Beauty from throughout New Jersey is on display in NJ Photography Forum’s ‘The Garden State’ exhibition
By: TRIS McCALL | Published: 2025-08-04 19:18:00 | Source: www.njarts.net
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George Mattei’s “Little Girl on the Beach” is part of New Jersey Photography Forum’s “The Garden State” exhibition at The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.
Most states don’t maintain their own mythology. But in New Jersey, our civic minds work differently. Even when we are grousing about where we live, New Jersey identity is a badge of honor. To live in Jersey is to be sensitive to the particularities of place. It is also to understand that the things inscribed in the landscape we inhabit are written into our souls.
But which landscape? For a small state, New Jersey is famously varied. Northern mountains, southern bays, eastern rail towns and western farmlands all have their own distinctive visual signatures. What unifies the plots in our…
