at an arm's length: Expanding the Walls 2025at an arm's length: Expanding the Walls 2025ExhibitionJuly 29, 2025–June 21, 2026

At The Studio Museum in Harlem, *at an arm’s length: Expanding the Walls 2025* presents new work by young photographers connected to the museum’s long-running Expanding the Walls program, a pipeline for New York City teens entering the medium with seriousness. The exhibition tracks how proximity, distance, and daily life shape what gets recorded and what gets left out. It sits in the museum’s Harlem context, where questions of representation and authorship have institutional weight. The strongest images argue, quietly, that documentary truth is negotiated, not simply found.