Twenty Summers Presents: Fragments in Time, photographs by Ashley Gilbertson and Franco Pagetti

— Renowned war photographers examine the role and responsibility of bearing witness to conflict — 

“Fragments in Time,” a powerful, two-artist exhibit of photographs that challenge our understanding of the human toll of conflict, is making  its  Provincetown debut at TwentySummers Stanley gallery. 

The exhibit, opening on October 10th,  features the work of renowned photojournalists Ashley Gilbertson and Franco Pageti. 

Fragments in Time brings together two distinct photographic voices in a tightly woven visual conversation that ranges in subject matter from  war torn lands to refugee camps to New York during the pandemic and beyond. 

Though their assignments in conflict zones have taken them to different countries —Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and others — Gilbertson’s and Pagetti’s work in this sphere overlaps in theme and sensibility. The photographs examine soldiers’ and civilians’ experience of war, the emotional residue of violence, and the personal, often ambiguous role of the photographer as witness. War, the artists suggest, is not an event but a state that persists in bodies, landscapes, and memory.

At Stanley, these and other images—intimate, unflinching, and formally rigorous— will be installed in close proximity, allowing the viewer to move between scenes of devastation, reflection, solitude, and survival. 

The exhibit is presented with the cooperation of Monroe Gallery of Photography in Sante Fe, New Mexico.  

The artists: Ashley Gilbertson, a founding member of VII Photo Agency, and Franco Pagetti, a longtime TIME Magazine contributor, have each built careers defined by deep fieldwork and an ethical commitment to the stories behind the headlines. In Fragments in Time, their shared themes—displacement, endurance, the moral complexity of documentation—resonate across borders and contexts.

Fragments in Time opens at Stanley, 494 Commercial St. in Provincetown, on Friday, October 10, 2025. It runs through Sunday, January 18, 2026.