“Shalom, Sisters,” a photography exhibit by Phyllis Graber Jensen of Lewiston, is on display through Sunday, Oct. 3, at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland.

The exhibit features 20 photographs of Jewish women and girls affiliated with Auburn’s Temple Shalom Synagogue-Center, a community Jensen joined when she moved to Lewiston in 1992. Jensen presents the lives of women in posed and candid moments, together and alone, some in the environment of the synagogue, others beyond it. The photographs create a collective portrait of Jewish women in Maine who are strong, warm and spiritually and geographically tied.

Jensen is the director of photography and video for the Bates College Communications Office. She has worked for Maine Times and the Boston Herald, where her photographs received recognition from the Nation Press Photographers Association, the Boston Press Photographers Association, the Associated Press and the Washington Journalism Review. Her commitment to storytelling has included multimedia projects about Lewiston’s public schools and its Jewish community, as well as three films screened at the Maine Jewish Film Festival and an essay anthology on the L-A immigration experience.

The Maine Jewish Museum is located at 267 Congress St., Portland. Summer hours are from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays through Fridays. The museum is closed on Saturdays.

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