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I know what you're thinking.
"I'm not that into photography... I'm going to ignore Rachel's advice on this one, bathe myself in Natty Boh and watch TGIF on Friday, instead of going out to an art show...."

BUSTED.

Go change into something adorable, and I'll tell you why this is a show you shouldn't miss.

You know those creepy broken-windowed factory buildings you see from 95 coming into the city from DC? Don't you ever wonder what was made there... or what might be sitting forgotten in a building left abandoned like that? Mike O'Hara is a self-taught photographer who explores the...ahem..."shadier" parts of Baltimore via bicycle and captures the dilapidated pieces of the city left replacing the once-functional. In this, his first solo exhibition, he'll exhibit a series of shots he took from sneaking into said buildings and warehouses. He finds some pretty incredible stuff, and dares to touch on places that you or I might not touch with a 10 foot pole. Sound like a menace? Get him talking, and you'll think otherwise in a matter of minutes. The term "beautiful decay" would be appropriate here.... the photos don't show disgust with what's abandoned, but rather, a sincerely impressed interest for what comes from disregard.
If you don't walk out having just purchased your first photograph, you'll at least walk out feeling a little more "in" on the buildings in the Baltimore skyline that you hadn't noticed were there before. Could it have been the enormous Boh sign blinding your view?

May 9th
6-9pm
916 N. Charles Street-Baltimore, MD-21201