Anna Daedalus, Kerry Davis and Jon Gottshall, Open Channels
2022-11-20 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Anna Daedalus, Kerry Davis and Jon Gottshall, Open Channels
November 3rd – November 26th
Artist talk: November 20th, 2pm
Gallery 114
1100 NW Glisan,
Portland, OR 97209
https://www.gallery114pdx.com/
(503) 243-3356
Grounded Glass takes as its subject a Sitka spruce swamp and the muddy matter in its tidal flow. These close views of the swamp through mud-caked glass plates challenge the mythology of landscape hierarchy, both in terms of beauty and value; and raise mud to another level. Our mark-making on the murky glass borrows from the cliché verre process to create windows through which elements of the landscape appear in varying degrees of clarity. In dialogue with Floodplain II, which explores urban wetlands impacted by industry, Grounded Glass focuses on a restored swamp after 150 years as rural farmland. The project is a continuation of Palūs, a meditation on this same swamp near the mouth of the Columbia River. Through constructions, photography, and time-based installations, Palūs observes the tidal wetland’s liquid respiration as the waters rise and fall each day.
– Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis
Floodplain II is a continued exploration of the Columbia Slough, an engineered remnant of the shallow streams that once braided the land along the Columbia River as it flows past Portland. Once a highly productive habitat, it was drained and developed, reflecting our historic belief that wetlands were places of disease and pestilence, and that economic activity gave it actual value. Despite a century of industrial waste and runoff, many creatures that depend on wetland habitat have somehow survived. More recently, reflecting our shifting awareness, the Slough has seen some efforts at restoration. Given time and space, nature reasserts itself.
Open Channels, our collaborative exhibit, challenges historical perspectives and asks a provocative question: how do we revitalize a wetland, or any damaged habitat, when we are all too often still engaged in the same activities that diminished it? How do we remake our economic life into something not hostile, but rather sympathetic to the environment, to our mutual benefit?
-Jon Gottshall

Paul Neevel - 60 Years A Retrospective – Photographs from 1962 through 2022
2022-11-20 14:30 - 16:30 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
Paul Neevel, 60 Years – A Retrospective – Photographs from 1962 through 2022
November 4 – 26, 2022
Opening reception: Friday, November 11, 5-7 p.m.
Walk-through tour of the show with the artist and pot-luck reception, Sunday, November 20th at 2:30 p.m.
Emerald Art Center
500 Main St.
Springfield, OR 97477
541.726.8595
Open Tue – Sat 11-4 p.m.
Plus the Second Friday every month, 4-7:30 p.m.
www.emeraldartcenter.org
Free and open to the public
A retrospective exhibit of Paul Neevel’s 60 years as a photographer, including images from 1962 to 2022.
Paul Neevel grew up in International Falls, Minnesota, the “Icebox of the Nation,” through grade school, then completed high school in his father’s somewhat warmer home town, Baldwin, Wisconsin. Paul’s grandfather, Ed Neevel, was the “town photographer” in Baldwin for decades after opening a studio there in 1895.
Paul developed his own interest in photography while he was a student at the University of Wisconsin, and visited the Madison Public Library on a regular basis to read books on photography. He bought his first camera, along with darkroom gear, shortly after graduating in 1962 with a degree in meteorology. While continuing to work on a master’s degree, he began to exhibit and sell his photographs.
His first exhibit in Eugene was a one-person show at the Gross Gallery, on 13th near the University campus, in 1968. He still lived in Madison and didn’t see the show in person, but he moved to Eugene two years later to study at the University of Oregon, one of the few schools to offer a degree in photography at the time. While studying for degrees in journalism and fine arts, he was a teaching fellow for Bernie Freemesser, UO professor of photography, who established the Photography at Oregon Gallery in the UO Museum along with his students in 1966.
During his first 20 years in Eugene, Paul had a camera repair business at home. He photographed traveling art shows distributed by the Visual Arts Resources branch of the UO Museum of Art. He has since photographed artwork for many local artists and more than 150 weddings.
Paul joined the Photography at Oregon Gallery committee in the mid-1970s. He was in charge of installing the monthly exhibits for more than a decade before the gallery was eliminated by a new museum administration in 1992.
In 1989, Paul Neevel was invited to photograph and write for the Eugene Weekly (then called What’s Happening) following his 1988 Jacobs Gallery show, 40 Portraits of Artists. His Happening People column in the Weekly has profiled more than a thousand local personalities nominated by readers since it first appeared in 1996.

Photo Cascadia - Washington Evergreen Book Signing
2022-11-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Elliot Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Photo Cascadia, Washington Evergreen Book Signing
November 30th, 2022 at 7:00 pm PT
Elliot Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Phone: (206) 624-6600
Toll Free: 1-800-962-5311
10am – 9pm Daily
https://www.elliottbaybook.com/
For over 13 years, a small group of the Pacific Northwest’s nature photographers have worked together as team Photo Cascadia. These seven photographers, all of whom have their own thriving businesses, formed the team to promote natures beauty and encourage its conservation. After successfully publishing their first book in 2020 with Portland based Timber Press called Oregon My Oregon – Land of Natural Wonders, Photo Cascadia is back covering the majestically diverse landscape of Washington State.
Washington Evergreen – Land of Natural Wonders also published by Timber Press is a collection of close to 200 photographs that showcase the beauty of Washington. From the thick rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula to the soaring peaks of Mt. Rainier, these landscapes are a testament to the diverse environments that define Washington. For Photo Cascadia’s seven photographers—Erin Babnik, Sean Bagshaw, David Cobb, Adrian Klein, Kevin McNeal, Chip Phillips, and Zach Schnepf—this is a culmination of over 15 years photographing across Washington with these environments providing a constant source of inspiration.
Beyond the beautiful photographs the foreword is from renowned lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle, an accomplished writer, teacher and founder of the Xerces Society. He has written many books including the best seller The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies. In 2020 the movie The Dark Divide, based on the book of the same title, was released starring David Cross as Robert Michael Pyle.
The new book is available for order now and officially released on October 25, 2022. To highlight some of the photos in their new book, Photo Cascadia will be presenting at Elliot Bay Book Company in downtown Seattle on the evening of Wednesday November 30th along with signing any purchased books. Feel free to join the event to meet Photo Cascadia and hear more about the book. The book is available for purchase online wherever books are sold and available at many physical book stores in Washington.
https://www.photocascadia.com/store/books/washington-evergreen/
https://www.photocascadia.com/

