of Venice as it was before it became overrun with tourism. Her images evoke the soul of the city filtered through melancholy and tempered by lyricism.