Exhibition - By the Tide: Photographs by Edward Boches

By the Tide, an exhibit of 60 black and white photographs by documentary photographer Edward Boches, will be on exhibit all of July at Wellfleet Preservation Hall. Opening and raw bar, Wednesday, July 16, 5–7:30.

By the Tide, an exhibit of 60 black and white photographs by documentary photographer Edward Boches will open at Preservation Hall on July 1, 2025 and be on exhibit for the entire month.

The July exhibit, with support from the Wellfleet Oyster Association, will feature an opening and celebration of the community, complete with a raw bar, on Wednesday, July 16, from 5 – 7:30 pm, and an artist talk and education evening on Friday, July 18, from 5-6:30 pm. Both events are open to the public.

As part of an ongoing effort to document where our food comes from, how it’s grown and who grows it, Boches has been photographing the Wellfleet shellfishing community for the last six years. By the Tide presents images from this ongoing project and includes photographs of shellfishermen and women working their grants, dipping and staking hats, and hauling oysters out of their winter storage.

The exhibit fills all three floors of the hall, and represents the work, the place, the shellfish raised here and many of the men and women for whom shellfishing is a way of life.