#3034 Gloria Baker Feinstein book launch and signing for “I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For”
2022-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 | PLACE Galleria, 735 Northwest 18th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Gloria Baker Feinstein, I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For
Thursday, December 1st 6 – 8 PM
PLACE
735 NW 18th Ave., Portland
503-334-2080
Following the opening, by appointment only.
This is an exhibition of photographs, as well as a book launch and signing for Gloria’s latest book. Kim Stafford, Oregon’s former poet laureate contributed poems to accompany some of the images in the book and will be present at the event to read poems and sign books. Gloria will be signing books, as well. They’ll be available for purchase that evening.
www.gloriabakerfeinstein.com

JJ Gonson at Pushdot Studio
2022-12-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
JJ Gonson, Facing Northwest
Photographs of the Northwest Music Scene circa, 1980 and 90s
OPEN/CLOSE: Dec 2nd, 2022 – Jan 27th, 2023
Opening Reception: Dec 2nd, 2022 6-8pm
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
Boston based photographer Gonson has been “Obsessed with music from the time I was a small girl. In the mid 80’s I discovered that it was possible to get access to musicians and bands by signing on to shoot live and posed photos for magazines and newspapers. For the last half of that decade I shot hardcore and punk bands multiple times a week in clubs around the Boston area. In 1990 I went west, to Portland Oregon. While much of my work is of live music, portraits have dominated my body of work over the span of decades; from the early 80’s to present day. The result of my experiences is a collection of intimate portraits of musicians, friends and fans, both live on stage and candid. My archive includes little seen pictures of Kurt Cobain, Elliott Smith, Jane’s Addiction, Black Flag and hundreds of other punk and independent bands. My work has been published in books including Torment Saint: a Biography of Elliott Smith, Cobain Unseen and Cobain on Cobain as well as in fanzines such as xXx and Suburban Voice and many magazines, including Rolling Stone, Mojo, Q and Spin.” This show focuses on some of her NW bands collection.
JJ Gonson
CONTACT: LINCOLN MILLER, 503-224-5925, lincoln@pushdotstudio.com
PUSHDOT STUDIO: In addition to being an art gallery, Pushdot Studio is a digital imaging resource for artists, graphic designers, and photographers and companies who require archival printing services; high quality scanning; artwork capture; exhibition mounting services; prepress retouching; color work and proofing.

Grady Tarbutton at The O'Brien Photo Gallery
2022-12-03 13:00 - 16:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
Grady Tarbutton, Passages: Moment by Moment
December 2 – January 13, 2023.
Artist reception on Saturday, December 3 from 1-4 pm.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste. B
Eugene, OR 97405
(541) 729-3572
Open weekdays from 1-5 pm.
Call to be sure we are open or to
make special arrangements for viewing.
picmac1945@gmail.com
https://www.waltobrien.net/the-o-brien-photo-gallery
Grady Tarbutton is an amateur photography who chooses most of his work from the human influenced and natural world. This show is titled “Passages: Moment by Moment.”
“Each experience we have is here for a moment. That moment contains the profound and joyful, rough and painful, effort and loss, and then becomes a memory. What was new in a moment yesterday, becomes history today. And what is new today, is history tomorrow.”
“We preserve history in what we leave behind. Buildings, graffiti, petroglyphs, highways and parks. To think that there have been hundreds, probably thousands, of human generations before ours and there will be thousands after ours. Often knowing the present, but thinking it is permanent. And it changes into something new, every moment.”
This show will present a view of present moments, experiences and memorials.
Contact Grady at 360-607-5543, gradytarbutton@yahoo.com
https://www.photozonegallery.com/grady-tarbutton.

Eugene Darkroom Group - Year End Fundraiser Art Market & Benefit Show
2022-12-03 17:00 - 22:00 | Alluvium, 810 W 3rd Ave, Eugene, OR, 97402, United States
Eugene Darkroom Group, Year End Fundraiser Art Market & Benefit Show
Saturday, December 3rd, from 5:00pm-10:00pm
Alluvium
810 W 3rd Ave, Eugene OR 97402
(541) 357-9789
eugenedarkroom@gmail.com
eugdarkroom.org
Eugene Darkroom Group is a 501(c)(3) non-profit in Eugene, Oregon, dedicated to preserving and promoting film photography. Our darkroom and education program are located at Maude Kerns Art Center. Each year, we publish, “WIDE OPEN,” an annual, limited edition photo book featuring work from our members in order to fundraise for our Education & Scholarship Program.
We’re hosting a Year End Art Market & Benefit Show at Alluvium on Saturday, December 3rd, with attractions such as live music, photo-based local art vendors, raffles and silent auction items, and more! All proceeds from our fundraisers go towards our darkroom and education programs, helping us continue to provide access and education in analog photo processes.
https://www.eugdarkroom.org
More event details can be found here: https://www.eugdarkroom.org/exhibitions

Submit to the Blue Sky Gallery 2023 Pacific Northwest Drawers
2022-12-15 22:59 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Submit to the 2023 Pacific Northwest Drawers
Deadline: Dec 15, 2022, 10:59 PM (PT)
Less than one month left to submit to the 2023 Pacific Northwest Drawers
Don’t forget to submit your entry to the 2023 Pacific Northwest Drawers. Submissions will be accepted until Thursday Dec 15, 2022, 10:59 PM (PT). We will not be accepting submissions after this deadline.
Are you having trouble or are not sure where to begin? Click the link below to learn more about our submission guidelines and FAQ!
https://www.blueskygallery.org/2023-pacific-northwest-drawers
Blue Sky is accepting submissions for the 2023 Pacific Northwest Drawers. Photographers from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia are welcome to apply. There is no application fee to enter.
The Pacific Northwest Drawers were established in 2007 to showcase regional contemporary photographers through an annual juried exhibition. Selected work can be viewed in the flat files for a full year at the gallery, or digitally on the Blue Sky website. The online exhibition will remain a part of the Blue Sky digital archive indefinitely.

