British photographer Richard Learoyd’s portrait series “Presences,” at the Fraenkel Galley though June 25, presents a collection of unsettling, slightly larger-than-life images that invite closeness while imposing a measured distance. The photographs were made using a camera-obscura studio that Learoyd constructed. It consists of two spaces — one for the model facing a bank of lights and the other for photographic paper, with a lens connecting the rooms. Read More