COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- A gallery talk by photographer Andrea Baldeck is scheduled for Wednesday, June 20, at 7 p.m., in the Upper Gallery of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College .

The talk is in conjunction with the exhibit, “Presence Passing: Photographs by Andrea Baldeck, an inaugural exhibition of Andrea Baldeck’s black and white fine art photography, which is on view through August 19. Refreshments will be served at the talk.

The inaugural exhibition of this body of work is accompanied by a book published in conjunction with the installation. In Andrea Baldeck’s photographs of spaces, places, and objects evoking other times and lives, we are invited to conjure up those who gave them meaning and to wonder what traces we ourselves will leave behind.

Born in a rural western New York , Baldeck began photographing with a box camera at age eight, and continued that interest during musical study at Vassar College , medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and practice as an internist and anesthesiologist, finally turning fulltime to photography in the early 1990s. Her portraiture, still lifes and urban landscapes, are featured in her books: “The Heart of Haiti” (1996 and 2005); “Talismanic” (1998); and “ Venice a personal View” (1999). Extensive travels in Southeast Asia led to publication of “Touching the Mekong” (2003), with an exhibit of original prints traveling under the aegis of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She also collaborated with her husband, poet William Hollis, on “Dark Encounter in Mid Air” (2004).

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus, known for its diverse collection, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; noon to 4:30 p.m. , Saturday and Sunday; closed Mondays and college holidays. The museum is accessible to the physically disabled. Admission is free. For group tour information, call 610.409.3500. The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums. Exhibitions and programs are funded in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.