Bringing together a lifetime of photographs, The Documentary Photography of Mary Motley Kalergis: A 50-Year Retrospective examines the bonds that connect individuals, families, and communities—and what happens when those bonds are tested, broken, or remade.

Across twelve portfolios, Kalergis turns her camera toward some of the most intimate and consequential experiences of human life: childbirth, marriage, adoption, adolescence, immigration, race, family, and marginalized communities.