Janet Russek + David Scheinbaum: Giverny: Opening Saturday, February 14, 2026

Photographers Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum have spent decades working individually and collaboratively, moving between personal projects and shared investigations. Their partnership enters into dialogue once again through a joint photographic exploration of Claude Monet’s Giverny  from February 14 to March 14, 2026.

For this series, Russek and Scheinbaum received special access to work within the gardens over the course of a number of years, returning as the landscape transformed with the seasons. The lush landscapes of Giverny are among the most studied in art history, inseparable from Monet’s legacy and his enduring influence on how we see color, light, and the natural world. Rather than pursuing the archetypal views most closely associated with the gardens, Russek and Scheinbaum approached Giverny through their distinct lines of inquiry, isolating fragments of form and color with shadows, reflections, and textures emerging as subjects in their own right. Every photograph is a microcosm of Giverny itself.

This series is informed by the early influences that shaped both artists. In their respective careers, both artists were assistants to pivotal figures in twentieth-century photography. Scheinbaum worked with Beaumont Newhall, whose writing and curatorial work shaped the foundations of photographic history, while Russek assisted Eliot Porter, celebrated for his groundbreaking use of color and devotion to the natural world. Their formative proximity to visionaries is palpable in this series, in which Russek and Scheinbaum are expanding on their decades long careers as storytellers themselves, translating the environment Monet created into a contemporary photographic language. The result is a body of work that is at once reverent and exploratory, grounded in tradition yet unafraid to look anew.

A new collaborative bilingual publication by Russek and Scheinbaum will be coming out in the fall of 2026, published by George Thompson Publishing, focusing on their series of Monet’s Giverny.