Last year, over the course of several months, more than 50 Dunedin households opened their doors to photographer Les Slesnick and became the subjects of his up-close-and-personal examination of cultural values. Private Spaces: The Dunedin Project is the fourth photo collection of Slesnick's U.S.-based series, which chronicles the lives and homes of small-town Americans. According to Slesnick, an enormous amount of info can be collected by studying the contents and seemingly unimportant details of a home, and the photos he takes are mostly "peopleless portraits" that tell a great deal about the individuals without actually showing them. Private Spaces opened yesterday at the Dunedin Fine Art Center along with James Perry Walker: The Preacher and His Congregation, a series of images by Walker that document the Black Baptist circuit, and Elizabeth Faubert's American Sign Language Series and Photo-Synthesis: DFAC Photographers. Through Feb. 17, 1143 Michigan Blvd., Dunedin, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun., 727-298-3322, dfac.org.
