Sarah Graves "The Unknown" online now
2020-09-06 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | OR
Sarah Graves, The Unknown
Exhibition at: www.gravesstudios.com
The Unknown is a curation of images made by Portland photographer Sarah Graves. Sarah values analog methods of art making and uses film to make her photographs. Analog photography slows down the creative process and allows for reflection while making the images. This collection of images entices the viewer to ask questions, luring them to make their own interpretation of what they are seeing. The photographs invite your imagination to create its own story about each scene. Some of the images are subtly haunting, others are dreamy, quiet landscapes that provoke feelings of uncertainty or the uncanny. Drawing on themes of anxiety and uncertainty of the future, these photographs offer comfort by the commonality of unease we feel during these times.
The images will be no longer be exhibited in the gallery and no formal opening reception will be held due to COVID-19. A virtual reception will be held for the length of the show at www.gravesstudios.com.
www.gravesstudios.com

Bobby Abrahamson’s “North Portland Polaroids” at the Plaza of St. Johns (outside)
2020-09-06 17:00 - 20:00 | St. Johns Plaza, Portland, OR, 97203, United States
Bobby Abrahamson’s, North Portland Polaroids
Opening: September 6, 5-8pm
Closing Celebration of “Summer Park,”and exhibit: September 26th and 27th, 3pm-8pm
Exhibition will run from September 6-27, 2020
St. Johns Plaza, intersection of N. Philadelphia Ave. and N. Lombard St.,
Portland, Oregon 97203
(right at the end of the St. Johns Bridge, where Philadelphia meets Lombard, in the heart of St. Johns)
Since the work will be hanging in a public space, it can be viewed 24 hours per day, 7 days per week!
Outdoor Exhibit: More than 450 11×14” darkroom prints hanging from clothes lines in the Plaza of St. Johns neighborhood
Bobby Abrahamson will be exhibiting all 450+ portraits from his 10-year project “North Portland Polaroids” in the Plaza and “Summer Park” in the center of St. Johns for 3 weeks this September. All the photographs will be 11×14 fiber-based darkroom prints hanging from wires strung between trees, also possibly hanging from wires on the top of fencing that borders the park. It will be similar to the exhibit of the work Abrahamson had back in 2015 in St. Johns (see image below, and video link), but this time all the prints will be hanging outside, literally blowing in the wind, at the mercy of the weather and the public!
At the end of the exhibit, at a “closing celebration” of the park, subjects of the photos and their friends / family will be invited to take a print from the exhibit home with them for free! In other words, this is an exhibit for the community, and the prints will be free for members of the community to “harvest” from the exhibit at it’s conclusion!
Bobby will also be setting up with his 4×5 camera and instant film several days during the 3 weeks to photograph residents of St. Johns and add to the exhibit.
A big thanks to the creative vision and community activism of Lauren Everett for making this exhibition possible! Also thanks to the St. Johns Boosters!
Call or email Bobby with any questions: 503-281-4162; bobby@bobbyabrahamson.com
http://www.bobbyabrahamson.com/celebrate-st-johns-video
www.bobbyabrahamson.com
www.instagram.com/bobbyabrahamson
www.bobbyabrahamson.blogspot.com

PCPDX & 'Picture, Picture' Present: Zeb Andrews 'The Photographer Behind the Photos' a Virtual Event
2020-09-12 18:00 - 20:00 | OR
PCPDX & ‘Picture, Picture’ Present: Zeb Andrews
The Photographs: Holgaramas
‘The Photographer Behind the Photos’ a Virtual Event
Saturday, September 12th, 2020
6:00 – 8:00 PM
$10 contribution (also gets you a raffle ticket for the evenings GC’s)
RSVP HERE: http://evite.me/HWVED8F8VF
https://www.photoclubpdx.com/events/sept-2020-picture-picture-zeb-andrews
Zeb Andrews has lived his entire life in the Pacific Northwest, wandering its trails and photographing every opportunity he gets. His day job is at Blue Moon Camera and Machine, a pretty awesome camera shop if he does say so himself. Working at a camera store has led him down many adventurous paths in his photography and inspired him to try many different cameras and films over the years. While his work is as varied as his curiosity, he has carried around a Holga for over a decade and found numerous ways to put that simple plastic camera to good use. One series of images he has created with this camera he calls Holgaramas, and they involve using multiple shots across an entire (or more than an entire) roll of film, piecing the individual frames together like a puzzle to create images in ways he cannot do with single frames. Having added to this collection over several years, he has had time to refine both his technique in making them as well as his thoughts regarding his motivations behind these Holgaramas and what they have taught him about the process of photography.
Meetings and Raffles
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About our new online series, ‘Picture Picture’
‘Picture, Picture’ The Photographer Behind the Photos, airs once a month in place of our meetings and outings until COVID clears. Once we get back to monthly in-person meets and outings, we will continue to host this series as an online event to embrace our extended photographic community across the world.
Zeb Andrews

