Photoshopping: New Detroit lens group kicks off new gallery scene with opening and sale

Oct. 2-3 7 p.m. http://bit.ly/4mP7kO This first exhibition and sale of by a group called the Detroit League of Photographers (we like the name, too) looks too good to pass up. Part of the Art Detroit Now, it includes two evenings of images, music (by DJ Liz Larin) and cocktails in an intimate studio space setting inside the Russell Industrial Center. DLOP is a mix of 13 professional and amateur photographers that formed a group to share ideas and improve and grow as photographers. The studio was founded by Ted Fines, Bobby Alcott and Brett Lawrence.

The images on display and for sale are by Keith Burgess, Bethany Helzer, Paul Hitzelberger, Vanessa Miller, Eric Peoples, Ross Sandelius, Ryan Southen, Christian Spencer (photo of Hotel Yorba and masthead featuring Belle Isle's MacArthur Bridge are his), Spike, Rob Terwilliger, Fines, Alcott and Lawrence.

Friday and Saturday, October 2-3, 7 p.m. The DLOP studio on the west end of the second floor of Russell Industrial Center's Building 2, 1600 Clay Avenue, Detroit.