Rudi Dietrich, Close to Home
2022-12-18 14:30 - 16:30 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
Rudi Dietrich, Close to Home
November 4th, 2022 through January 4th 2023
Opening reception is 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. on Friday, November 4th, 2022
Artist’s talk and potluck December 18th, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. at the Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St, Springfield, OR 97477
Dot Dotson’s Gallery
1668 Willamette, Eugene, OR 97401
541.485-1771
11:30–5:30 Monday–Thursday. Opening only is on Friday November 4th, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
www.dotdotsons.com
Free and open to the public
Rudi Dietrich was born in Austria and spent the WWII years near Vienna. He attended the Realgymnasium in Salzburg and later studied photography the School for Applied Arts in Innsbruck. He passed the examinations for Master Photographer and was active as a teacher and photographer in Salzburg.
He met his wife, Carol, a native Montanan, when she was studying at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. After visiting her home state, he decided, “this I have to try,” and subsequently moved there in 1964. There, he continued his education, studying cinematography and finishing a multi-disciplinary graduate program in Art, Philosophy and Literature with an emphasis on Aesthetics.
He taught at Montana State University in Bozeman from 1970 until 1998, where he was instrumental in founding what is now the School of Film and Photography as well as introducing digital and non-silver photographic processes to the curriculum there. Since his retirement, he has been actively photographing for his own pleasure.
Rudi Dietrich’s personal work deals with the intimate surroundings of his home and family ranch in Dixon. He works in color and specializes in the historical gum-dichromate process. For the last ten years, his work has been largely digital. For him, photography is a way to look more deeply into his life and life of his family. “Looking closely and with heart and eye into the world close by.”
Rudi Dietrich’s work has been shown regionally, nationally and internationally, garnering many awards as well as having been twice-published in the Swedish camera magazine, “Hasselblad Forum.”
Currently 89 years young, Rudi Dietrich continues to be active as a photographer. For him, the most important value is “friendship with the processes of exploring and a constant wonder of growing.”
Rudi Dietrich has exhibited in Eugene under the sponsorship of Photography at Oregon many times. He considers his connection with Eugene “a wonderful gift.”
Check out the Montana State University profile of Rudi Dietrich here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlGCs4nOLus

PhotoZone Gallery member's exhibition
2023-01-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
PhotoZone Gallery member’s exhibition
Jan 10 through Feb 3, 2023
Reception Jan. 13th from 5 to 7pm.
Emerald Art Center
500 Main St. Springfield, Or 97477
541 726-8595
Tuesdays through Saturdays 11 – 4pm
https://www.emeraldartcenter.org
The PhotoZone Gallery will present a group exhibition of photographs at the Emerald Art Center in Springfield, Oregon January 10th through February 3rd. Come meet the artists during an opening reception on January 13th from 5 to 7PM. The Emerald Art Center is located at 500 Main St. Springfield, OR and is open Tuesday-Saturday 11-4pm.
The PhotoZone Gallery, is an artist run photographic collective of diverse photographers interested in the fine art of photography. Genres include landscape and nature photography, documentary styles, abstract expression as well as portraiture and pinhole photography.
Experiencing our group exhibitions, viewers can see many types of prints. These include traditional silver prints, images made from digital capture, collaged and 3-D prints, platinum/palladium, gum bichromate, hand-colored and airbrushed prints.

