Gallery Opening - Elizabeth Opalenik: Selected Works

Join us at Gallery 270 on Thursday, October 9, 2025, from 7:00pm–9:00pm for the opening of Elizabeth Opalenik: Selected Works. This free event is part of Bergen County Camera’s 45th Anniversary celebration, and we can’t wait to celebrate with you! Enjoy wine, cheese, and art at this free gallery opening, part of Bergen County Camera’s 45th Anniversary celebration series.

All are welcome - we hope to see you there!

Elizabeth Opalenik is regarded as one of the most creative photographers of our time. She is celebrated for her sensual images, including explorations in the Mordançage process (taught to her by the master, Jean Pierre Sudre), hand-painted black and white, infrared films, Polaroid manipulations, and specialized toning. From carbon and platinum printing to digital printing on exquisite handmade papers, Elizabeth has always embraced experimentation - finding her unique voice as a photographic artist and proving that all good photographs are self-portraits that lie somewhere between imagination and dreams.

Over more than four decades, she has been a highly sought-after educator, teaching internationally on the figure, portraiture, and alternative processes. In addition to leading private workshops, she has been a longtime instructor with the Maine Media Workshops, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and National Geographic Expeditions, among others. Her images are held in museum, gallery, and private collections worldwide - including La Bibliothèque Nationale in France, The Portland Museum of Art, and The Milwaukee Art Museum. She has been shown in over sixty exhibitions internationally.

As Elizabeth says, “from portraits to landscapes, our images are stepping stones that trace where the mind has been and form the unique vision each of us carries through life.” Elizabeth teaches that by revealing ourselves, we discover new ways of seeing. Her desire is to respond to the light and to the essence of the subject of her images, creating a lasting yet momentous representation of a lifetime of moments and experience.

Her artistry also finds expression in her monograph, which will be featured at the gallery and available for purchase during the show.

Elizabeth Opalenik's first monograph, “Poetic Grace: Elizabeth Opalenik Photographs 1979-2007” is available in signed and limited editions at Gallery 270. We’re thrilled to represent Elizabeth and to access the full range of her one of a kind photographic works from her four decade plus career.

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