Kiliii Yuyan at Blue Sky Gallery (virtual)
2020-09-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Kiliii Yuyan, Rumors of Arctic Belonging
September 3–27, 2020*
https://www.instagram.com/blueskygallerypdx/
*Starting on August 15th, Blue Sky will be open Wednesday—Saturday from 12PM – 5PM with priority given to visitors who make an appointment online. Visits are limited to one hour. Reserve your appointment now at blueskygallery.org/appointments
In his exhibition, Rumors of Arctic Belonging, Kiliii Yuyan will present a selection of his photographs taken throughout the Arctic, where the climate and the landscape are radically changing and those who call the region home continue to adapt. A Native Siberian, Yuyan reflects upon his role as both insider and outsider as he documents current traditions while looking towards the Arctic’s future. He writes, “A future North awaits– not cold and unchanging, but living, dying and being reborn. Everyday memories of the Arctic will pass forward as they always have, kept by its Indigenous peoples and hidden in plain sight.”
Kiliii Yuyan is a photographer based out of Seattle, but he can be found across the circumpolar Arctic much of the year. Informed by ancestry that is both Nanai/Hèzhé (Siberian Native) and Chinese-American, he explores the human relationship to the natural world from different cultural perspectives. Yuyan is a 2020 NiaTero Storytelling fellow, Pulitzer Center grantee, and one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers (2019), as well as an award-winning contributor to National Geographic Magazine and other major publications. Yuyan’s public talks inspire others about photography, Indigenous perspectives and wilderness around the globe. He also builds traditional kayaks and contributes to the revitalization of northern Indigenous culture.

Geralyn Shukwit at Blue Sky Gallery (virtual)
2020-09-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Geralyn Shukwit, O Tempo Não Para
September 3–27, 2020*
YouTube Artist Talk with Geralyn Shukwit
https://www.youtube.com/blueskygallery
*Starting on August 15th, Blue Sky will be open Wednesday—Saturday from 12PM – 5PM with priority given to visitors who make an appointment online. Visits are limited to one hour. Reserve your appointment now at blueskygallery.org/appointments
For the past nine years, Brooklyn-based photographer Geralyn Shukwit has traveled the backroads of Bahia, Brazil, returning to communities year after year forming relationships with the families who reside there. O Tempo Não Para, Portuguese for “time does not stop,” is a personal documentation of those interactions and observations of Bahian life. Set in the extraordinarily colorful landscape that contains a palette of bright, cool, and warm colors, each photograph leaves traces of a culture steeped in the rituals and traditions that bind them.
Geralyn Shukwit is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2002, she has traveled to South America and the Caribbean where she intimately photographs daily life, straddling the line between documentary and fine art photography. Shukwit’s photographs have been exhibited in the United States, Spain and Ethiopia, and published in National Geographic, Progresso Fotografico Italy, BIG Magazine, New York Daily News, and Post. She is a winner of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50, AI/AP Latin American Fotografîa, APA/NY and International Photography Awards (IPA), and was nominated for the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award in 2019.

