This Wednesday, Nov 12, from 4 to 7 pm, you are invited to the opening of a photo exhibit about our city's new CSO project, at the Gail Cahalan Gallery, 200 Allens Avenue, Providence. The show, by Peter Goldberg, is called "Providence Underground: Images of the Narragansett Bay Commission’s Combined Sewer Overflow Project." And while that might not sound too exciting, this was in fact an awesome project and very visually dramatic, so we are expecting an interesting show.

Goldberg starting shooting in the tunnel in 2004 and made four trips into its depths. "It was very dark and very wet," he recalls. "Every surface was slick. There was so much activity and noise in such a confined space that I had to be totally alert at all times and watch my every step. I was amazed by the people that worked in this environment every day."

Through his lens, the millions of tons of concrete and steel have moved beyond infrastructure to urban sculpture. Goldberg has captured each aspect of the project with precision and sensitivity, highlighting both the technological and human elements necessary to protect the water quality of our rivers and bay in his stunning black and white images.

The exhibit will be on display from November 10 - 24. Click here for info about the gallery. Click here for a google map. Click here to visit Goldberg's Web site.