Last Thurs­day, the Medul­la Art Gallery at Fitt Street, Wood­brook, host­ed a book talk and sign­ing with artist and ac­claimed pho­tog­ra­ph­er Wy­att Gallery for his new book, Jew­ish Trea­sures of the Caribbean.

The book, a pho­to­graph­ic es­say by Gallery, high­lights the lit­tle-known his­to­ry of the first Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties in the New World as seen through the old­est re­main­ing syn­a­gogues and Jew­ish ceme­ter­ies in the West­ern Hemi­sphere.

Gallery, the re­cip­i­ent of a Ful­bright Fel­low­ship, re­ceived his BFA from NYU Tisch School of The Arts in 1997. His pho­tographs are in nu­mer­ous pub­lic and pri­vate col­lec­tions such as the Mu­se­um of Fine Arts Hous­ton, the George East­man House, and Com­cast.

His work has been re­viewed in The New York­er and fea­tured in Es­quire, De­par­tures, Cond� Nast Trav­el­er, The New York Times, and Oprah's OWN Net­work, amongst oth­ers. Gallery's past books–Tent Life: Haiti and #SANDY have suc­cess­ful­ly raised over $100,000 to sup­port com­mu­ni­ties af­fect­ed by nat­ur­al dis­as­ters.

Gallery is rep­re­sent­ed by Fo­ley Gallery and Re­dux Pic­tures in New York City.