Rebecca Norris Webb photographs the complicated and vulnerable relationship between humans and urban creatures. Ms. Norris Webb has pictured captive animals in cities across the world, including New York, Chicago, Havana, Istanbul, New Delhi, and Paris. Often, the images are shot through some sort of transparent barrier, such as the glass tanks in aquariums, the specimen cases in natural history museums, or the Plexiglas walls of monkey houses. The resultant images are sublime, layered so that a silhouetted human appears to be ascending a stairway through a large aquarium, or a woman in a natural history museum is eclipsed by the stuffed bear before her. The exhibition will coincide with the release of Ms. Norris Webb’s book by the same title, published by Channel Photographics.

Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb began photographing in 1988. Her project, The Glass Between Us was featured in the Griffin Museum of Photography in 2005, and awarded sponsorship by the Blue Earth Alliance. Her work has been exhibited at the Zucchi Museum (Milan), the Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle, WA), the Fine Art Work Center (Provincetown, MA), and will be included in the George Eastman House exhibition “Why Look at Animals?”