The photo group will be hosting a field trip to Hamtramck on Friday, July 17, at 7pm to hear an artist talk by Roger Martin at the Barbershop art and book gallery. The Barbershop is located at 3432 Caniff St. in Hamtramck, MI, 48212. The talk is free and open to the public.
Roger Martin was a student at Wayne State University when he began to document the Cass Corridor neighborhood forty years ago in the 1970s. His work is on display at the Barbershop ever Saturday with the show closing on Saturday July 18.
Born in Dearborn in 1949, Martin began attending photography workshops through the Photo Guild of Detroit in 1963. He has shown his work across metro Detroit, including at the Detroit Artists Market, the Gallery of Photography, the Gabriel Richard Gallery, the Detroit Public Library, and the Scarab Club.