Exhibition of photographs from a transit of Soviet Russia and the Caucasus Soviets for six days in September, 1972, by Raleigh Powell, M.D.

Dr. Powell started processing his own B&W monochrome film at age 14. Inspired by seeing commercial photo-prints emerge in the developing trays at a local stationary store darkroom, he taught himself gelatin silver print-making throughout his high school years at a virtually unused US Amry darkroom near his hometown.

The aspiring physician took his pre-med Biology degree from Virginia Tech, and in 1968, his MD degree from the Medical College of Virginia. He practiced Emergency and Acute-Care Medicine in Richmond and surrounding countries from 1972-2022, all the while privately traveling and photographing locally in the South, and abroad, primarily in the Middle Rocky Mountain West and in Southwest Louisiana.

The thirty-some prints on display in the Gellman Room at the E. Franklin St. Main Library this April represent Dr. Powell’s first exclusively solo exhibition.