Time in New Brunswick

"Time in New Brunswick," is a photographic exhibit permanently installed at Rockoff Hall University Apartments.

To create this unique study, New Brunswick Development Corporation (Devco) commissioned photographers from Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts to photograph the city of New Brunswick over the course of a year. In 120 photographs, made principally in 2004 and 2005, "Time in New Brunswick" looks carefully at the city from multiple perspectives - its cultural and architectural heritage, the diversity of its populations, and the varieties of its prosperity.

The goal was not just a collection of excellent pictures -- intellectually rigorous, emotionally resonant and aesthetically refined - but a sustained photographic investigation, a relay of meaning between these pictures. As observers, the photographers have striven to see, to imagine, and most of all to open themselves - and so to open the viewers - to the complex actuality of New Brunswick in our own time.

The exhibition focuses on a remarkable moment in the city's history, a moment in which the city's renewal joins the traces of its past to the hopes for its future, and the work of many who know and care for this important place.

Photographs by:
Jason Francisco, Assistant Professor in photography and visual studies Mason Gross School of the Arts
Deborah Bowie M.F.A. Mason Gross School of the Arts, 2004
Jamie Lyn Mitchell, M.F.A. Mason Gross School of the Arts, 2005