Photographer Speaker Series
Portland Photography Month

Friday, April 13
4:30 – 5:45  Avi Dascaloff
6:00 – 7:15  Leslie Hickey
7:30 – 8:45  Ray Bidegain

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 13th
4:30pm  –  Avi Dascaloff

I was Born in a small town in Brazil, was adopted by an America Mother and a Romanian-Jewish Father who were living in Israel at the time. Grew up in Israel and after my military service in the Israeli Navy I moved back to the states at the age of 21. I was “lost” for a few years, didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life. after living in Florida, California, Texas and Oregon I finally came to a stop in Washington. 3 years ago I decided to quit my day job and pursue my dream of becoming a full time photographer. It hasn’t been easy but very well worth it.

6:00pm – Leslie Hickey

Leslie Hickey lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She earned BA degrees in Studio Art and English from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Her photographic work has been exhibited regularly, including a solo show at the Jules Maidoff Gallery at Studio Arts College International in Florence, Italy. Last October, she returned to Italy, travelling to Civita di Bagnoregio for a fellowship through The Civita Institute. In June she will mount another solo show at Edel Extra in Nuremberg, Germany. Her work can be     found  in the recent edition of Big Big Wednesday and at Essentialist, an online magazine. She is a founding member of Small Talk and also SCALENO, an international photographic collective. Leslie is also proprietor of a   letterpress, Hoarfrost Press.

7:30pm – Ray Bidegain

Ray Bidegain was born in Tucson, Arizona and started studying photography in high school. At age 17 he began working on weekends for a large studio that offered wedding photography to the Hispanic community in Southern Arizona. Ray graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in 1981 and returned to Tucson to operate his own studio before moving to Portland, Oregon. After 17 years as a studio portrait photographer, Ray turned to fine art photography, eventually teaching himself the art of platinum printing and, later, wetplate collodion. Fascinated by both the science and the art of photography and printmaking, Ray is an engaging and respected photo instructor throughout the Pacific Northwest.  Ray’s photographs are internationally collected, and his work has been exhibited across the United States, and in France, Germany, and Scotland. He is currently represented by Russ Levin in Monterey.