Meet The Guild at LightBox 2023
2023-01-14 16:00 - 19:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Meet The Guild at LightBox 2023
Saturday, January 14, 4 – 7pm
LightBox Photographic
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, OR 97103
503.468.0238
info@lightbox-photographic.com
We are happy and proud to announce the Guild at LightBox for 2023.
Rachel Wolf, Jody Miller, Julie Moore, Angel O’Biren, Jim Fitzgerald, Michael Puff, Loren Nelson, Sam Blair
The Guild at LIghtBox is a group of eight Photographic Artists that are embedded in the Upper Floor of LightBox. The Guild exhibits work, collaborates creatively, and supports the Mission of LightBox Photographic Gallery.
On Saturday, January 14th from 4 -7pm we invite you to Meet the Guild at LightBox.
We welcome them with new work on the walls and fresh ideas for a great year at LightBox Photographic Gallery. We wish to thank the Guild at LightBox for their endless creativity and helping make everything we do possible!
Jody Miller
I have been a photographer for most of my life. The daughter of two fine artists, I grew up studying painting and drawing. My first camera, a Box Brownie, was given to me at age nine, and the love affair with photography has never ended. In 1982 my work began in earnest after attending Ansel Adams’ workshop in Carmel, California, studying with some of the great fine art photographers of our time.
For 45 years I worked in the television industry in Hollywood as a designer and animator, and my passion for photography melded beautifully with my profession. Now that I’m retired, I have the freedom to practice my art and travel, and am now able to live full time in my adopted home town of Astoria, Oregon.
I am primarily a landscape photographer; but any and all genres of fine art photography are represented in my work. I am eternally fascinated with the play of light against shadow no matter the subject matter. I especially love shooting at night, when shadows and color always delight and surprise me. I am now fortunate to be a member of a superb group of photographers, The Guild at LightBox Photographic Gallery, since 2021.
Jim Fitzgerald
My love affair with the trees and the natural world began at a young age. In my youth, family trips to Yosemite, Sequoia and the Oregon Coast helped set me on my artistic path which I follow today. I am a camera builder, educator, bookbinder and publisher and most importantly an environmentalist.
Being a west coast photographic artist, I specialize in intimate natural landscapes and the images I create are all produced with my hand built large and ultra large format cameras. Each fine art hand made print is a one-of-a-kind interpretation of the scene I have captured on my large sheet of film. I print my work exclusively in carbon transfer, a process perfected in 1864, allowing me to produce unique relief prints of exceptional depth, tone and archival permanence.
At present, my works are presented as framed prints and in 2018 I began creating and publishing my own fine press collector edition books and portfolios. These are printed entirely in carbon transfer with both images and text bound into the editions, a first of its kind in book presentation.
My prints are displayed without glass because I feel that my work is alive and needs to breathe. Furthermore, the archival qualities of my printing process means that nothing in the environment will affect the longevity of the print. Displaying the prints without glass allows the viewer to walk into my work and become one with the scene. Walk around these intimate scenes and see the subtle characteristics of a finely crafted carbon print.
Julie Moore
Julie Moore has been creating her evocative style of art for just shy of a decade. Though she has no formal training in photography, Julie has felt captivated by the visual arts throughout her life. She was first inspired to pick up a camera many years ago while visiting Ireland in the company of a shaman, and she has been photographing the beauty of her world ever since. Perhaps surprisingly, she creates her captivating art primarily with her iPhone, visualizing, creating and processing her images with the camera she carries in her pocket. She also creates some of her images with her Holga, a medium-format film camera. Julie makes many of her prints using the polymer-photogravure process. Drawn to this alternative method of printmaking, she also employs other complimentary techniques during the intaglio printing process, such as chine-collé and à la poupée. About her work, Julie has said: !My images share the way I see the world, its soft tenderness and extravagant beauty, its agonizing loss and exquisite aging. I see the overlooked aspects of life and nature. There is small and precious beauty in the unseen, a part of everyday life that can go missing because it is not prominent, yet has much to teach us.” Julie’s work has been shown in a number of juried exhibitions in various galleries across the country.
Michael Puff
Michael Puff is a retired software architect at Stanford University and a former theater set designer. He now concentrates his energy on Fine Art Photography using 19th century printing processes.
Always involved in the visual arts, Michael began by studying painting. As a young adult, he worked as a scenic painter. During his university years, while pursuing a degree in Theater Arts and Egyptian Archaeology, he designed scenery winning several San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics awards.
His favorite subjects for photography encompass the natural world, the surreal and dancers. “I’m partial to images which are like theater, innovative, thought-provoking, and play with reality and illusion.” The captured movement created by performers forms a foundation for many of my images.
Michael has actively pursued photography as an art form since 2004. Beginning the spring of 2011, through workshops and private session, he has studied platinum/palladium printing with master printer Mark I. Nelson, creator of the Precision Digital Negatives system. Michael immediately fell in love with the hand made printing process. Additionally, he has attended workshops led by Greg Gorman, Elizabeth Opalenik, Diana Bloomfield, and Brian Taylor.
Puff’s work has been exhibited at the Ryan Gallery at Art Intersection, Gilbert,AZ; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; and LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR. His work is included in the book Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP published in 2021 by Focal Press. Puff counts Greg Gorman, Irving Penn, and Kenro Izu among his greatest artistic influences.
A current list of exhibits can be found at: http://mpuff.com/about.html
Angel O’Brien
Angel O’Brien is a poet and an experimental alt-process photographic artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her inspiration comes from the palimpsest that is life and an important part of her creative practice is wandering the streets wherever she happens to be collecting images on film of the things that catch her eye. Angel’s studio is cluttered with boxes and bags of bits and baubles that she collects on these wanderings, everything from a bent nail or fallen shopping list to a rusted brake pad and a headless barbie doll. She is constantly pulling into her work the fragments of place and time that simultaneously divulge and obscure. Her creative process is all about recognising how a time or a place intertwines with a person in a way that creates a moment, and then turning these into a visual memory.
Just after her 22nd birthday, Angel was in a terrible car accident that left her in a coma, and most of her twenties were spent recuperating. This experience of literally being broken and put back together again, of finding something worthy under the rubble can be seen as a theme in her life as an artist. Because of this, Angel has always seen potential in what others might discard. To this end, in 2007 she completed Metro’s Master Recycler program. In 2009, her now defunct restaurant, The Ladybug Organic Cafe, was chosen for the BEST Award by the City of Portland most notably for sending less garbage to the landfill in a year than the average family does in a month, despite serving 25,000 customers in that time.
Working with her hands has always come naturally to Angel, and she spent six years renovating old houses after attending architecture school at The Cooper Union in NYC. She has never stopped with house projects and is forever reusing, giving away and saving things that have more life left in them.
This passion for being creative with “waste” extends very much to her art practice. Everything from saving all the development process wastewater to be responsibly discarded by Metro to avoid its polluting our rivers to soaking paper in leftover gum emulsion to create a unique substrate upon which to make other prints. Using historical photographic processes, such as platinum-palladium, gum-bichromate and cyanotype printing methods, Angel creates the surrealist montages for which she is well known. Each of her one of a kind pieces is lovingly made by hand in her basement darkroom. Though she lives in Portland with her daughter, she has a lifelong case of wanderlust and is often found in other parts of the universe.
Rachel Wolf
Rachel Wolf is a professional photographer who specializes in camera-less photography, alternative/antique processes, and creates immersive environments through light-based installations. Growing up in Alaska, the presence and absence of light has been profound in Rachel’s life and work. The aurora borealis gave her a direct experience of light as both transcendent and embodied. Since then, light has been Rachel’s muse, and her work is devoted to exploring and expressing its multivalent qualities in the field of photography and beyond. Rachel loves to inspire others by sharing her passion for light and photography as a professor and speaker. She also believes in the power of art as a collaborative endeavour and its raising of community. She is a founding member of FO(u)RT Collective, a multi-disciplinary arts collective that creates/curates exhibitions and events. Rachel has exhibited both nationally and internationally including Germany, Hungary, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Seattle, and Portland. Her work is held in both public and private collections. Rachel earned her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and can be found playing in her darkroom in Portland, OR.
“While my images are photographs, the principle method I use to create is without a camera. Camera-less photography consists of the family of grams: photograms, chemigrams, and luminograms. As my camera-less process blurs the distinctions between these grams I call my work liminography, which is an exploration of the essence of the photographic process that consists of standing at the threshold (a liminal space) and turning light into matter. By releasing our expectations of how a photograph is created and what emerges as the image, we are invited to consider what a photograph is, must or can be.”
Loren Nelson
In 1972, Loren Nelson picked up a Deardorff 4X5 view camera and began to organize the world on a four-by-five-inch piece of frosted glass. Nelson photographed with film and used a traditional darkroom to produce silver gelatin prints for over 40 years. But recently, he has incorporated a digital workflow, using 35mm digital cameras and an iPhone to more spontaneously respond to his surroundings, and printing his images with archival pigment inks on fine-art papers. Portfolios include landscapes, seascapes, botanicals, driftwood details, and “Under Wraps”, a series of plastic-wrapped buildings.
Loren Nelson’s photographs are in numerous public and private collections, including the Portland Art Museum; the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR; and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL. He is represented by the Portland Art Museum/Rental Sales Gallery in Portland, OR, and LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, OR, and has been published in View Camera, LensWork, B&W, Analog Forever, and Shots Magazines.
“If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.” ~Anonymous
This quote resonates with my approach to photographing, especially in recent years, as threats to our environment are becoming more and more apparent. For many years I have been content to make carefully composed photographs that celebrate the beauty of our natural world. But lately, I feel an urgency to photograph elements of nature that are in observable danger of disappearing. Working with digital cameras has expanded my vision and inspired me to connect more intuitively to my environment. I am currently working with Willamette Partnership providing images for The Oak Accord, a voluntary conservation agreement with landowners in the Willamette Valley, and focusing on their commitment to preserving and restoring Oregon oak savannas. I am also contributing photographs for the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, for use in helping to protect and preserve our magnificent coastline for future generations.
Sam Blair
Sam Blair has a B.A. degree in English from the University of Denver, and a J.D. degree from Lewis and Clark College of Law. He was a civil litigator for 35 years, with offices in Oregon and Hawaii. When practicing, he was named one of “Americas Best Lawyers”. He also had a weekly column in Kauai’s newspaper, The Garden Isle. He has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Or.
He is afflicted with wanderlust, and retired from practicing Law to pursue his passion of travel and fine art photography. As a self taught photographer, he has explored over 90 countries, and is the recipient of numerous photography awards. His images have been exhibited in galleries in both the U.S. and Canada. His mission is to capture “the essence of things” in other cultures, beaches, and the fascinating homo sapien.
He is also a haiku poet. His poems have been published in multiple literary anthologies and journals. He teaches haiku poetry on behalf of the Writer’s Guild of Astoria, in Astoria, Ore.
Sam is a longtime student of Zen Buddhism, and trained in the Japanese martial art of Aikido, where he earned a Black Belt. He lives in a Pine forest fronting Kyle Lake in Warrenton Or.

