Photographer Speaker Series
Portland Photography Month

Friday, April 20

4:30 – 5:45  Katharine T Jacobs
6:00 – 7:15  Blue Mitchell
7:30 – 8:45  Zeb Andrews

Portland Community College – Cascade Campus
Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building
705 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97217
Auditorium  Room 104

Contact:
Kelli Pennington
Instructor of Photography
Portland Community College – Cascade Campus
Kellipenni@gmail.com

Portland Community College – Cascade Art Department is pleased to announce a Photographer Speaker Series in support of Portland Photography Month.  All students and community members are welcome to attend.  Featuring nine photographers, who photograph a wide range of subjects and utilize various forms of the medium, will speak about their life path, artistic practice, and thoughts on the state of photography. Each artist will lecture for 60 minutes and answer questions.

Friday April 20

4:30pm – Katharine T Jacobs

Katharine T Jacobs is a graduate of Oregon College of Art and Craft. Originally from the rural foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Katharine began her education at California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. There she learned to shoot with a large format camera and discovered Polaroid type 55 film. In 2007 she moved to Portland, purchased her own 4×5 camera and started photographing friends, family and countless strangers. Her focus in street photography and large format shooting would inspire her journey across the United States and the production of her largest body of work to date; American Strangers.

Katharine continues to use portraiture as a main focus in her work. In junction with multiple exposures and mixed media she uses the photograph as a vehicle and a reference point that empowers the viewer to interact with objects and items they may not have. Katharine Jacobs lives and works in Portland, Oregon and is inspired by her family and the nature of the Pacific Northwest.

6:00pm – Blue Mitchell

Blue Mitchell is an independent publisher, curator, educator, and photographer. Based in Portland, Oregon, he has been involved with many facets of the photographic arts. Mitchell received his BFA from Oregon College of Art & Craft where he has also taught studio school classes and workshops. In his personal work, he implements many photographic techniques including toy cameras, pinhole, alternative processes, mixed media, and hand drawing. Most recently Mitchell has been specializing in acrylic lifts–this process and artwork have been published in Photographic Possibilities, 3rd edition by Robert Hirsch and Alternative Photographic Processes:  Crafting Handmade Images by Brady Wilks.

7:30pm – Zeb Andrews

Zeb Andrews is a Portland-based photographer who has lived his entire life in the Pacific Northwest.  The majority of his work week is spent immersed in photography while working at Blue Moon Camera and Machine in North Portland.  Much of his inspiration comes from the photographers and photography he sees circulate through that store on a daily basis, and he in turn loves passing that along.  Zeb was an instructor at Newspace Center for Photography for seven years and frequently gives presentations to local high school and college photography programs on all things photographic.  When he isn’t at work or enthralled in a class lecture he can often be found on some windswept beach or quietly verdant forest, camera in hand.