Love in Reach
On display June 14 – September 28, 2025
The entrance to Love in Reach, a photography exhibition at Ford House running June 14–September 28, 2025. Curated in collaboration with RJ and Cheryl Jones, the exhibit explores the emotional power of human hands and love’s many forms.
Ford House honors the directives Eleanor Ford provided in her will while working to meet the needs of contemporary audiences. In sharing this family estate with our community, we seek to preserve our physical space and the spirit in which it was used. Therefore, Ford House established four values guided by Eleanor and Edsel Ford’s shared legacy: equity, playfulness, philanthropy, and love. It is love that inspires us every day as we preserve and share their legacy and imagine its future within our community.
In collaboration with Birmingham-based photographers RJ and Cheryl Jones (www.rjandcheryl.com), Ford House proudly presents Love in Reach, a photography exhibition featuring artists whose work explores the intimate connection between a person’s hands and love. This exhibition celebrates the ways in which hands serve as vessels for expressing affection, warmth, joy, and myriad other powerful emotions and experiences. Whether through a gentle touch, the act of creating something meaningful, or the nuanced gestures of anticipating, holding, comforting, communicating, healing, playing, or simply savoring a beautiful moment, the human hand embodies the power of love made visible and real.
Photographers featured in Love in Reach were chosen by the guest curators to contribute work that aligns with the exhibition’s theme and vision. The group includes both professional and amateur photographers living and working throughout Metro Detroit.
This September, Mr. and Mrs. Jones will return to Ford House for a three-day artist residency, culminating in a half-day workshop designed to offer emerging photographers a guided opportunity to capture the estate grounds through their own lenses. At the conclusion of the residency, Mr. Jones will present a portfolio of estate images and donate one selected photograph for display in South Cottage.