Rich Bergeman, More Than Meets the Eye
2023-01-20 16:00 - 19:00 | Umpqua Valley Arts Center, 1624 W. Harvard Ave., Roseburg, OR, 97471, United States
Rich Bergeman, More Than Meets the Eye
January 27 – March 17, 2023
Opening Reception Friday, January 20, 4-7pm
Umpqua Valley Arts Center
1624 West Harvard Ave., Roseburg, OR 97471
Tuesday – Friday 10am-6pm
uvarts.com
541-672-2532

An exhibit of 25 recent works by Corvallis photographer Rich Bergeman explores the transformative effects of infrared light on a variety of Northwest landscapes, including Oregon’s High Desert, the Cascades, the Central Coast, and the Willamette Valley.
The show gets its title, “More Than Meets the Eye,” from the fact that the infrared spectrum lies outside the normal human visible light range. Infrared cameras record vegetation and other organic objects as glowing highlights, and inorganic landscape features, like water and blue sky, as deep dark values.
“Over the past 30 years I’ve been learning how to see and express myself with a variety of different camera types and processes,” Bergeman said. “Infrared, which I took up seven years ago, is my current addiction. It has a hauntingly beautiful quality that can transform otherwise ordinary views of the land, sea and sky into something magical.”
A retired instructor of photography and journalism at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, OR, Bergeman has been exhibiting his photography throughout the Northwest since the 1980s. Originally a large-format film photographer and darkroom printer in silver and platinum, he currently works primarily with digital infrared cameras and archival pigment printers.

The PhotoZone Gallery group exhibition of photographs
2023-02-03 17:30 - 19:30 | New Zone Gallery, 110 E 11th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
The PhotoZone Gallery group exhibition of photographs

February 1st through February 24th.
Opening reception on first Friday February 3 beginning at 5:30pm.
New Zone Gallery
110 E. 11th Street
Eugene, Oregon
541-683-0759
12:00 to 6:00 pm 7 days/week
photozonegalleryoregon@gmail.com
https://www.photozonegallery.com/
Open to the public
Viewers can see our show at the New Zone and the Emerald Art Center on line 24/7 at; photozonegallery.com

Todd Johnson in the Pushdot Studio Gallery
2023-02-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Todd Johnson, Meditations
Feb 3rd, 2023 – March 31st, 2023
Opening Reception: Feb 3rd, 2023 6-8pm
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
Meditations is a series of pictures about experiencing and celebrating the visual language of photography. The work is focused on abstraction and uses a traditional structure of still life. The work is inspired by artistic practices such as painting and sculpture, design and architecture. Other influences come from the history of avant-garde art such as Futurism and Surrealism, Modernism and Minimalism. The philosophy of Meditations is a concept of going deeper into creativity and spiritual ritual.
Todd Johnson is a conceptual and experimental photographer living and working in Portland, Oregon. Johnson received his MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Todd is the founder and director of Black Box Gallery.
www.toddjohnson.info

Laura Kurtenbach, “Femme Noir”
2023-02-11 16:00 - 19:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Laura Kurtenbach, “Femme Noir”
February 11th, 2023 – March 8th, 2023
Artist Reception: Saturday, February 11 from 4- 7pm
LightBox Photographic
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, OR 97103
503.468.0238
info@lightbox-photographic.com
“Femme Noir” is a reaction to how our culture represents women, both in my own experiences and especially in the media. As an artist I have always been interested in how women have been, and still are, presented in our society; often as victims, something to behold, to covet, to control, to be seen, not heard, nothing less or more than beautiful objects. This work cannibalizes ideas found in popular media/culture and refocuses them to address feminist issues and concerns. The end result is a photograph, utilizing mixed media- including collage, sculpture and light as a way to create images which can open the conversation about how women are represented and to help support and empower us all.

ASMP / Pro Photo Supply, ASMP Oregon Start of the Year Social (FREE)
2023-02-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Pro Photo Supply – Event Space, 1801 NW Northrup St, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
ASMP / Pro Photo Supply, ASMP Oregon Start of the Year Social (FREE)
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Pro Photo Supply Event Center, NW 18th Ave, Portland, OR 97209
503-241-1112
marketing@prophotosupply.com
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asmp-oregon-start-of-the-year-social-tickets-526013359117
The Oregon chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers is excited to resume regular programming this year. We are hosting a social mixer for our photo community, and we’d like you to attend.
Meet the board.
Meet the chapter board and your peers. Get a chance to chat with us and tell us what is important to you in your photographic life.
Our mission.
We are here to help protect and promote the interests of independent professional photographers, foster high professional standards and ethics in photography, and, most importantly, cultivate friendship and mutual understanding among professional photographers.
Evening of schedule:
5:30 pm
Check-in and mingle. We’ll have refreshments and snacks.
6:15 pm
A few words from the chapter president and our hosts from Pro Photo Supply.
6:20 pm
Mingle & give feedback.
https://prophotosupply.com/pages/events

Edward J. Pabor Western Hemisphere Photography
2023-02-16 17:00 - 18:30 | University of Oregon School of Law, 1515 Agate St., Eugene, OR, 97403, United States
Edward J. Pabor, Western Hemisphere Photography: Antarctica-Patagonia & the American Southwest

Feb. 13, 2023 – July 18, 2023
Reception: Feb 16, 2023, 5-6:30pm. Light refreshments.
University of Oregon Law School
1515 Agate St (across from Hayward Field)
Eugene, OR 97403
2d Floor Gallery
Gallery Hours: Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm
Dom Vetri, dvetri@uoregon.edu, 541-521-6081
Free
In 22 spectacular photographs, Ed Pabor brings us in close to two magnificent areas of our world. He explores the contrasts of two vast natural areas: Antarctic/Patagonia and the American Southwest. He prompts us to think about the beauty of each and their preservation for posterity.
Ed is an adventure photographer who has documented many natural areas, including his exhibition on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2016 at the UO Law School. He has always been fascinated by light and how it is always changing. He describes his photography as “capturing light to preserve not just a scene but a scene in time.” Ed lives in Springfield and hikes to many of his photography sites.
https://www.edwardpabor.com

Andy Batt's Canyon Photo Float at Pro Photo Supply
2023-02-21 08:00 - 2023-02-28 17:00 | Pro Photo Supply, 1112 NW 19th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Andy Batt’s Canyon Photo Float
February
Pro Photo Supply
1112 NW 19th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97209
503-241-1112
https://prophotosupply.com/

