FotoFocus has opened “Big Tent,” the inaugural exhibition at its new FotoFocus Center, a 14,700-square-foot facility at 228 East Liberty Street in Cincinnati built to house photographic exhibitions and year-round programs. The exhibition runs through August 22, 2026, and is accompanied by a series of gallery talks.

The exhibition brings together photographs spanning the better part of the past century. Partly inspired by the poem “In This Place (An American Lyric)” by Amanda Gorman, the show uses the concept of “big tent” as a metaphor for what the organization describes as “the fraught yet aspirational nature of American civic life and its democratic ideals.” Themes include equality, pluralism, and freedom of speech.

“Big Tent is uniquely suited to engage viewers in dialogue around the question of photography and its relationship to democracy,” said FotoFocus Executive Director Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth. The exhibition features work by Dawoud Bey, Robert Frank, Gordon Parks, Catherine Opie, Alec Soth, Robert Mapplethorpe, An-My Lê, and dozens of other artists.

Source: https://www.fotofocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/FotoFocus-2026-Exhibition-Big-Tent-Program-Press-Release.pdf