Luke Olsen Photography

Thibault Roland 3-day Palouse workshop
2021-06-26 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | OR
Thibault Roland, 3-day Palouse workshop
June 26-28 2021
http://www.thibaultroland.com
$1295
$400 non-refundable at the time of registration
Thibault Roland is a Sony Artisan of Imagery and fine art photographer who specializes in seascapes, landscapes and architecture. He is a master of long exposure, infrared, tilt/shift and black and white photography.
Join him in the Palouse for a 3-day workshop June 26-28 to capture gorgeous rolling hills, the vibrant greens and yellows of wheat and canola fields, and elegant wind turbines. Last but not least, he will bring you to secret locations where you’ll get to shoot spooky abandoned houses!
If you want to learn long exposure, sharpen your photographic and visualization skills, this photo adventure will be perfect for you! Cherry on the cake, Thibault will also share some of his best editing tricks during the classroom session planned on Sunday (local COVID-19 guidelines permitting) and provide feedback to improve your images.
Group size: 5
Price:
$1295
$400 non-refundable at the time of registration
To register for one of the two the last spots left, email: contact@thibaultroland.com

5-day Oregon Coast Photography Tour w/ Steve Anchell
2021-06-07 08:00 - 17:00 | OR
5-day Oregon Coast Photography Tour
Instructor/Organizer: Steve Anchell
June 7 to 11, 2021
Astoria to Florence
503.884.3882
Oregon Coast Photography Workshop | Anchell Photography Workshops (anchellworkshops.com)
$950 per person
2020 was a year for laying low. Now is the time to dust off your camera and tripod, hit the road, and get back to nature.
Travel with me along the Oregon Coast from Astoria to Florence and photograph what may be the most spectacular coastline in the U.S. I know all the coast roads, nooks and crannies, including the highest point on the Oregon coast. From Haystack Rock to Yaquina lighthouse. We’ll also photograph at the Sea Lion Caves, a marine garden, Thor’s Well, the Devil’s Churn, Cape Kiwanda, and Cape Perpetua. In between chasing the light, we’ll stop for a picnic at Fogarty Creek. And if flora is your passion you won’t want to miss the Rhododendron Capital or the carnivorous Cobra Orchids.
This photographic odyssey will prove to be both inspirational and fun. Let’s go smell the salt air together.
Limited to 9 participants, including companions. There are 3 spaces remaining.
All participants must show proof of vaccination.
For more information go to Oregon Coast Photography Workshop

Christopher Rauschenberg at Nine Gallery
2021-06-03 12:00 - 17:00 | Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Christopher Rauschenberg
June 3rd – June 26th, 2021
Nine Gallery is located within Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon
Open Wednesday – Saturday from noon to 5 pm
503-225-0210
Nine Gallery will present an exhibition of assembled photographs by Christopher Rauschenberg
“I spent the month of January, 2020, traveling around India making photographs, including the photographs that were combined together to make the assembled panoramas in this exhibition.”
– Christopher Rauschenberg
www.ChristopherRauschenberg.com

Johnnie Chatman at Blue Sky Gallery
2021-05-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Johnnie Chatman, i forgot where we were…
2020 En Foco Fellowship Exhibition
April 1–May 29, 2021
Artist talk with Johnnie Chatman
Wednesday, May 19, 5:00 PM PDT on Zoom
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
http://www.blueskygallery.org/
(By appointment)
Masks Required
Please note that these days and hours may change as we continue to respond to the COVID-19 situation in Multnomah County. Our exhibitions will continue to be on display on the TV monitors in our front windows and available on our website.
In this chapter of his self-portrait series, Johnnie Chatman inserts himself into the topography of the American West, drawing attention to the exclusionary narratives, myths, and histories that have long been associated with these iconic landscapes. Through these visual interventions, Chatman shifts the focus to black histories and experiences. Chatman observes, “Like the black body, the West is a complex, unstable signifier given meaning by those who have lived within it, passed through it, conquered it, settled, farmed, militarized, urbanized, and dreamed it…the project explores the ambiguity and multiplicity of blackness oscillating between a space of romance and critique, objective research, and personal narrative.”
Johnnie Chatman is a Californian lens-based artist currently residing in New York. He holds an MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Chatman’s work has been featured in exhibitions across the United States, including at Fraenkel Gallery, HereArts, SF Camerawork, Figge Art Museum, and Sioux Art Center. His work can be found in many private and public collections including at the Figge Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work has been featured in publications including Dear Dave, Nueva Lutz, and Zoetrope All-Story. He is also the founder and curator of Terms & Conditions, an experimental film screening series. In 2020, Chatman was awarded an En Foco Photography Fellowship.
Please visit enfoco.org to learn more about the En Foco Fellowship program.

David N Jones: In Memoriam at Emerald Arts Center
2021-05-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
David N Jones: In Memoriam
Featured Artist, PhotoZone Gallery
May 5 to May 28, 2021
Reception: May 14 from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Emerald Arts Center
500 Main Street
Springfield, Oregon
541-726-8595
11:00 to 4:00 Wednesday to Saturday
photozonegalleryoregon@gmail.com
emeraldartscenter.org
Open to the public
David N. Jones knew the natural joy of being alive. Most of those who knew him would agree that he made life and love a priority in all that he did. Growing up with family in California’s wine country, he formed an insatiable curiosity about the world around him. This loving respect for living things and his gentle nature fostered a passion for photography. His images capture not only the nuance of light and composition but express something more internal, more personal. They reveal a compassionate heart.
David received his BA in history from UC Davis and a masters of Arts Degree at Saint Mary’s College. Together, they opened up a course for the rest of his life. He traveled and taught internationally, while always exploring his artistic vision and touching the hearts of many across the globe.
David joined his sister in Eugene twenty years ago in order to care for their parents. He quickly established himself in the local fine-art photographic community. David loved hiking and traveling the vast wonders of the Pacific Northwest. He captured precious singular moments on film and, later, in digital media. As his health declined David began to create images in his studio environment. Some of his most impressive work is seen in the use of mirrors within paper constructions and soft high-key, pastel lighting. Motivated by his love of the natural world, David also used this lighting to great effect making beautiful portraits of butterflies and flowers. His computer skill and grasp of Photoshop were the final touch in the creation of his characteristically wistful, sometimes dramatic, always beautiful images.
David happily shared these experiences to fellow photographers through regular demonstrations and training sessions, including layers, editing techniques, and the dramatic enhancing of architectural photography.
This memorial exhibit is a very limited collection of photographs that hopefully will demonstrate the diversity of his work as well as the compassionate place from which these images came. He was, and still is, a compelling influence in the community of fine art photography, a warm and loving muse for us all, and an inspiration in the pursuit of beauty – both in the world around us in each of our hearts.
https://www.davidnjonesphotography.com/

Photography at Oregon On-Line Photography Auction
2021-05-06 08:00 - 17:00 | OR
Photography at Oregon On-Line Photography Auction
Eugene-based Photography at Oregon (PAO) is having their 43rd annual photography auction of original photographs.
Now through May 6, 2021
https://www.accelevents.com/e/PAO2021
Photographs by Shelby Lee Adams, Wynn Bullock, Christopher Burkett, Carl Chiarenza, Linda Connor, Stewart Harvey, Michael Kenna, Don Kirby, Stu Levy, Ryuijie, George Tice and many other photographers are being offered.
PAO has supported the Eugene area’s photography teaching programs for more than 50 years.
Auction proceeds support PAO’s public lectures, exhibitions, workshops, visiting artists and community fine-art photography nights.
Auction bids can be made through May 6, 2021. Please bid on a photograph and help support photography in our community!

