Photography Is What Matters

This exhibition is a collaboration between the residents of Broadview, the retirement community on campus, and students from Purchase College. Through photographs and interviews, it explores the power of intergenerational learning and the role images play in shaping memory and identity.

The focus is on the photographs that matter most to Broadview residents—images that encapsulate their lives, experiences, and what they hold onto over time. How does one depict a lifetime in a single image? What are the photographs we choose to keep, and why? These questions frame an exhibition that considers the weight of images and the ways they carry meaning across generations.

Here, photography is not just about documentation but about selection—what remains, what is passed down, and what continues to resonate. Each image is a decision, a record of what endures. This project asks us to think about why certain photographs stay with us and how they help define what matters.