The BaxterCannon Gallery is the collaborative space of photographers Laurie Rae Baxter and Charles Cannon. Baxter and Cannon are both street photographers, sharing an abiding preoccupation with the connection between art and life and the ways they can inform each other. Ubiquitous in all aspects of our lives, photographs inform us, and great ones reform us. A photograph’s reach can extend well beyond the recording of events; it can deepen our understanding of the worlds we inhabit, expressing something more complex and elusive than first meets the eye.

For Baxter and Cannon, image making and compassion converge in compelling imagery and award-winning publications. They make art not only for its own sake, and more importantly for them, they make art for the purpose of philanthropy. Over the past decade their combined photographic storytelling has enhanced and critically extended the capacity of non-profits and NGO’s in a number of countries to expand their reach and increase the visibility of their efforts.