Dear Objects: Photographs, Objects, and the Stories We Carry

We invite you to the private viewing of Dear Objects: Photographs, Objects, and the Stories We Carry, a collaboration between SCAD Photography and guest mentor Charlene Lam, Founder of The Grief Gallery® and Creator of Curating Grief®, with the support of the Feinglos Fund and nonprofit partner PAUSE.

Dear Objects is an exhibition exploring memory, objects, storytelling, and loss through photography. A photograph, article of clothing, letter, family heirloom, souvenir, key, or everyday belonging can contain traces of a person, relationship, identity, place, or moment in time. Photography has long served as a means of documentation and preservation, but it can also be a way of honoring, interpreting, questioning, and reimagining what remains after loss.

Developed by SCAD Photography in partnership with The Grief Gallery® and Curating Grief®, this exhibition invites photographers to consider the role images can play in making visible experiences that are often difficult to describe.

Selected student works will be exhibited alongside a curated installation of meaningful objects and stories from The Grief Gallery®, creating a dialogue between photographs and objects, memory and materiality, absence and presence.

As part of the participatory exhibition, you’re invited to bring a meaningful object to our Pop-Up Photo Studio to be photographed and added to an evolving digital display.

*Open to public with RSVP

Sat. 10/24/2026, 3:30-5:30pm

Graham Scott building

641 Indian Street, Savannah

*Follows a Featured Speaker Presentation by Charlene Lam for SCAD students and faculty at 2pm at River event space, by invitation of SCAD Photography.