Rich Bergeman at White Lotus Gallery
2021-04-30 10:00 - 16:00 | White Lotus Gallery, 767 Willamette St, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Rich Bergeman, The Vanishing West
April 30 – June 12, 2021
White Lotus Gallery
767 Willamette St., Eugene, OR 97401
541-375-3276
wlotus.com
lin@wlotus.com
Open Tuesday through Saturday 10am – 4pm
Masks and social distancing required
Private appointments on request
During the Great Western Migration, as the Native American population in eastern Oregon and Washington gradually gave way to disease, conflict and broken treaties, they were replaced by pioneers in search of gold, homesteads and open range. During the late 19th century and the early years of the next, settlers built cabins, proved up homesteads and organized small communities all across this high, wide and dry country. Over time many gave up on the harsh landscape, leaving the region dotted with melancholic relics of their hopes and dreams–schoolhouses crumbling from neglect, farmhouses falling back to earth, ghost towns gradually giving up their ghosts.
With a combination of platinum/palladium prints and pigment ink prints spanning the past three decades, this exhibition will illustrate Corvallis photographer Rich Bergeman’s photographic pursuit of the vanishing traces of early settlement east of the Cascades. A native of Ohio and an Oregonian since 1976, Rich has been a journalist, educator and curator during his career, and an exhibiting fine art photographer for over 30 years. He enjoys expressing himself through photography in a variety of forms, but primarily by pointing his camera backward, to the past.

Jon Gottshall at Gallery 114
2021-04-03 12:00 - 18:00 | Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Jon Gottshall, Floodplain
April 1-May 1, 2021
1100 NW Glisan
Portland, Oregon 97209
503-243-3356
HOURS: Currently Saturdays 12-6, Friday & Sunday 12-3.
Appointments by request: jon@jongottshall.com
Masks and social distancing are required
In April Gallery 114 presents “Floodplain,” archival inkjet photography by Jon Gottshall that focuses on the current, perhaps urgent, state of the natural and built environments of the floodplains of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. The exhibit opens virtually on First Thursday, April 1, and closes Saturday, May 1. This exhibit represents a questioning of how we choose to build on and use environmentally sensitive land; it represents a search to find space between human utility and ecosystem health that can allow for the function of both in a sustainable manner. “We need a new paradigm for the future,” says Gottshall. “The effects of the past 100 years of development are everywhere to be seen, and the urbanized waterways of this nation will never be ‘wild’ again.” In these affecting and enlightening photographs of the two converging floodplains, Gottshall sketches a history of development–the engineering of our major waterways and industrial lands–yet at the same time he notes that he sees signs of hope for the ecosystems, “where aquatic life, damaged though it is in the Columbia Slough and the Willamette, persists and somehow endures.”
Jon Gottshall is a teacher and photographer who for more than 20 years has been photographing landscapes along the Willamette River through Portland. He has photographed the Portland Harbor as what he calls a “contested landscape,” an ecosystem and industrial corridor. In another photographic series, he documented the transition from the old Sellwood Bridge to the new one, the demolition and construction going on side by side. The project symbolized for Gottshall the transition of Portland itself from a small to a modern city. His interest is in visually investigating how Portland’s development has affected the ecological health of the river, and how recent restoration efforts must compete with current industrial uses.
Gottshall has been awarded a RACC grant and has work in private and public collections. He has been with Gallery 114 since 2007.
The floodplains along the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers were, in their pre-development state, a braided maze of tidal and seasonal streams, wetlands and marshes. As an intermediate zone between the riverbanks and the drier uplands, the floodplains supported one of the regions most diverse and complex ecosystems, home to a wide variety of aquatic and upland species.
The floodplain that now exists along the Willamette and Columbia Rivers is quite different from its pre-settlement condition. As the wetlands were drained, the drier land became ideal for economic development—railroads, warehouses and manufacturing became the main utility of the floodplains, kept behind a protective barrier of levees.
Not all of the waterways were eliminated, of course. The Willamette has been channeled, what was once a real Swan Island is now a peninsula, the upriver eastern channel filled and now spider-webbed with railroad tracks. The Columbia Slough, along with several lakes and ponds, are the surviving remnants of what once covered the Columbia’s southern shore near the outlet of the Willamette.
We like to build where it is easiest. From an economic perspective, a low floodplain makes an attractive site to develop, if you can ward off annual floods. Dams and levees were built along the Columbia to keep the high water back, and the once porous landscape is now covered with hardscape and impervious surfaces. The Slough has been relegated to a drainage, and has filled with industrial sediments for over a century.
Yet aquatic life, damaged though it is in the Slough and the Willamette, persists and somehow endures. Herons, osprey and otter still make it their home, albeit living on fish that the Oregon DEQ warns humans against consuming. For some people, it is a place of recreation and connection. Though there is a great deal of work to be done, initial steps are now underway to stabilize and perhaps restore both waterways to a more sustainable ecosystem.
The effects of the past 100 years of development are everywhere to be seen, and the urbanized waterways of this nation will never be “wild” again. Our engineering of major waterways is not likely to stop. This exhibit represents a questioning of how we choose to build on and use environmentally sensitive land, a search to find space between human utility and ecosystem health, which can allow for the function of both in a sustainable manner. We need a new paradigm for the future.

