JOCHIM

“Each person has a unique story to tell,” said actor/photographer Keith Jochim. “One that might sound much like the stories of others but is not; it is theirs alone.”

Jochim is telling many of those stories through a powerful exhibit titled “Turning Toward the Lens: Meaningful Encounters” at the Warwick Public Library on Strawberry Field Road through Oct. 27.

The exhibit is open through regular library hours.

Jochim has spent more than 40 years as a professional actor carrying his talents as a storyteller to photography.

“A play lives in the present,” Jochim said. “Photography has always been a way for me to record those fleeting moments of inspiration, those flights of the soul, those memories of remarkable people recreating the world of the past and the present.”

The Warwick resident starred in more than 30 Trinity productions, including Lenny in “Of Mice and Men,” Shelly Levine in “Glengarry Glenn Ross” and Lee in “True West.” He toured the world as Richard Nixon in “Nixon’s Nixon.”

His television roles included “Law and Order,” Spenser For Hire” and a number of soap operas. Movies included the Mayor in “The Witches of Eastwick.”

The Warwick Library exhibit covers the walls with portraits categorized as “My Body As Art,” “Childhood Wonders,” “Men of a Certain Age,” “American Heroes,” ”Shopkeepers Par Excellence” and “There Are Beautiful People Everywhere.”

Every photograph has a story, and I could  sit and study the countenances for hours.