ARTIST STATEMENT
I am drawn to the ways people gather, move alongside one another, and carry familiar customs into changing cities. Working in black and white helps me attend to expression, texture, and relationships. My photographs often begin with curiosity about a small encounter, but they also ask how public life is shaped by belonging, labor, and the places people share.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kim Potowski is a street photographer drawn to small gestures, proximities, and passing encounters in public space. Working almost exclusively in black and white, she tends to photograph people transiting cities and explores how identity, tradition, and social bonds emerge through work, celebration, and the routines that shape communal life. Her solo show “Oaxaca Firme” was shown at the MUPO Museum in Oaxaca, Mexico and at the UNAM-Chicago, and the photobook was published in 2026. Her photographs have appeared in group shows in Chicago, St. Louis, and Glasgow.
© Kim Potowski