Holly Wilmeth at Pushdot Studio Gallery
2021-04-02 08:30 - 17:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Holly Wilmeth, Sacred Nature
April 2nd- May 28th, 2021
Pushdot Studio
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
(in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street)
Portland, OR 97202
503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
Sacred Nature is a visual and written journey about plants, rooted in the belief that healing ourselves and our planet happens through reclaiming an intuitive connection to ourselves, to the natural world, and to our own “inner wild”.
Here is an invitation to awaken to a place of sacred sanctuary. The harmony of the natural world is available to us in our own backyard through the powerful healing energy of traditional plant wisdom. Enter into this world of natural magic, embrace the beauty that surrounds you, and experience these incredible plants through new eyes.
www.hollywilmeth.com

Lora Webb Nichols at Blue Sky Gallery
2021-04-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Lora Webb Nichols: Photographs Made, Photographs Collected
Curated by Nicole Jean Hill of the Lora Webb Nichols Archive
April 1–May 1, 2021
Curator’s talk with Nicole Jean Hill
Thursday, April 1, 6:00 PM PDT on Zoom
Zoom Curatorial Talk with Nicole Jean Hill Tickets, Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
http://www.blueskygallery.org/
(By appointment)
Masks Required
Please note that these days and hours may change as we continue to respond to the COVID-19 situation in Multnomah County. Our exhibitions will continue to be on display on the TV monitors in our front windows and available on our website.
Photographs Made, Photographs Collected is a selection of images curated by Nicole Jean Hill from the photography archive of Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962). As a studio photographer and professional photo refinisher in the mining town of Encampment, Wyoming, Nichols created and collected approximately 24,000 negatives over the course of her lifetime. This selection of images chronicles the domestic, social, and economic aspects of the sparsely populated frontier of south-central Wyoming during the early 1900s into the 1930s. Given the period of time the collection spans, the isolation of the Encampment community, and Nichols’ gender, this collection of images is unparalleled in its historical significance and visual storytelling.
Lora Webb Nichols received her first camera in 1899 at the age of sixteen, coinciding with the rise of Wyoming’s copper mining boom. The earliest photographs are of her immediate family, self-portraits, and landscape images of the cultivation of the region surrounding the town of Encampment. In addition to the personal imagery, the young Nichols photographed miners, industrial infrastructure, and a small town’s adjustment to a sudden, but ultimately fleeting, population increase. As early as 1906, Nichols was working for hire as a photographer for industrial documentation and family portraits, developing and printing from a darkroom she fashioned in the home she shared with her husband and their children. After the collapse of the copper industry, Nichols remained in Encampment and established the Rocky Mountain Studio, a photography and photofinishing service, to help support her family. Her commercial studio was a focal point of the town throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
With an anthropological approach to image making, Nicole Jean Hill is an artist using photography and video to explore familiar spaces and activities within the American cultural and natural landscape. She was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio and received a BFA in photography from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Australia, including Gallery 44 in Toronto, the Australia Centre for Photography in Sydney, and Blue Sky Gallery. Her work has been featured in the Magenta Foundation publication Flash Forward: Emerging Photography from the U.S., U.K., and Canada, the Humble Art Foundation’s The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Photography, and National Public Radio. Hill has been an artist-in-residence at several arts organizations and universities, including the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and the Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon. She currently resides in Humboldt County, California and is a Professor of Art at Humboldt State University.

Donald Myers at PhotoZone Gallery
2021-03-05 17:00 - 20:30 | PhotoZone Gallery, 22 West 7th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Donald Myers, The Unseen World of Infrared Photography
March 4 to March 26, 2021
Reception: March 5 from 5:00 to 8:30
Masks Required
PhotoZone Gallery
22 West 7th Ave. Eugene, Oregon
541-683-0759
12:00 to 6:00 Tuesday through Sunday
https://www.photozonegallery.com/
Free and open to the public

The Unseen World of Infrared Photography
Infrared, or “IR” photography, offers photographers of all abilities and budgets the opportunity to explore a new world – the world of the unseen. Infrared (IR) photography follows the basic photographic concept of “capturing light,” except it captures the ever-present infrared light around us that is virtually impossible to see with the naked eye. In scientific terms, visible light that reflects all the colors that we can see is measured between wavelengths of 400-700 nanometers (nm), while “near IR” or infrared is measured between 700-1,000 nm.
However, infrared light can be felt as heat. And since heat can be transferred, elements like colors, textures, the sky, trees, and even human subjects will reflect and radiate infrared light differently as opposed to visible light. Green trees, plants, and clouds that reflect the most infrared light will look whiter while blue skies that don’t reflect IR will translate into black areas. Infrared shooters typically use filters with varying color strengths or photo editing programs to create even more unique (albeit slightly eerie) photographic effects.
This type of photography dates back to the age of film photography. In fact, it became so popular that Jimi Hendrix, Donovan, and Frank Zappa’s album covers in the ‘60s were inspired by the psychedelic and artistic results of IR photography. However, shooting infrared back then was a lot more complicated (and expensive) compared to today, mainly due to film’s unpredictability and the expense that came with specialized film rolls.
Through our journey in life there is struggle and reward. I try to make sense of it all by taking photos. I’m fascinated by the people and places I encounter along my journey and try to document it in interesting ways.
I began my photo journey in Vietnam over fifty years ago and have been documenting my journey ever since. I studied photojournalism at Arizona State University and worked for various newspapers and magazines.
I recently became interested in Infrared Photograph in an effort to try something different and I was fascinated by the work of my colleagues who were exploring the world of IR. It brings an entirely new element to my work that expands my view of an already amazing world.

Photolucida’s Online Auction Adventure
2021-03-05 08:00 - 17:00 | OR
In lieu of Photolucida’s biennial Portfolio Reviews Event this spring, we are excited to present an online auction event that benefits both Photolucida and the photographers in the bidding sections. This is not your ordinary auction! It is also a curated celebration of some of the remarkable work that has passed through our programming the past few years, including some gorgeous book and print pairings. We are also pleased to offer up some rare signed/first edition books from an important private collection, and the opportunity to bid on one-on-one consultations with some of the most integral Reviewers in the photography world. Plus – some additional surprises that defy categorization!
Photographic work from: Renate Aller, Debe Arlook, Rachael Banks, Patricia A. Bender, Cody Bratt, Panos Charalampidis + Mary Chairetaki, Pamela Chipman, Goseong Choi, Natalie Christensen, Christopher Colville, Linda Connor, Norma Córdova, Jason DeMarte, Rory Doyle, Carol Erb, Amy Friend, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Dylan Hausthor, Bootsy Holler, Adriene Hughes, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Rose Jerome, Gregory Jungdanian, Jordanna Kalman, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Galina Kurlat, Andy Mattern, Molly McCall, Ruairidh McGlynn, Marisol Mendez, Ingvild Melby, Jeff Moorfoot, Emeke Obanor, Luis Gonzales Palma, Stephen Petegorsky, Christopher Rauschenberg, Astrid Reischwitz, Michelle Rogers-Pritzl, Meg Roussos, Wendi Schneider, Heather Evans Smith, Catie Soldan, Alec Soth, Laura Stevens, Daisuke Takakura, JP Terlizzi, Amanda Tinker, Ada Trillo, Alex Turner, and Karey Walter
Print and monograph pairings: Hannah Altman, Cody Bratt, Keith Carter, Yukari Chikura, Andrew Feiler, Fran Forman, Janet Holmes, Cable Hoover, Jamie Johnson, Daniel Kariko, Vivian Keulards, One Twelve Publishing/Diffusion, Marcy Palmer, Joni Sternbach, and JP Terlizzi
Reviewers (one-on-one consultation sessions): Andy Adams, Alexa Becker, Mary Bisbee-Beek, Alyssa Coppelman, Jennifer DeCarlo, Jon Feinstein, Michael Foley, Karen Haas, Ann M. Jastrab, Debra Klomp-Ching, Paul Kopeikin, Geoffrey Koslov, Douglas McCulloh, Melanie McWhorter, Dina Mitrani, Alison Nordström, Stacy J. Platt, Madeline Yale Preston, Christopher Rauschenberg, Molly Roberts, Maarten Schilt, J. Sybylla Smith, Aline Smithson, Mary Virginia Swanson, Paula Tognarelli, Laura Valenti, Lisa Volpe, and Lisa Woodward + Mia Dalglish
Rare book collection: First edition and/or signed monographs by Robert Adams, Peter Beard, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, John Gossage, W. Eugene Smith, Terri Weifenbach, and Masao Yamamoto
Thank you for checking it out, make a bid, spread the word!

