THE SILVER LINING
IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER —
FOR IS IT DAWN 'TIL DUSK OR DUSK 'TIL DAWN
WHEN YOU WAKE FROM THOSE DREAMS
IN THIS STRANGE, STRANGE WORLD?











La Quinceañera, Eduardo Soto-Gonzalez

“Dreams aren’t clear. You see many of things and they get mixed up.” 



Desert Mystique, Sam Jones

“…something involving symbolic transcendence.”

Brutalist Heaven, Mason Badsing

Brutalist Heaven, Mason Badsing

“[Transparant eyeball is] basically taking in nature and the world around you,
but not leaving an imprint on it. Just absorbing it.”

For You, Tyler Drzewiecki

For You, Tyler Drzewiecki

“What they have in common is us, all of us here in this class.”

Forcing / For Seeing, Marley Provenzano

Forcing / For Seeing, Marley Provenzano

“Life is not one thing; it’s both, and at once.”

Night Industry, Connor Arevalo

Night Industry, Connor Arevalo

“It feels like a dream sequence that we’re going through.”

At Night, Aaron Duarte

At Night, Aaron Duarte

“Maybe it means… look at what is there, not what isn’t there.”

Safe Haven, Rebekkah Culp

Safe Haven, Rebekkah Culp

“You can’t really leave a trace there anymore — you’re just observing.
That is all you can do with photography.
You just observe and feel what you feel about it.”






An Exhibition by Darkroom I & II students of McHenry County College, Spring 2026. Throughout our semester,  students explored connections between their photographs and shared experiences of the slow process of analog photography. Together they collaborated in titling the exhibition and reflecting on the common threads running through the work, discovering meaning not only within single images, but in the collective atmosphere created between them. As the show took shape so did connections to transcendentalist thought, the dream logic of David Lynch, and recurring ideas of light ascending and fading within the rhythm of dawn to dusk. We invite you to listen to their discussion to hear how these ideas surfaced and how the photographs gradually began speaking to one another.