Photographer Paul Gillespie Presents “Every Picture Tells A Story, Don’t It?”

For more than three decades, Paul Gillespie has worked as a newspaper photojournalist, photographing assignments throughout Anne Arundel County and beyond. But photography has never been limited to his work. For years, he has continued to photograph simply because it is how he experiences the world — from the moon overhead to the people and passing moments he encounters on the street.

That personal work is at the heart of his new solo exhibition, “Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It? People, Places, and Passing Moments,” at the Patricia Barland Gallery at the Chesapeake Arts Center in Brooklyn Park.

The exhibition’s title reflects Gillespie’s belief that photographs can carry stories beyond the moment in which they were made.

The exhibition brings together Gillespie’s street portraits and work made primarily over the past several years, along with photographs of musicians, places and fleeting moments that caught his attention. It also includes photographs of the moon, a subject dear to his heart. A selection of images from his “Journalists Matter: Faces of the Capital Gazette” project connects the exhibition to an important chapter of his life while keeping the focus on the broader range of work he has made away from his newspaper assignments.

“Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It?” opens with a reception from 6:00pm-8:00pm on September 10 and runs through November 8.