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Landry Major, Standing Still in a Constant State of Departure
June 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Landry Major, Standing Still in a Constant State of Departure
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 12:00pm to 1pm
Portland Art Museum Photography Council Lunchtime Talk Series
1119 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97205
In the Trustee Room, 4th floor in the Mark building
www.portlandartmuseum.org / 503 226 2811
Standing Still in a Constant State of Departure
Landry Major and Cash Kasper
In her lunchtime talk, Landry Major will discuss the photographic series
made in harmony with her son, Cash.
On Christmas Day of 2023 her beloved son died.
This collaboration came out of the need to honor their relationship. To show
how, even after he left the physical world, they are still connected. The
series title is from a line Cash wrote in a notebook Landry found after his
passing. She believes it was his feeling of always being on the verge of
leaving this life but standing still staying for her.
These images are double and triple exposures comprised of collodion wet
plate, Polachrome slide film, Polaroids, gold and silver leaf on vellum and
film images. Landry and Cash’s images blended into a vision of the new place he inhabits.
Love that defies space and time. Hands that reach out to find each other
between realms. Traveling beyond intense grief into understanding that they
are still together.
Landry Major is a photographic artist who splits her time between Los Angeles, California and Portland, Oregon. Landry has won honors from
Photolucida’s Critical Mass, the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, and Lurzer’s Archive. Her work has been seen in The New York Times, Time Magazine, AAP Magazine, Black and White Magazine (UK), Analog Forever Magazine, and Western Art Collector Magazine. Landry’s work has been exhibited at the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX; SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC; and PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT.