Program in Historic Downtown Wilson, NC


The 11th Edition will launch on May 31, 2025. it will run from 05.31.2025 - 10.31.2025



The Party & The First Walk


The Party for our Sponsors

Guests and photographers from around the World will join us to make this an unforgettable happening.

The House of Jérôme & Rosa De Perlinghi; Friday, May 30, 2025 at 6.30 PM

By invitation only, inquiries must be sent to eyesonmainstreetinc@gmail.com


An evening in music with Cora Rose as special guest, please listen to the track in the link below:

https://corarose.bandcamp.com/track/change

Partner of resident photographer José Luis Vilchez, Cora will return to Wilson to the great delight of her many friends here.




The Walk

Join us for a 90 minutes walk around the 100 new photographs of the 10th Edition on Saturday, May 31 at 4.30PM meeting in front of our American Center for Photographers (ACP), 230 Goldsboro Street S, Wilson, NC 27893. Up to 20 photographers will walk with us and share their experience with you.




The Lectures


The 4 selected photographers will speak about the unique experience of doing a residency in a small community in Eastern North Carolina. We will learn everything about their challenges. They will share with us their methods and ideas of working in an environment they did not know and they will tell us why or how this experience was an interesting break in their daily life.


-Saturday May 31, 2025, 10AM: Jared Ragland, USA


-Saturday May 31, 2025, 2PM: Louise Oligny, Canada


-Sunday June 1, 2025, 11AM:  Meg Hewitt, Australia


-Sunday June 1, 2025, 2.30PM: Marc Chaumeil, France




The Imagination Station. 224 Nash Street E., Wilson, NC 27893


Lectures are free but reservations by email are strongly  recommended: eyesonmainstreetinc@gmail.com



-Free Photography Workshop; TBA


Please, contact Jeidy Cruz at The American Center for more infos and participation:

americancenterforphotographers@gmail.com


This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural Resources, with funding from the national Endowment for the Arts.



Eyes on Main Street Galleries: The American Center for Photographers


-ACP Gallery is located at 230 Goldsboro Street S, Wilson, NC 27893 (across the Whirligig Park)


To Access ACP Website: Click Here


-The Eyes on Wilson, indoor exhibition will launch on May 31, 2025. This show will cover the 7 years of the program. 68 photographers from around the world came to Wilson, NC, USA, each for one month to photograph all segments of our community between September 2027 and April 2024. 

Over 400 photographs will be on display at The American Center for Photographers from May 31 to July 31, 2025.





Diana Bagnoli, Wilson, NC, USA 2018




International Partnerships


Click on the photo to see the video

See the video link on the photograph above



South Korea



Eyes on Main Street will be a partner of the 18th Jeonju International Photography Festival (04.26.2025 - 05.11.2025) for the 5th Time. We will display 20 large scale images from our 2024 10th Anniversary Edition in South Korea.

http://www.jpf.co.kr/



China



After six years of partnership with this wonderful photography in China, we took a year off in 2024, but we hope to resume this collaboration in 2025.


Malaysia



Eyes on Main Street was in August 2024 a partner of the Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, in Malaysia, for a 9th consecutive year.  A selection of 15 images from the 10th edition were selected and put on display in the malaysian Capital. We hope to have a new partnership in place in the Summer of 2025.

http://klpf.com.my



Jérôme De Perlinghi,

Artistic Director



Contact us by email:

eyesonmainstreetinc@gmail.com




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