At Pro Photo Supply’s Store Gallery you can view a group show from Andy Batt’s July 2022 river trip & workshop. Andy led a group of photographers down the Green River in Utah, and the work they created is beautiful. Please visit the store to see the work.
https://prophotosupply.com/blogs/gallery/store-gallery-february-2023-andy-batts-canyon-photo-float
“There is a sense of amazement when the dawn light wakes you up after sleeping under the stars listening to the river. You realize your “job” today is to experience that light, take some photos, and then head downstream surrounded by jaw-dropping scenery. And you get to do that for 8 more days. I was lucky to lead a group of photographers down the Green River in July 2022. I was lucky to take the trip myself, but even more so because I could share an incredible place with others. I got to see the landscape through their eyes and experiences. I was rewarded with a week of comradery, talking shop, deep diving on “what is a landscape photograph?” and seeing how changed everyone was by the end of the trip. At the end of it, we have our memories and our photographs. In a way, these photographs are memories put on display. I am incredibly proud of this work — everyone made creative, moving, and inspirational images. I hope that you enjoy the experience of seeing them. -andy batt, Trip Leader, Educator, Photographer, Rafter

Jon Christopher Meyers, A portfolio: twenty years of crafting photographs
2023-03-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
Jon Christopher Meyers, A portfolio: twenty years of crafting photographs
March 7th through March 31st, 2023
Opening Reception: March 10th, 2023 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Artists Talk: March 21st at 6:30 p.m. at the Emerald Art Center
Emerald Art Center
500 Main St. Springfield, OR 97477
(541) 726-8595
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 – 4 p.m. Second Friday, till 7:30 p.m.
photographyatoregon.org
Free and open to the public
Jon Christopher Meyers is a Eugene-based commercial photographer who crafts photographs in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the United States. His work includes portraiture, architectural photography and outdoor and landscape work. He works extensively with people with disabilities, meeting their needs to craft great photographs. He taught and lectured at Lane Community College for over 4 years and leads workshops and classes.
“Photographers mark time with each and every still frame that they make. In the past twenty years I’ve watched my career evolve and my approach to what I do change. With more experience comes more planning, more nuanced and purposeful lighting, and finally refining the narrative of the photograph to tell a deeper story…
Being a successful photographer is more than just delivering photographs. Developing relationships, building trust with clients and managing the business has been instrumental to having had a long career.
Almost half of the work is landscapes . . . The second half of the work is from a variety of projects. Location, studio, people, raptors, architectural spaces. These are a few highlights.”
http://www.jonchristophermeyers.com

South Oregon Coast 3-day workshop on Long Exposure with Thibault Roland
2023-04-01 - 2023-04-03 | OR
South Oregon Coast 3-day workshop on Long Exposure with Thibault Roland
April 01-03 2023
Group size: 6
Price:
$1400 (returning participants and early birds before 04/01)
$1500 (new participants and after 04/01)
$500 non-refundable at the time of registration
Thibault Roland is a recognized 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 for a 3-day workshop April 01-03 to capture the most amazing rock formations and seastacks in the area between Bandon and Brookings, OR.
You will learn long exposure, sharpen your photographic and visualization skills as well as learn some of his best editing tricks during the classroom session planned on Sunday.
To register for the last spot left, email: contact@thibaultroland.com
www.thibaultroland.com

Deb Stoner in the Pushdot Studio Gallery
2023-04-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Deb Stoner, A Closer Look
April 7th, 2023 – May 26th, 2023
Opening Reception: April 7th, 2023 6-8pm
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
Deb Stoner is an American artist, born in 1957. Deb received a BS in Geology from University of California at Davis, and her MFA from San Diego State University. She taught jewelry and metalsmithing classes at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon for over twenty years, and is known for creating innovative approaches to making handmade eyewear through material and design research. She taught over fifty workshops on these techniques at craft-based schools and universities, and lectured widely at symposia and conferences. Deb served on the Board of Trustees at the Haystack School from 2001-2010.
Deb’s work in photography followed similar craft informed investigations that continue to yield innovative work. From early work in black and white in the 1970’s through experimental work in graduate school and while teaching at OCAC, Deb’s radar always included a lookout for darkroom access. While learning about wet plate techniques, a chance demo on the use of a flatbed scanner to create digital negatives caught her imagination, leading to an obsession with making complex still life images of the flora and tiny fauna of the gardens in her neighborhood. A recent commission by the Oregon State Treasury Resiliency Building brought her curiosity to investigate the endangered Fender’s Blue Butterfly with its nectar and food sources. And although her commission to wrap the exterior of a building, the Palos Verdes Art Center, resulted in the very largest scale work she’s ever done, most people’s introduction to Deb’s work is on their way through the Portland International Airport whose permanent collection includes twelve of her works from “A Year in the Willamette Valley”.

Nursing@Noon: Inclusive Photos Project
2023-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | OR
Nursing@Noon: Inclusive Photos Project (online)
April 10th, 12:00 PM (calendar)
This virtual event is presented by the OHSU School of Nursing Alumni Association.
Register Here: Nursing at Noon | The Inclusive Photos Project Tickets, Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite
Cost: Free
The photos that health professions teachers show in class should represent the diversity of students, clinicians, and the patients they serve. Join Linda Felver, Ph.D., R.N., Associate Professor in the OHSU School of Nursing, as she discusses her work to improve access to photographs and videos that help students feel represented and welcome; learn to recognize conditions in skin of various colors; and develop increased awareness of issues related to health in people who are marginalized or face discrimination. Dr. Felver will be joined by her colleague Pamela Pierce, M.L.S., M.S., OHSU Digital Scholarship & Repository Librarian, who plays an important role in this work.
Linda Felver joined OHSU in 1986 and has received numerous teaching awards. Most recently, she received a Dr. Marsha Heims Teaching Scholar Award from OHSU School of Nursing (2021) and a OHSU Faculty Senate Collaboration Award (2022).
Pamela Pierce, M.L.S., M.S. joined OHSU in 2018 and has created a range of digital collections, including ones that spotlight the variety of student work and assist with facilitating Narrative Medicine sessions.
Linda and Pam’s work has generated the OHSU Educational Use Photo Diversity Repository and two LibGuides that are available to anyone who has Internet access, with a goal of increasing the diversity of photos that health professions teachers, students, clinicians, and staff use in education, presentations, and other communications.
This event will be presented online via WebEx and recorded for subsequent posting here. Please email alumni@ohsu.edu with any questions.

