The Walker Art Center-organized exhibition Paul Shambroom: Hidden Places of Power, on view July 23-October 22, 1995, will feature large-scale color photographs by this Minneapolis-based artist whose documentary works explore the uncanny, rarely seen aspects of various places of power. Shambroom's work is located firmly within the documentary tradition of photography, yet there is an underlying tension in his images between the objectivity of the camera and his highly personal perspective. According to Shambroom, "Photography is a medium rife with contradictions. A facade of objectivity can obscure a lie." Despite his seemingly straight style of photography, he offers us a surprisingly unofficial, behind-the-scenes view of his subjects, which include factory, office, and nuclear weapons sites. Apparent in these photographs is a dissonance between built environments and their inhabitants, between humans and their technology.