Corey Armpriester, recently designated an Emerging Photographer in the Best of 2002 Photography Forum, presents PHILADELPHIA: PUBLIC ADDRESS at PII Gallery, 242 Race Street in Old City, March 7 to March 31.

The exhibition features two photographic series highlighting the architecture and design of Center City Philadelphia. Text 1320 Pine Street is a series of interior portraits of a five-floor tenement house in historic Center City Philadelphia.

Armpriester describes the series, " It draws attention to the poverty, powerless and isolation of its tenants by paying particular attention to the numerous and frequent directions that are posted by property management and contrasts this voice of invisible authority with the equally unwelcoming and impersonal hallways and stairwells of the building. The work was borne out of my examination of the cliché " you are as important as your address." This is a house outside of its element and disconnected from the neighborhood, secretly existing in a zip code where it does not belong. Many people are surprised to discover that tenement housing still exists in a neighborhood characterized by the affluence and prosperity of urban professionals. In this photographic series, I am challenging these common misperceptions while recording my own autobiographical experience as a resident."

Downtown Polaroids is a series of triptych Polaroids of Philadelphia doors and tombstones. The majority of the doors were found in Elfreth's Alley, the oldest street in the United States, where residents are required to open their homes to the public annually. The tombstones and addresses of the dead were found at historic Old Pine Street Church

Corey Armpriester, a native Philadelphian, has exhibited at B Square Gallery, October Gallery, DaVinci Art Alliance in Philadelphia and Leslie Lohman Gallery in New York. Selections from Text 1320 Pine will be featured in the Exposure Gallery at the City Paper web site, www.citypaper.com, from March 3 to March 31st. Other photographic works by Armpriester may be found at InLiquid.com and Sexmuse.org.

Armpriester studied at the International Center for Photography and apprenticed with noted Philadelphia photographer, Tony Ward. He is the first place winner of the 2003 Writers Journal National Photographic Contest.