For more than a decade, photographer Taylor Galloway returned to his family’s farm in rural Virginia, documenting the land and the people whose lives have unfolded there for generations. The resulting body of work, across the street from Heaven, recently published by Deadbeat Club, is a meditation on family, memory, belonging, and the passage of time.

Join Galloway in conversation with Allie Haeusslein to discuss the project’s origins and evolution, the rewards and challenges of sustaining a long-term photographic project, and the process of editing and sequencing more than a decade of photographs into the book form. The program will begin with a screening of a short film Galloway is developing in conjunction with this body of work, inviting a discussion of how moving image, sound, and photography coexist and what each medium brings to the project.

Taylor Galloway is a Los Angeles–based artist whose practice explores personal history and the ways lived experience shapes memory and perception. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and published in The New York Times. across the street from Heaven is his first monograph.

Allie Haeusslein is the Curator of Photography at SFO Museum. Previously, she was a Director at Pier 24 Photography, where she worked on exhibitions, publications, and public programs. She conceived and edited Photographers Looking at Photographs (Pier 24 Photography, 2019) and co-edited Soft Eyes (Deadbeat Club, 2024), which accompanied an exhibition she curated at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel. Her writing has appeared in ART21 Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Foam Magazine, and HOTSHOE, among others.