William Alsup at Blackbird Wine Shop
2021-03-04 08:00 - 17:00 | Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont St, Portland, OR, 97213, United States
William Alsup, Oregon, Wine, and Tango
– a Collection of Seventeen Black and White Prints
March 1 – April 11
[no reception]
Blackbird Wine Shop
4323 NE Fremont St, Portland
(503) 282-1887
Tues-Sat: 12:00–7:00 p.m.; Sunday 2:00–7:00 p.m.
blackbirdwine@gmail.com
blackbirdwine.com
Please wear a mask
This exhibit includes seventeen black and white images grouped in three sections:
1) ”Local Color,” 2) Vineyards & Wine,” and 3) “Argentina and Tango.”
The displayed images are a combination of silver-gelatin and digital archive prints
Bill Alsup is an avid cyclist and Argentine tango dancer who practices photography daily, and feels naked without a baseball cap and camera.
Instagram and Flickr: “tangobiker”

Dan Nelken at Emerald Arts Center
2021-02-14 13:00 - 14:00 | OR
Dan Nelken, HeadStrong: The Women of Rural Uganda
February 3d to February 27th
Reception: February 12 from 5 to 7 pm
Artist Talk: February 14th 1:00pm
(ZOOM https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82419478400)
Emerald Arts Center
500 Main Street Springfield, Oregon
541-726-8595
11am to 4 pm Wednesday thru Saturday; Second Fridays 5 to 7 pm
https://www.emeraldartcenter.org/
Open to the public
MASK ARE REQUIRED
HeadStrong: The Women of Rural Uganda
Dan Nelken photographer
Beatrice Lamwaka story translator
HeadStrong is an ongoing photographic and storytelling project focusing on working women in rural Uganda. These women are at a critical crossroads in their agrarian society. Emerging from a history of war and economic uncertainty, women are the tipping point of a future with more possibilities for their gender and offspring. As their accompanying stories reveal, many are hampered by lack of education and opportunities for themselves and their children. Yet, most have hope.
During four trips to Uganda as a volunteer, I interacted with many women in rural areas. Impressed by the women’s work ethic, poise, sense of humor, and resilience, I initially embarked on this project for esthetic reasons: a desire to showcase their personas in Uganda’s natural light. As this project progressed, I realized that a broader community should hear their stories.
Because Uganda has one of the world’s fastest-growing and youngest populations (15.9 years median age), women’s roles are critical to ensuring economic, intellectual, and societal success in the future. Childrearing and domestic tasks are almost entirely the responsibility of women; in rural communities, women are often the family’s primary wage earners. These facts directly impact the lives of women.
As a life-long professional portrait photographer, I chose to combine the power of portraiture with the women’s own stories to portray their individuality and endurance. Aware of my outsider status and insufficient knowledge of Ugandan society, I partnered with Beatrice Lamwaka, an award-winning Ugandan author, who brings an essential East African female viewpoint to this project. Lamwaka interviewed the women and then wrote a biographical narrative, which includes aspirations, to accompany her portrait. These texts are an integral part of HeadStrong.
Each woman expressed herself through personal choices of work clothing and accessories. Their direct gaze powerfully conveys their sense of self and ownership in presenting themselves to the viewer. I chose mosquito netting to physically separate the women from their chaotic surroundings while alluding to the region’s paucity of medical care.
The titles include documentary details that provide context for the portraits.
Dan Nelken was born in Tel Aviv and immigrated to the United States with his family, becoming a citizen and residing in Chicago. He departed for New York and received his undergraduate degree from Pratt Institute.
By the time he was 11-years-old, Nelken had lived in four countries with three different languages. As a result, he developed an innate understanding of being “the other,” struggling to adapt to new circumstances. As a documentary photographer, he is known for his portrait work of those outside society’s mainstream. His portraits aspire to accentuate individuality while acknowledging the importance of group behaviors, habits, and rituals. His ongoing project, HeadStrong: The Women of Rural Uganda, exemplifies his commitment to this theme. The portraits focus on the contribution of women in a predominately patriarchal society.
Nelken has received many awards and recognition for his HeadStrong project and earlier for Till The Cows Come Home: County Fair Portraits. His work has been published and exhibited widely and is in both public and private collections.
Dan owned and operated a photographic studio where he produced advertising and promotional images for design firms, ad agencies, publishers, and corporations. This work helped support his multi-year personal projects.

The Photographic Nude 2021 at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2021-02-13 11:00 - 16:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
The Photographic Nude 2021
LightBox Photographic Gallery
February 13 – March 10, 2021
Opening Day: Saturday, February 13th, open 11-4 pm
Mask Is Required
LightBox Photographic Gallery
1045 Marine Dr.
Astoria, OR 97103
(503) 468-0238
lightbox-photographic.com

“The Photographic Nude 2021”
LightBox Photographic Gallery opens “The Photographic Nude 2021” on Saturday, February 13th. The gallery will be open from 11-4 p.m. with limited occupancy and social distancing. This is the 10th year of the annual international juried exhibit, a collection of photographic prints exploring the artistic and creative view of the body and its form, dedicated to the creative spirit of photographer Ruth Bernhard.
LightBox established “The Photographic Nude“ series to gain an understanding of the nude historically in the photographic medium. The show features various works, from traditional classical studies to alternative and provocative styles, of the fine art nude from around the world. The tenth anniversary of the Photographic Nude Exhibit was juried by Michael and Chelsea Granger, Directors of the gallery, with 50 images selected for the exhibit from 38 photographers.
Congratulations to all the artists exhibiting in The Photographic Nude 2021
Dave Aimone, Allan Barnes, Leland Buck, Ronald Butler, Joseph Diess, Mark Dierker, Michael Duncan,
Kathryn Elsesser, László Gálos, Paul B. Goode, Dave Hanson, Jim Hamstra, Stephanie Hogan,
Jerrie Hurd, Kelly James, Rogier Janssen, Michael Kelly-Dewitt, Laura Kurtenbach, Dave Levingston,
Malcolm Lobban, Jeffrey Mathison, E.E. McCollum, Donald MacDonald, Marc McVey,
Ralph Mercer, Charlie Noble, Angel O’Brien, Lance Pressl, Michael Puff, Kathy Radie, Gregory Roth,
Thomas Robinson, Gary Samson, Gary Schubert, Paul Sharatt, Scott Stillman, Ryan Sumner, DanTree

