The exhibition local/e presents the the work of artists who document a local area, near where they may reside, or who emphasize a sense of place. The selected works in this exhibition, featuring photography and video, reveal complex spaces, social interactions, and cultural and historical perspectives. Artists represented in this exhibition include Danielle Avram, Mark Luthringer, Diane McGurren, Lupita Murillo Tinnen, Kristy Peet, Luther Smith, Dylan Vitone, Byrd Williams, and has been curated by Associate Professor Marilyn Waligore.

The exhibition coincides with the Society of Photographic Education South Central Regional Conference—to be held October, 18-20, 2007 at the University of Texas at Arlington--and includes work by several SPE members.

Luther Smith, of Fort Worth, Texas, for seven years has recorded the Trinity River, an underrepresented feature of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, extending beyond those boundaries to cover over 550 miles. His panoramas remind the viewer of our collective need to preserve our natural environment, a fragile wilderness that often exists, almost unnoticed, adjacent to urban centers. Also invested in documenting the landscape is Canadian Danielle Avram, whose mesmerizing video of the Saskatchewan prairies evokes her own childhood memories, while emphasizing the experience of time. The beautiful yet harsh environment of the western Canadian prairies offers solitude with its expansive windswept vistas and the potential for a direct a connection to the land.

The long digital panoramas of Dylan Vitone pull the viewer onto the streets, and into the businesses, institutions, and recreation centers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a once prominent urban center now located in the nation's rustbelt. Vitone describes how the city and its residents respond to a local economy affected by deindustrialization, by striving to diversify and reinvent themselves. In her color photographs Lupita Murillo Tinnen of Plano, Texas, provides snippets of domestic interiors, framed details of the everyday, to portray the culture of recent immigrants from Mexico. For Murillo Tinnen the home becomes the "protective space" for undocumented immigrants.