Double Take

A Photographic Exhibition by Lynne Breitfeller and Christine Back

Sept. 8, 2025 to Oct. 13, 2025

Artist Reception Monday, Sept. 8 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Double Take brings together two New Jersey photographic artists — Lynne Breitfeller and Christine Back — whose work explores themes of time, transformation, and the mutable nature of memory. Through separate yet thematically connected projects, both artists ask us to consider the impermanence of relationships, the fragility of personal archives, and the ever-shifting ways we remember.

Lynne Breitfeller

In After the Fire: Water Damaged, Breitfeller revisits a trove of negatives altered by a fire and water over two decades ago. Though much of her archive was destroyed, a small collection of water-damaged images remained—emulsion warped, subjects obscured, details distorted. Rediscovered during the pandemic, these transformed artifacts speak to both loss and resilience. In embracing their accidental beauty, Breitfeller reframes what once seemed ruined, finding new meaning in the echoes of the past.

Christine Back

Back’s PV Revisited returns to Pascack Valley High School, where she once taught photography and created portraits of her students in the early 2000s. Two decades later, she tracks them down and recreates those original portraits — this time of adults in their thirties, roughly the age she was when she first photographed them. With careful attention to pose, lighting, and environment, Back explores the constancy and evolution of identity, while leaving space for speculation: Who have these students become? What remains of who they once were?

Taken together, these projects offer a meditation on the passage of time. Both artists revisit the past with fresh eyes, honoring what has changed—and what hasn’t. Double Take invites viewers to look again, and look closer.