Edward Pabor at PhotoZone Gallery
2021-02-05 17:00 - 20:00 | PhotoZone Gallery, 22 West 7th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Edward Pabor, Patagonia and Antarctica
PhotoZone Gallery, Featured Artist
February 4th to March 2nd
Reception: February 5th from 5:00pm to 8:00pm
PhotoZone Gallery
22 West 7th Ave.
Eugene, Oregon
541-683-0759
12:00 to 6:00 pm Tuesday through Sunday
https://www.photozonegallery.com/
Open to the public
MASKS ARE REQUIRED
I have been an adventurer all my life. Even as a young child I would want to walk in the woods, or down a winding road. For the last 50 years I have done that with a camera. I have always been intrigued with photography. I used to climb trees with my Kodak instamatic and take pictures of robins’ nests. And then came my Polaroid Swinger camera. But the real magic happened when I first saw the alchemy in the dark room; when the image started to appear in the Dektol pan. The simplicity of a black and white print is still sublime. I am one of the luckiest men the world. I am not rich with money, but I am rich with love, friends and worldly adventures. These photos of Patagonia and Antarctica were taken on one of the great adventures of my life. Antarctica is the 7th continent I have been too, and it was a dream come true for me. How many guys can say they drank with Russians at a Russian research station in Antarctica?
My philosophy on photography is simple. You have to work to get good photos. They don’t just come to you. You have to plan on walking in the dark to be some place at dawn. You have to wait for snow and walk by yourself through the cold; your foot prints being the only footprints out there. After that, it is all about composition and exposure. Both come with time. This Patagonia-Antarctica show is the best black and white show I have done. And just as when photography was first invented, the real art form of photography is the black and white print. This show represents one month of work in December of 2019. As Einstein said “work is what gives substance to life”. I am a lucky man.

Pushdot employee group show at Pushdot Studio
2021-02-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Pushdot employee group show at Pushdot Studio
February 5th – March 26th, 2021
Pushdot Studio
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
(in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street)
Portland, OR 97202
503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
We require an appointment and mask when visiting at this time
Pushdot Employees, Julio Cantu, Drew Cornwall, and Lincoln Miller present individual works. Julio Cantu presents recent illustrations while Drew Cornwall and Lincoln Miller present photographic works.

Our Diversity is Our Strength showing at Blue Sky Gallery
2021-01-30 09:00 - 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Our Diversity is Our Strength
Through February 27
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
http://www.blueskygallery.org/
(By appointment)
Masks Required
We are really excited to be able to share with everyone the final selected images for our 3rd annual curated photography exhibit, Our Diversity is Our Strength! Never has it felt more important to share photographs and stories of people who have come to this country for the opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their families and who have given so much to our country and communities.
With the increasing hate speech we are experiencing, often against immigrants, and which dehumanizes entire groups of people, we are grateful to get to share these stories as an antidote. When we allow ourselves to stop and really see each other, to be willing to hear someone’s story, to see our common humanity, we understand we are not so different. It opens the door to mutual understanding and empathy.
We must find a way to first, always see the humanity in each other. It is the only way we will start to heal the deep wounds and divisions in this country.
All of the 37 selected prints can be seen now at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Some images will be up on the community wall through February 27th, and all of the images will be available in the gallery’s community viewing drawings through December 2021. Blue Sky Gallery visits are by appointment only right now, please check here for availability, calendly.com/blueskyappointments/visit. We will also be sharing all of the images on our IG account, Our Diversity is Our Strength.
For more information about Our Diversity is Our Strength:
https://www.blueskygallery.org/news/2021/1/11/diversity-is-our-strength
and
Our Diversity is Our Strength – gallery exhibit and virtual slideshow telling immigrant stories from our communities

Rich Bergeman, More Than Meets the Eye at Chessman Gallery
2021-01-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Lincoln City Cultural Center, 540 NE Highway 101, Lincoln City, OR, 97367, United States
Rich Bergeman, More Than Meets the Eye
January 8 to February 21, 2021
Chessman Gallery
Lincoln City Cultural Center
540 NE Hwy 101
Lincoln City, Oregon
541-994-9994
www.lincolncityculturalcenter.org
Open Thursday through Sunday 10am to 4pm
Mask Required
Click here for the virtual tour
Corvallis photographer Rich Bergeman will be exhibiting 30 black-and-white infrared seascapes at the LCCC Chessman Gallery through Feb. 21 in Lincoln City.
The images were made over the past four years at more than a dozen locations along the Northwest Coast, from Long Beach, Wash., to Pistol River, Ore. Many were made during the extreme low tides of the spring and early summer, when the exposed beaches, headlands and rocky shelves reveal plants and sea life that normally lie hidden beneath the waves. Although these landscapes are teeming with life, from mussels and barnacles to seaweeds and sea grasses, they are relatively colorless, dominated by dull browns and dark greens. Using infrared digital cameras, Bergeman reverses the tones, transforming the landscapes into hauntingly beautiful, often other-worldly, scenes.
A retired instructor from Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Bergeman has been exhibiting his photography throughout the Northwest since the late 1980s. Originally a large-format black-and-white photographer and platinum printer, he has been working exclusively with infrared for the past five years. One of his recent IR photographs of Mt. McLoughlin, part of his Rogue River Wars project, was accepted into the permanent collection at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem earlier this month.