Jim Lommasson, Stories of Survival and Remembrance: A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention
2023-04-11 18:00 - 19:00 | United Nations Headquarters, 1st Avenue at 46th Street, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Jim Lommasson, Stories of Survival and Remembrance: A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention
United Nations Headquarters, New York
On display 6 April to 15 June 2023
Opening reception Tuesday 11 April 2023 6:00 pm 7pm EDT
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Visitors’ Lobby
Entrance: 1st Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
Monday to Friday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Closed Saturday and Sunday
This dress belongs to Clarisse Uwonkunda, my daughter; she was five during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. I found it in a grave in Rubavu, Western Province, Rwanda. Last January 2017, I went to Rwanda and wanted to find your bodies (skeleton) and restore your dignity. I found you on January 20th and took you to the memorial site of Nyanza, Kicukiro. I was exhausted after that; I expected to be relieved and feel grateful for that accomplishment but instead became so sick. My muscles were not working, I spent weeks in bed recalling every detail of before your trip to Ruhango and the day of our separation. Our wish was for you to survive even if we die. We could not imagine someone killing a 3 or 5 year old. Helas, no chance for me! God only know! Immaculee Mukantaganira Clarissa Uwonkunda’s Dress (was bought in Egypt when his father was traveling there). • Bodies deteriorate • Bones are found apart • Clothes/dresses are dirty, bloody but keep their forms.
– Immaculee Mukantaganira, Rwanda
Stories of Survival and Remembrance: A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention
This exhibit is organized by the Department of Global Communications (DGC) and the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, together with the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, the War Childhood Museum in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Cambodia Documentation Center. It is endorsed by DGC and the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, in connection with the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
This exhibition features a major initiative, Run Blue, that inspires companies and connects people to take meaningful action on water in the lead-up to the UN 2023 Water Conference. It consists of 16 images from the Run Blue campaign showcasing communities and areas on the frontline of the global water crisis.
Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer and author living in Portland and is a recipient of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

The Annual PAO Auction and Exhibit
2023-05-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Dot Dotson’s, 1668 Willamette, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
The Annual PAO Auction and Exhibit
The gallery exhibits are in three parts:

Part 1 opens Friday April 7th and runs through May 3rd.
Part 2 runs May 5th – 30th.
Part 3 runs June 2nd – 30th.

Different work will be displayed each month.
The online auction runs May 1st – June 30th.
All works will be available online for viewing and bidding.
There will be opening receptions for each of the gallery exhibits on successive First Fridays.
The first reception is on April 7th from 5-6 p.m.
Subsequent receptions will be on Fridays May 5th (calendar)
and June 2nd, from 5-6 p.m.
Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served.
Dot Dotson’s Gallery
1668 Willamette St, Eugene, OR 97401(541)
485-1771
Monday-Thursday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – 5-6 p.m. on First Fridays
photographyatoregonemail@gmail.com
PhotographyAtOregon.org
Free and open to the public

Photography at Oregon’s 45th Annual Auction and Exhibit begins April 7th with the first of three exhibits at Dot Dotson’s Gallery in Eugene. There will be an opening reception on First Friday, April 7th from 5-6 p.m., complete with wine and food. Following that, new works will be displayed each month through the end of the auction period, so watch for the exhibit changes on May 5th and June 2nd so you can see these remarkable prints in person.
The auction itself will be held online and will be open for bids starting May 1st and continuing through June 30th. The entire selection will be able to be viewed online and bids can be made through the website. More information at PhotographyAtOregon.org.
The shows and auction feature works from internationally-renowned artists such as Christopher Burkett, George Tice, Wynn Bullock as well as spectacular works from many outstanding local and regional artists. Don’t miss this chance to see and bid on these fine photographs. All proceeds go toward funding Photography at Oregon’s mission of supporting and promoting photographic exhibits and events here in the greater Willamette Valley area.
PhotographyAtOregon.org

New Visionaries at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2023-05-13 16:00 - 19:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
New Visionaries
May 12 through June 7, 2023
Reception: Saturday, May 13th 4-7 pm
LightBox Photographic
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, OR 97103
503.468.0238
info@lightbox-photographic.com
Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5:00pm

LightBox Photographic Gallery opens “New Visionaries” on Saturday, May 13 with an opening artists reception from 4 — 7 p.m. This group exhibition celebrates the Oregon Educational Photographic Community and recognizes the gifted students enrolled in Oregon University Art departments. Artwork using any photographic processes was considered with work that features the unique vision and creativity of the photographer. Thirty student photographers from around the state were selected to exhibit along with invited faculty. The exhibit is juried by the members of The Guild at LightBox.
Congratulations to the student artists exhibiting in New Visionaries.
Mahalia Alvarez, Hali Autumn, Connor Ayers, Fio Ballerina, Tyler Bennick, Joshen Ray Bonifacio,
Annabelle Bullock, Nathan Burton, Roman Curry, Phoebe Donbavand, Aya Doslu, Kaitlyn Johnson,
Antonio Fernandes-Morales, Yvette Kinyon, Seven Lanes, Tom Manzanarez, Lucas Montpart,
Adrian Parra, Nelson Pitts, Kaz Posley, Jacob Reppeto, Hannah Robles, Claire Russell, Angela Scott
Maria Fernanda Sanchez-Flores, Ash Stone, Roz Stranger, Julianna Tinker, Yaleee Roel, Molly Young
Complete show info is on the LightBox website at http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/.

Rich Bergeman, The Land Remembers
2023-05-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, 1501 E Evergreen Blvd., Vancouver, WA, 98661, United States
Rich Bergeman, The Land Remembers
May 2 – Sept. 15, 2023
Lecture and Book Signing, 1pm, May 20, 2023
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
1501 E Evergreen Blvd.
Vancouver, WA 98661
https://www.nps.gov/fova/index.htm
360 907-1075
Open Tues-Sat 10am-3:45pm
Selections from Rich Bergeman’s “The Land Remembers: Photographs Inspired by the Rogue River Wars of Southern Oregon” are on display at the Fort Vancouver Visitor Center now through Sept. 15. The Corvallis photographer will give an illustrated lecture on Saturday, May 20, at 1 p.m.
The exhibit features a dozen black-and-white infrared photographs from Bergeman’s two-year project exploring the landscapes where the Rogue River Indian Wars took place in the 1850s. “My goal was to bring this largely forgotten war back into our collective consciousness by reflecting on the beauty of the landscapes that played host to those tragic events,” Bergeman said.
One of the least remembered and yet bloodiest of the Oregon Territory’s Indian wars, the conflicts ranged over a broad swath of rugged territory between the Rogue River Country and the South Coast between 1851 and 1856.
The war traces its beginning to the passage of the Oregon Donation Land Claim Act in 1850 and the nearly simultaneous discovery of gold in the region. As settlers and miners streamed in, the various small tribes who lived there suddenly found their hunter-gatherer way of life being destroyed. Skirmishes, murders and atrocities on both sides inevitably followed, until the conflict erupted into all-out war involving the U.S. Army. It ended with the forced removal of the decimated tribes to newly created coastal reservations at Siletz and Grand Ronde in 1856 in what descendants today memorialize as Oregon’s “Trail of Tears.”
An Oregonian since 1976, Bergeman is a retired instructor of journalism and photography at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany. The 74-year-old photographer has been exhibiting his work throughout the Northwest since the 1980s. Over the past two decades he has focused primarily on portraying forgotten Northwest histories through photographs of what’s been left behind. His portfolios can be seen at richbergeman.zenfolio.com, and in book form at blurb.com

