People over time

“Dinner Series: Lights Out, Chilmark, MA, July 5, 1998” (pigment print), by Stephen DiRado, in his show “Better Together: Four Decades of Photographs,’’ at the Fitchburg (Mass.) Art Museum, through June 1.

— Courtesy of the artist.

The museum says:

“Throughout his career, DiRado has worked in series, usually spanning many years and involving thousands of images, creating and representing communities of people in Worcester and Martha’s Vineyard. His photographic practice is intimately intertwined with his life – DiRado carries a camera everywhere and makes photographs every day. He operates within many of the great art historical traditions – portraiture, landscape, still life, and the nude. Through an aesthetic that combines realism and symbolism, he evokes deep human emotions like joy, melancholy, boredom, sensuality, vulnerability, compassion, and most of all, love. DiRado also creates images of the night sky, connecting celestial events with human culture.’’