Jasmine Swisher "Falling Sky" virtual opening
2021-01-13 08:00 - 17:00 | OR
Jasmine Swisher, Falling Sky
January 2021
Virtual Opening
This series of photographs were taken at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. With the uncertainty of the world, collectively, the flood of emotions felt globally ranged from helplessness to thankfulness. These images were my way of sorting out these emotions and trying to focus on the positive aspects of what felt like our world falling apart. Horses have a connection to the wilderness that they are able to share with us. Spending time putting Falling Sky together was a way for me to put aside my worries and focus on trying to illustrate the indescribable connection that horses have with nature that touches our hearts.
jasmineswisher.jimdo.com

Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Place, Migration, and Immigration at Blue Sky Gallery (virtual)
2021-01-06 15:00 - 17:00 | OR
Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Place, Migration, Immigration
curated by Aaron Turner, featuring photography by
Widline Cadet, Jasmine Clarke, and Nadiya I. Nacorda
December 3, 2020–January 30, 2021*
Women of the African Diaspora Panel Discussion
Wednesday, January 6, 3:00 PM PST via Zoom (RSVP link)
Free and open to the public.
*To do our part to help our community in fighting the growing COVID-19 impact, we will close Blue Sky to the public on November 29. Our December/January shows will go up as planned, and while we will remain closed until the freeze in Multnomah County is lifted, we ensure there will be many ways for you to enjoy the new exhibitions virtually. Stay tuned and please, please stay safe!
Blue Sky is pleased to present Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Place, Migration, and Immigration, an exhibition curated by Aaron Turner and featuring photographic work by Widline Cadet, Jasmine Clarke, and Nadiya I. Nacorda. Through photography, these three artists reflect upon their experiences navigating contemporary life in the United States and beyond as women of the African Diaspora, while also contributing to the larger conversation surrounding inclusion and exclusion within the visual narrative of art history.
About the artists and curator:
Widline Cadet is a Haitian-born artist. Her practice draws from personal history and examines race, memory, erasure, migration, immigration, and Haitian cultural identity from within the United States. She uses photography, video, and installations to construct a visual language that explores notions of visibility and hyper-visibility, black feminine interiority, and selfhood. Cadet is a recipient of a 2013 Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, a 2018 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture artist-in-residence, a 2019 Lighthouse Works fellow, a 2019 Syracuse University VPA Turner artist-in-residence, a 2020 Lit List finalist, the 2020 Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Snider Prize winner, and a recipient of a 2020 NYFA / JGS Fellowship in photography. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, TIME, and Wallpaper*, among others. Cadet earned a BA in studio art from The City College of New York and an MFA from Syracuse University. She is currently based in New York City as a 2020-21 artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Jasmine Clarke is a photographer from Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by the historical links between nature and mysticism, her images focus on the surreal qualities of our waking world. She is interested in dreams and magical realism, and likes to play with the tension between fiction and reality to create ethereal and alluring images. She graduated from Bard College in 2018 with a BA in photography. Clarke’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she was recently selected for the 2020 Lit List and was a 2020 Critical Mass Top 200 finalist.
Nadiya Imani Loyisa Ntlabati Nacorda is a Blasian artist, photographer and Taurus currently living and working in Syracuse, New York. She was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Filipinx immigrant father and a Xhosa mother. Throughout the year, she travels around the country photographing her immediate family. Her work focuses on notions of intimacy, affection, displacement, secrecy, and generational trauma within the context of Black and POC immigrant-American family life. Nacorda received her BFA in Photography & Film from VCU Arts in Richmond, Virginia. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Art Photography at Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Midwest Center for Photography, the Detroit Public Library art gallery, RISD’s Red Eye Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island, and Candela Books + Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. She is also a 2019 finalist of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward competition and was selected for the 2020 Lit List.
Aaron Turner (b.1990) is a photographer and educator currently based in Arkansas. Aaron also uses the view camera to create still life studies on the topics of race, history, blackness as material, and the role of the black artist. Aaron founded a curatorial project titled Photographers of Color in 2014 to aggregate the historical and contemporary work made by artists of color working in lens-based media. Aaron is currently developing the beginning stages of the Center for Photographers of Color within the School of Art at the University of Arkansas in the form of a Research Fellowship appointment with teaching duties. His awards include 2018 Light Work Artist-in-Residence, 2019 En Foco Photography Fellow, and 2020 Visual Studies Workshop Project Space artist-in-residence. He is also the host of The Photographers of Color Podcast.

Greg Giesy featured artist at PhotoZone Gallery
2020-12-29 12:00 - 18:00 | PhotoZone Gallery, 22 West 7th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Greg Giesy, Moments In Nature
Featured Artist Exhibit, PhotoZone Gallery
December 3 to 29, 2020
PhotoZone Gallery
22 West 7th Ave.
Eugene, Oregon
541-683-0759
12:00 to 6:00 pm Tuesday through Sunday
photozonegalleryoregon@gmail.com
https://www.photozonegallery.com/
Open to the public (Wear a mask)
Photography allows me to lose my thoughts of everything else and try to capture the moment.
I do this with cameras and lenses that let me capture that moment in all its fine points at a distance that does not make me the instigator of that moment.
Many of my photographs are of birds, insects, and other animals. If you spend any time watching wildlife you will notice that their lives move at a much faster pace than ours. That pace requires me to try to work in their reality by hand holding my camera to move with them to recount the precise moment that is the best photo.
The accuracy of that best photo demands that I am not the initiator of how my subject is reacting to its environment this requires distance. Telephoto lenses allow that distance, the larger the millimeter the more I am away from my subject. Improvements in my skills and in technology have permitted me to go from a 200mm lens to a 400mm lens to a 600mm lens to an 800mm lens to a 1000mm lens and finally to a 1600mm lens all handheld. (For those who are photographers the last two lenses are a 500mm and an 800mm with a 2x Extender.)
The best photo of my subject also requires detail I use a 45- megapixels and 50-megapixels camera for extreme fine detail and the ability to use the part of the picture that I want and to print mostly to 13”x19”.
My hope is the moments in nature that are my photographs depict accuracy and clarity for the viewer.
Presented by the PhotoZone Gallery, a collection of diverse individuals interested in the art and craft of photography. A wide variety of skills are valued which range from masters of silver print, platinum/Palladium, gum bichromate, etc., to enthusiasts of digital production. Many kinds of work are welcome, including hand-colored, airbrush, 3-D, collage, HDR, portraiture, street photography, nature photography, abstract expression, mixed media, and the list goes on.

