Photographer Lee Mary Manning (b. 1972, Alton, Illinois) models a method of close and care-filled looking in carefully arranged juxtapositions of 35mm analog prints. Taking familiar objects and scenes as their subject matter, Manning’s photos picture people, nature, the street, and everything in between. Conceptualizing “paying attention as a practice of being alive,” the artist insists on the importance and meaning of quiet moments and humdrum things that might initially seem unremarkable.