The Scarab Club’s 55th Annual Photography Exhibition
The MF Gallery is pleased to announce that Founder and Director Meredith Fleischer has been appointed as the official Juror for the landmark 55th Annual Photography Exhibition at Detroit’s historic Scarab Club. Submissions close this Thursday, May 21, 2026.
The Galella Factory: A Collaboration with TheNeverZine
In the neon-saturated chaos of 1980s and 90s New York, one sound was as consistent as a taxi horn: the frantic clack-pop of a Galella shutter. Ron Galella was a cultural combatant who built a visual empire. As Meredith Fleischer curated the current collection of prints available for acquisition at The MF Gallery, a deeper legacy emerged: The Galella Factory. Read the full essay for TheNeverZine.
The Structural Break: Sequencing the Institutional Edit
Most photography projects fail when sentimentality creates "attention leaks" in the edit.
In this essay for f-stop Magazine, Meredith Fleischer examines "The Structural Break," offering a forensic guide to dismantling the B-roll fallacy and tightening your sequence. By refining your work to its essential core, Fleischer shows how to command the professional gaze with narrative inevitability.
Detroit 15 — Directorial Note
The Detroit 15 centers the sovereignty of The MF Gallery around the 15th Master, Chris Feinstein. It affirms the primacy of the Original Print and a cultural frequency uniting origin, absence, and resurrection. Though a musician, not a photographer, Chris Feinstein’s signal now defines the gallery’s visual orbit, first broadcast through Iodine, the band he built from the Source Code in the 1990s. The Lab serves as the gallery’s Juice-Integrated infrastructure, a site of unmediated creation beyond institutional gatekeeping.
The Detroit 15 is the Source Code.
The Director transmits.