Blue Sky Gallery Call for Entries for 2021 Pacific NW Drawers
2020-12-28 22:58 - 22:59 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Call for Entries: 2021 Pacific NW Drawers
Deadline: Monday, December 28, 2020, 10:59 PM PST
There is no entry fee. Only one entry per artist is permitted. Blue Sky cannot respond to inquiries about the status of a submission, nor are the jurors or Blue Sky staff able to offer feedback or reasoning for rejected submissions.
Blue Sky established the Pacific NW Drawers (“the Drawers”) program in 2007 to recognize regional contemporary photographers through an annual juried public archive. Visitors to Blue Sky’s galleries in Portland are welcome to enjoy work in the Drawers by simply opening any one of the archival flat files. Viewers can also enjoy the Drawers work via an online exhibition on Blue Sky’s website, available throughout the year. We are pleased to open the 2021 call, juried by Yaelle S. Amir and Aaron Turner.
Submission Guidelines
All entries must be submitted using Call for Entry (CAFE) online (follow the link to see complete guidelines and call information). Please set up a free CAFE account here if you do not have one already.
Any photographer who is a current resident of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia, or Alaska is invited to submit work for consideration. Please ensure that your CAFE profile reflects residency in one of these locations.
Submitting to this Call for Entries requires exactly 10 images (no watermarks) from a single series or body of work created within the last five years. If an applicant has previously been featured in the Drawers, the submission must be of new or different work. Submitted images must be the same as the original prints intended for inclusion in the Drawers. Absolutely no substitutions will be permitted.
Please include a concise artist statement, CV or resume, and details about each print including print type/medium, size, and price.
If accepted, works must be delivered to the gallery matted, mounted, or protected in some way for handling. Due to the physical dimensions of each drawer, the matted or mounted sizes of accepted works are not to exceed 20” x 24” x 1.5″ when stacked together.
All prints selected for the Drawers are eligible for sale with the artist’s permission, with a 50% commission retained by Blue Sky. Artists who are currently represented by a gallery are asked to ensure that a Drawers entry does not infringe on any standing agreements before making a submission. Blue Sky will not be responsible for negotiating commissions with an artist’s representation or sending commission payments to an artist’s gallery. Artists must plan to make separate payment arrangements with their gallery representation.
Deadline for submissions is 10:59 PM (PST), Monday, December 28, 2020. There is no entry fee. Only one entry per artist is permitted. Blue Sky cannot respond to inquiries about the status of a submission, nor are the jurors or Blue Sky staff able to offer feedback or reasoning for rejected submissions.
Accepted artists will be notified no later than February 5, 2021. Accepted works must be received at Blue Sky no later than 5:00 PM (PST) on Sunday, March 21, 2021. Accepted works will debut in the Drawers to the public in Spring 2021.
2020 Jurors
Yaelle S. Amir is a curator and researcher with a primary focus on artists whose practices supplement the initiatives of existing social movements, rendering themes within those struggles in ways that both interrogate these issues and promote them to a wider audience. Yaelle’s programming has appeared in art institutions throughout the United States including Artists Space (NY), CUE Art Foundation (NY), The Elizabeth Foundation (NY), Franklin Street Works (CT), Holding Contemporary (OR), and Marginal Utility (PA) among many others. She has held curatorial and research positions at major institutions including MoMA NY, the International Center of Photography, and New York University. In Portland, she was Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Newspace Center for Photography and Co-Curator of the Portland2019 Biennial. She was recently named he 2020-2021 Curator-in-Residence at University of Oregon’s Center for Art Research (CFAR) and she currently teaches art and curatorial studies at Lewis & Clark College.
Aaron Turner (b.1990) is a photographer and educator currently based in Arkansas. Aaron also uses the view camera to create still life studies on the topics of race, history, blackness as material, and the role of the black artist. Aaron founded a curatorial project titled Photographers of Color in 2014 to aggregate the historical and contemporary work made by artists of color working in lens-based media. Aaron is currently developing the beginning stages of the Center for Photographers of Color within the School of Art at the University of Arkansas in the form of a Research Fellowship appointment with teaching duties. His awards include 2018 Light Work Artist-in-Residence, 2019 En Foco Photography Fellow, and 2020 Visual Studies Workshop Project Space artist in residence. He is also the host of The Photographers of Color Podcast.

Glenna Jennings at Blue Sky Gallery (virtual)
2020-12-09 17:00 - 19:00 | OR
Glenna Jennings, At Table
December 3, 2020–January 30, 2021*
Zoom Artist Talk with Glenna Jennings
Wednesday, December 9, 5:00 PM PST (RSVP link)
Free and open to the public.
*To do our part to help our community in fighting the growing COVID-19 impact, we will close Blue Sky to the public on November 29. Our December/January shows will go up as planned, and while we will remain closed until the freeze in Multnomah County is lifted, we ensure there will be many ways for you to enjoy the new exhibitions virtually. Stay tuned and please, please stay safe!
In her ongoing series At Table, photographer Glenna Jennings focuses her lens on everyday moments shared over meals in dining rooms, kitchens, restaurants, and bars around the world. Her images capture subtle drama and humor, while also functioning as cultural artifacts and personal memories. Since 2005, Jennings has been traveling to locations throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, China, and Europe, but in 2020 the global pandemic kept her close to home in Dayton, Ohio. Photographing smaller, socially-distanced gatherings provided new imagery to the series “that will serve as a reminder of the year we struggled —separately and together—to survive a global pandemic while putting food (and often drink) on the table.”
Glenna Jennings is an artist and educator whose work includes photography, curating, and socially-engaged art. She is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Dayton, Ohio, and completed her MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego in 2010. She also holds BAs in English and Spanish from Pepperdine and a BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design. Jennings has exhibited throughout the US, Mexico, Europe, and China. Recognition of her work includes several Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards and a Robert Rauschenberg Residency Award through Photolucida Critical Mass 2019. Her work resides within the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, AMNUA Museum China, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and multiple private collections. She is actively involved in food justice issues in Dayton, Ohio and beyond, and was recently awarded the Educator Food Champion award at the 2019 Montgomery County Food Summit for her work with Desert Kitchen Collective.

Grace Weston Book Release - The Neighbors Will Talk
2020-12-07 08:00 - 17:00 | OR
Grace Weston, The Neighbors Will Talk
Grace Weston Book Release
A limited edition book of Grace Weston’s photography, published by Peanut Press.
https://peanutpressbooks.com/collections/peanut-portfolios/products/the-neighbors-will-talk
This beautiful, signed, limited edition book, published by Peanut Press, arrives with a signed, numbered, archival print of the image “House of Atlas” artfully printed on heavy archival Hahnemuhle paper.
With only 100 in the edition, Peanut Press is expecting the edition to sell out. Price, including the original archival print, is $125. Books will ship in early December.
The link for more info and to order:
https://peanutpressbooks.com/collections/peanut-portfolios/products/the-neighbors-will-talk
Based in Portland, Oregon, Grace has gained international recognition for her staged narrative photography combining humor and psychological tension in miniature dramas infused with perplexity, mystery, or the sense of absurdity found in daily living. Her award-winning artwork has been shown in numerous exhibitions and publications domestically and abroad, and is held in many public and private collections. Grace has also been commissioned to create work in her signature style for magazines, book covers, CDs and posters.
graceweston.com

PCPDX ‘Picture Picture; The Photographer Behind the Photos’ featuring Teresa Meier; a Virtual Event
2020-11-14 18:00 - 20:00 | OR
Teresa Meier
PCPDX ‘Picture, Picture’ Presents
Saturday, November 14th, 2020, 6-8:00 PM
$10 contribution (also gets you a raffle ticket for the evenings GC’s)
RSVP HERE: http://evite.me/Ycdf7Jk3Qh
https://www.photoclubpdx.com/events/nov-2020-picture-picture-teresa-meier

“I contemplate the shared truths of the human story–love, fear, home, family, birth, aging, dying–through the lens of the surreal. In a series of autobiographical self-portraits, I examine identity within the context of family history and the natural world. The work tackles the interwoven complexities of past and present and, specifically, how the past shapes and dictates our perception of our present self and relationships. I encourage introspection and inspire awe through journey-like narratives and fantastical landscapes embedded with unexpected juxtapositions of characters and settings.”

