Webber Gallery and Awol Erizku are delighted to announce the 2025 Yale MFA Photography Graduate exhibition First Breath Second Sight. On view Saturday, 30 August through 25 October, 2025.

It’s not that we have to stay here. It’s not that one less picture means the tomb. But to leave the field is to concede desire itself; it is far better to stay than to stop wanting. The world seems to understand this. By some good will, its days and details regenerate, sharing in our medium of endurance. Again, the photographer approaches their subject: I love you. Thank you. I’m sorry. Can I see what it looks like if you—?

This is a tender appeal, and it surely wears over time. It may appear formless, a collection of apologetic tones, selected for some reason long ago when the photographer began to perceive the consequences of their wanting. To want is an exquisite and heavy thing, but to want through images is an even more sensitive ballast.

Excerpts from The Field, by Bella Convertino

Exhibition Artists: Vani Bhushan, David Billet, Bella Convertino, Olivia Crumm, Christopher Desanges, Luis Manuel Diaz, Jeremy Grier, Leor Miller, Aliaksandra Tuch