Wayland Photo Exhibit Will Showcase New U.S. Citizens

WAYLAND, MA — A photography exhibit documenting Massachusetts residents gaining U.S. citizenship is coming to Wayland. Photographer Mark Chester's "The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape" is on display now.

Here's more from a news release about the exhibit:

Wayland Public Library is pleased to be presenting the work of photographer Mark Chester. His traveling exhibit, The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape – Photographs Of New Americans, is on display through Sept. 30 at the Wayland Free Public Library, 5 Concord Road. It will be open during regular library hours.

Mark Chester’s powerful photographs showcase Massachusetts’ newest citizens, who hail from 190 countries and territories around the globe. Through Mark Chester’s lens, viewers can share and celebrate the vast ethnic heritage and rich cultural history of the Bay State’s 351 towns and cities.

As the son of an immigrant, professional photographer Mark Chester developed a curiosity about the new Americans who were becoming citizens of Massachusetts.

Chester attended naturalization ceremonies across the state to personally meet some of the hundreds of individuals who have become America’s newest citizens and residents of the Commonwealth. Mark’s long career has taken him around the world. His photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, the Boston Globe among a host of other national publications. He was the photographer for Charles Kuralt’s Dateline America. His most recent book is Twosomes.