Christopher Landis at NewZone Gallery
2020-11-08 13:00 - 15:00 | New Zone Gallery, 110 E 11th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Christopher Landis, Las Vegas Pandemic 2020
Presented by Photography At Oregon
November 4th through November 30th
Reception is November 6 from 5pm to 8pm
An Artist Talk will take place on ZOOM at 1:00 pm November 8th
Use this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84646523312 to join
NewZone Gallery, Klausmeier Room
22 West 7th Ave Eugene, Oregon
(541) 517-1488‬ Steve LaRiccia, Gallery Coordinator
Tuesday through Sunday 12 to 6pm
Mask Required
By March 18th 2020, a statewide response to the COVID-19 pandemic ordered the closure of all non-essential Nevada businesses. Overnight, Las Vegas casinos, hotels, restaurants, clubs and shops were shuttered. With a workforce dependent on tourism, the city was hit hard by unemployment resulting from the temporary pandemic closures. Host to an annual 42,000,000 visitors, the famed “Strip” was suddenly a western ghost town. The thousands of autos and pedestrians that packed Las Vegas Boulevard, all but disappeared. Skateboards and families on bicycles were seen cruising the abandoned strip. Known as the busiest intersection in the world, the junction of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana was all but vacant.
In early May, after 78 days mandated closure, some Las Vegas attractions gradually reopened with reduced occupancy, social distancing and COVID-19 cleaning protocols. Christopher Landis has captured this surreal Las Vegas landscape at one of it’s most poignant moments in his series of photographs exhibited at the NewZone Gallery in Eugene, Oregon.
Christopher has an MFA in Photography and an MA in History. His fine art landscape portfolios have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States. Landis’ documentary works Pilgrimage: Images from Manzanar, and In Search of Eldorado: The Salton Sea earned international recognition. New projects in process include, Names on the Land, Common Places: American Battlefields, Viewpoints, Return to Eldorado: The Salton Sea and Las Vegas Pandemic 2020. Recently retired from a 45 year career as a business owner/manager, decades of photo works will soon be published in print and on the web.
https://www.christopherlandis.com/

Patrick Plaia at PhotoZone Gallery
2020-11-06 17:00 - 20:00 | PhotoZone Gallery, 22 West 7th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Patrick Plaia, Graves of Rarotonga
Featured Artist, PhotoZone Gallery
November 5 to December 1, 2020
Reception: November 6th, 2020 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm
MASKS REQUIRED
PhotoZone Gallery
22 West 7th Ave.
Eugene, Oregon
541-683-0759
12:00 to 6:00 pm Tuesday through Sunday
https://www.photozonegallery.com/
Open to the public
Rarotonga is the main island of the Cook Island group, which is located in the South Pacific between the Fiji Islands and the Polynesian Islands. It is populated by Polynesian Maori and New Zealand English. I visited the Islands for three weeks in the Spring of 2001.
Traveling around the Islands I noticed graves and gravestones decorated with colorful plastic flowers and portraits of the deceased. These gravestones were not only in churchyards but along roadsides, on the edges of farm fields, and in resident’s front yards. The Maori are very connected with their ancestors and feel more confortable having past family members close by. Their relationship with the deceased shows a blend of native religion and Christianity.
I photographed this project on black and white infrared film. They are printed on silver gelatin photographic paper and hand painted with oils.

Dan and Stephanie Peterka at Pushdot Studio
2020-11-06 08:30 - 17:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Dan and Stephanie Peterka, SKALKA
OPEN/CLOSE: Nov 6th, 2020 – Jan 29th, 2021
Pushdot Studio
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
(in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street)
Portland, OR 97202
503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
lincoln@pushdotstudio.com
Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
MASKS REQUIRED

Jay Mather at the Portland Art Museum (Virtual)
2020-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 | OR
Jay Mather, From Cambodia to the Cascades: A photographer’s visual life
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’s
Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 Noon – 1 pm
Zoom: Click here to register
From Cambodia to the Cascades: A photographer’s visual life.
A photojournalist working in the newspaper industry covers wide-ranging topics, events, and people. In the arc of my fifty-year career there are several topics that are the core of my evolution from Pulitzer Prize photojournalism to the serenity of landscape photography in Oregon.
When I reflect on these projects, I understand how each one moved me visually in a new direction and added a deeper respect for the value of documentary photography.
From Cambodia, Yosemite National Park, the world of ballet, artists of the Sisters Folk Festival and now central Oregon, telling the story of my home, this is my photographic life.
Jay Mather is a Pulitzer Prize awarded photojournalist. His interest in photography
began while he was a United States Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia, 1969-70.
During his career he worked in Denver, Colorado, Louisville, Kentucky, and
Sacramento, California.
During Jay’s career he has covered a wide range of subjects and people. He has
spent time with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity, Pope John Paul II
and President Clinton. On the other end of the spectrum he has worked on projects
about hunger, homelessness, AIDS, and other issues that remain timely today.
In November 1979, while working for the Courier-Journal in Louisville,
Kentucky, Jay and fellow journalist Joel Brinkley, traveled to the Thailand-
Cambodia border to document the massive exodus of Cambodian refugees fleeing
the wrath of the Khmer Rouge regime and the invading North Vietnamese Army.
This was the beginning of what the world would come to know as the Killing
Fields. Their stories and photographs, a four-day series published in the
Louisville Courier-Journal, were awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for International
Reporting.
Jay has also been a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Coverage of
the Disadvantaged.
Jay has a deep love and respect for the environment. He has hiked and climbed
while photographing throughout the western United States for projects on
Yosemite National Park, the Desert Protection Act in California, the declining
health of the Sierra mountain range, and climate change in Colorado River
Basin. The Yosemite Association published his book, “Yosemite, A Landscape of
Life,” in 1990 for the centennial celebration of the park. For this project he was a
finalist in the 1991 Pulitzer Prize Feature Photography category.
Jay’s current work examines the natural beauty of central Oregon, the Cascade
Range and the high desert and the threats brought by climate change. He divides
his efforts between the Deschutes Land Trust and the Sisters Folk Festival,
documenting the activities in those non-profit organizations.
Jay Mather
jaymather.com
