Our Love Will Change the World

Our Love Will Change The World is a retrospective of Doug Coombe’s 30+ years of documenting multiple genres of Southeast Michigan’s music scene as a journalist and a fan. The show is also a teaser of a retrospective book of Coombe’s Detroit and Ann Arbor music photography currently in the works. The idea of the book and exhibit is to lure you in with the photos of the local stars and, in the process, put some lesser-known yet equally talented musicians on the pedestal with them.

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Doug Coombe is a photojournalist living in Ann Arbor. As a former longtime record store employee he was inspired by his love of music to pick up photography to document the local music scene in 1991. Locally, Doug has photographed for Detroit Metro Times, Issue Media Group, and Maggot Brain. Clients include Rolling Stone, Spin, Pitchfork, Wax Poetics, Mojo, and The Wire. Doug’s work appeared in the show D Troit in NYC and Manchester in 2003 and 2004 and in Detroit After Dark at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 2016. Doug is currently working on a book of his Detroit music photography.

Opening Reception

Friday, November 22

6-8pm | free

Ann Arbor Art Center
117 W. Liberty St., Ann Arbor, MI

Join us for a trip through three decades of music through the work of prolific SE Michigan photographer Doug Coombe.

Free

A2AC Author Series

Thursday, December 5, 2024, 7-8:30pm | free

A2AC Gallery
117 W. Liberty St., Ann Arbor, MI

The 2024 A2AC Author Series finalizes with our December 5th author reading featuring Cal Freeman, Scott Beal, Brittany Rogers, Rebecca Biber, Kelly Hoppenjans, and Monica Rico. This event is followed by a Q&A.

Free

The 2024 A2AC Author Series is proudly funded in part by
Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities.