Terms of Endearment

Marité and Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I
October 2, 2026–January 10, 2027

Photographer Geoffrey Biddle’s Terms of Endearment will be on display in Marité and Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I and follows the many roles photography has played within his family over decades. Photographs made by his parents, pictures from his childhood, and images of his children and grandchildren trace Biddle’s changing position within a multigenerational family history. Cutting, sequencing, and returning to these photographs, he treats the family album as an active form shaped by repetition, distance, and conversation.

The exhibition also speaks to the ethics of making intimate lives visible. In his practice, Biddle’s questions of consent and privacy reveal family photography as both an expression of closeness and an ongoing negotiation of trust.

A vintage black-and-white photograph — two children (titled "Geoffrey and his sister as pirates") sitting on wooden posts on a dock or pier, dressed in playful pirate-style costumes with headscarves, one biting a "knife" prop, near a lake with trees in the background.

Geoffrey and his sisters and pirates, Photograph printed on aluminum

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