Philip Bowser in the Blue Sky Gallery Community Drawers
2023-06-01 08:00 - 2023-07-31 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Philip Bowser in the Blue Sky Gallery drawers
June 1 through July 31, 2023
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
503-225-0210
Wednesday – Saturday 12 – 5 pm
bluesky@blueskygallery.org
http://www.blueskygallery.org/
Portland artist, Philip Bowser, is pleased to announce a new series entitled “Behind The Assumed View,” will be available for inspection at the Portland Photographers’ Forum Community Drawer from June 1 through July 31, 2023. Visitors may remove from the drawer any or all of the 17×22” composite photographs for closer examination.
The premise of the series is that people have learned standards and rules for how things should be. These assumptions can be distortions of reality that help to maintain an unhealthy status quo. Photography and other media, portraying reality as it is assumed to be, at times could be complicit in maintaining the illusion of normalcy.
These prints are the results of my efforts to tear away the thin veneer of expectations to reveal a different reality, one desperately in need of improvement in many areas. Each one starts with a simple photograph, which is then heavily modified in post-processing to give the impression that a lot of work still needs to be done to create a fair and equitable society. The prints are difficult to read, requiring a closer look at the grit and distortions that are invisible when the assumed view is intact and unchallenged. They are puzzles waiting to be solved.
Viewers will find the images at 122 NW 8th Ave, 97209, Portland, OR 97209-3502, in flat storage drawers area of Blue Sky Gallery. The gallery is typically open noon to 5pm every day except Monday, when it is closed. Call 503 225 0210 to check for schedule changes.
Philip B. Bowser
503 560 9002
pbowser@me.com
@pbowser on instagram

Phil Harris in the Pushdot Studio Gallery
2023-06-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Phil Harris, Duration
June 1st, 2023 – July 28th, 2023
Opening Reception/Artist Talk: June 1st, 2023 6-8pm
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

Portland photographer Phil Harris exhibits images from his Duration series of large-scale time-based inkjet prints. The pictures are about the passage of time, change, and the unstable quality of the fleeting moment. All the images were made using a small hand-held point-and-shoot camera, along with some patience and wholehearted attention. Each assembled picture lays out a process of change that can be hard to understand without a visual guide.
Phil Harris has been a Portland-based art photographer for decades. He taught for some years at Oregon College of Art and Craft, and has exhibited his work around the US. His images are held in numerous collections, public and private.

North Oregon Coast 3-day workshop on Long Exposure with Thibault Roland
2023-06-03 - 2023-06-05 | OR
North Oregon Coast 3-day workshop on Long Exposure with Thibault Roland
June 3-5 2023
Price:
$1350 (returning participants and early birds)
$1450 (new participants and after 03/01)
$500 non-refundable at the time of registration
Thibault Roland is a recognized 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 for a 3-day workshop May 7-9 to capture some of the most amazing landmarks in the area between Astoria and Lincoln City, OR. Among others, we will capture the Astoria Bridge and the breathtaking rock formations and seastacks of Cannon Beach, Cape Kiwanda, and Siletz Bay.
During this workshop you will learn long exposure, sharpen your photographic and visualization skills as well as learn some of his best editing tricks during the classroom session where we will also discuss how to improve your images by shooting with intent.
Group size: 6 maximum
TO REGISTER: contact@thibaultroland.com
www.thibaultroland.com

Jason Langer & Thomas Schestag at Passages Bookshop
2023-06-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Passages Bookshop, 1223 NE ML King Blvd., Portland, OR, 97232, United States
Jason Langer & Thomas Schestag at Passages Bookshop
Sunday, June 11, 6:30 pm
Doors open at 6:00 pm; no late entry
Free admission
Passages Bookshop
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209
503-388-7665
www.passagesbookshop.com
Passages Bookshop presents Jason Langer & Thomas Schestag in conversation, to celebrate the publication of Jason Langer’s recent book of photographs BERLIN
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Berlin (Kerber Verlag) is a five-year photographic project on the city of Berlin from the eyes of a Jewish photographer who grew up in Israel and who was deeply affected by his yearly visits to the kibbut’s Holocaust memorial every Yom Hashoah.
The images, shot on black-and-white film, constitute a walk through the city, with an eye towards places where Jews hid or were deported during the Second World War.
Photographing from a feeling of outsized fear about Germany and German people, Langer made images of some of the darkest as well as brightest places in the city. The images are a moody mixture of the tragic, joyous, and erotic.
Jason Langer is a photographer primarily known for his noirish visions of figures in urban settings. He has exhibited his work with Benrubi Gallery (NYC), Galerie Esther Wordehoff (Paris), Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles), Gilman Contemporary (Idaho), and SFO Museum (San Francisco), among other venues, and has published four books – Secret City and Possession (both from Nazraeli), Twenty Years (Radius), and Berlin (Kerber). Langer’s photographs are held in permanent collections, including the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum, and International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, and are represented by CLAMP (NYC), Galerie Esther Woerdehoff (Paris), and Gilman Contemporary (Sun Valley, ID). Langer lives in Portland. https://www.jasonlanger.com/
Thomas Schestag, widely published writer and translator, teaches literature in the Department of German Studies at Brown University. His special interests include theories of names and naming, and the intersection of philosophy, philology, poetics, and politics. Recent publications include Namenlose (Matthes & Seitz), and translations of Rosmarie Waldrop (Hölderlin-Hybride, from Urs Engeler) and Francis Ponge (Le soleil / die sönne, from Matthes & Seitz).
Langer is a confident photographer whose epic images recall the spirit of modernist auteurs like Brassai, Steichen, Kertesz, and Renger-Patzsch. ‘Berlin’ is his most personal book in that it traces the artist’s Jewish roots, his time on an Israeli kibbutz, and what it means for a contemporary American photographer to walk the streets where some of the greatest horrors of the 20th c. were planned and executed. Langer’s collection of muscular images of architecture and alleyways where the ghosts of history can be felt are punctuated by moments of quiet sensuality. — Mark Alice Durant, Saint Lucy Books
