Photo-Role-Playing Tour, Artist Studio Visit: Northlight Gallery

Arizona Photography Alliance (AZPA) members will have the opportunity to meet and hear perspectives from curator and Director of Northlight Gallery, Dr. Cecilia Fajardo-Hill as she guides members through a private exhibition tour of Photo-Role-Playing. Work from AZPA members KJ Herb, Rennan Kooistra, and Dean Terasaki are included in this exhibition. The exhibition, Photo-Role-Playing, explores the relationship between photography and performance/performativity, involving embodiment, representation and self-representation, masquerading, enactment, role-play, body politics, gender and cultural identity. The evening will continue with a visit to the adjacent studio of Mehrdad Mirzaie, including discussions about his work. Mehrdad Mirzaie is an interdisciplinary artist, assistant curator, and educator currently based in Phoenix, Arizona. He received his MFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 2025 and is currently pursuing an MA in Art History, was recently awarded the 2026 Lenscratch 1st Place Student Prize for his project Garden. The tour is limited to 30 AZPA members.