Diana Nicholette Jeon, Nights as Inexorable as the Sea
2020-10-07 17:00 - 18:00 | OR
Diana Nicholette Jeon, Nights as Inexorable as the Sea
October 1–31, 2020
Artist Talk (via Zoom): Wednesday, October 7, 5:00 PM
Blue Sky is open Wednesday—Saturday from 12PM – 5PM with priority given to visitors who make an appointment online. Visits are limited to one hour. Reserve your appointment now at blueskygallery.org/appointments
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blue-sky-artist-talk-diana-nicholette-jeon-tickets-121436781683
Blue Sky exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public
“I’ve always been amazed when friends recount intricate details and entire storylines of their dreams while mine remain in shards—minute fragments of what was. Was it really a dream, or was it a previously forgotten memory seeping through to my conscious mind?”
Diana Nicholette Jeon’s Nights as Inexorable as the Sea is a series of black-and-white diptychs that reproduce the strange and unpredictable nature of dreams and memory. The artist’s uncanny yet poetic pairings of images reveal the inconsistencies of the subconscious, while their presentation in small, open-faced tins simulates the desire to hold onto these ephemeral memories, as if storing treasured snapshots and other keepsakes for posterity.
Diana Nicholette Jeon is an award-winning contemporary artist who lives and works in Honolulu, Hawaii. She holds an MFA from University of Maryland Baltimore County and her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Jeon’s art has received four Hawaii SFCA Purchase Awards, the International Photo Award, 11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Pollux Award, and the Mobile Photo Award, among others, and has been featured in Gente di Fotografia, SHOTS Magazine, Pf Magazine, the Art Photo Index, and LensCulture.

PCPDX ‘Picture Picture; The Photographer Behind the Photos’ featuring Lori Vrba; a Virtual Event
2020-10-08 18:00 - 19:30 | OR
Lori Vrba, Analog Visual Storytelling
PCPDX ‘Picture, Picture’ Presents
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
6-7:30 PM
$10 contribution (also gets you a raffle ticket for the evenings GC’s)
RSVP HERE: http://evite.me/Ta5nDFt3bq
https://www.photoclubpdx.com/events/oct-2020-picture-picture-lori-vrba

Lori Vrba is a self-taught, photo-based artist with a home studio in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her imagery and assemblage is rooted in themes of memory, illusion, loss, and revival with the southern sensibilities of storytelling. Her work is held in private and permanent collections through out the world. Vrba has curated a number of recognized exhibitions including Tribe for the Fox Talbot Museum in 2018. Her first monograph The Moth Wing Diaries was named one of the top ten photo books of 2015 by American Photo Magazine. She is co-founder of Pigs Fly Retreats.

David Simone at Dot Dotsons (virtual)
2020-10-11 13:00 - 15:00 | Dot Dotson’s, 1668 Willamette, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
David Simone, Cuba — An Outsider’s View of Place and People
Presented by the PhotoZone Gallery
October 9 to November 12
Opening is October 9th from 5 to 6pm; Artist Talk on Zoom October 11 @ 1:00
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82360060200
Dot Dotsons
1668 Willamette Street Eugene, OR
541-485-1771
12-5 Monday – Thursday; Closed Friday-Sunday
http://dotdotsons.com/
Free to the public
My wife Karen and I were very fortunate to travel to Cuba in January of 2020. Little did anyone know that in three months, travel there would be restricted and ill-advised.
Cuba had long been near the top of my travel list because of the Cubans’ scrapping yet friendly reputation and for the visual interest of the aging colonial architecture. I am interested in learning from the Cubans about their government and the condition of their lives. Fortunately, Karen speaks Spanish or we would be left like so many tourists, unable to communicate and really understand what is going on. Many Cubans do know at least small amounts of many languages. Cuba is truly an international travel destination. We meet travelers from all over the world and when almost out of luck in the boonies, hitched a ride with a Russian family on a horse drawn taxi. Now travel has all but dried up and like so many people around the globe, the Cuban’s fiscal health is threatened.
For this show, I choose to focus on my images taken roaming the streets of Havana and the provincial capitals of Cuba. As an architectural photographer, I am drawn to the colonial relics and unique facades of a country that has been scrapping for it’s existence for decades. I often got up before dawn to photograph and we would explore in the evenings photographing and enjoying the people and music. My thanks to Karen for her patience while I stopped yet again to photograph.
I have been working on improving my photographic imagery for over 50 years. After studying photography in high school and at a community college in California, I received a BFA from the U of O in visual design and photography. While continuing a fine art practice, I opened Lightworks Photography doing commercial and architectural photography as well as portraiture. I stopped doing commercial work four years ago and am now working on creating photographic imagery that portrays our amazing world.
Artist Talk on Zoom October 11 @ 1:00
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82360060200

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.
Photography At Oregon
supports the area’s photography teaching
programs. It has done so for more than 50 years
promoting the fine art of photography, sponsoring
exhibits, lectures, classes, and workshops, inviting
photographers of national and international reputation,
and showing works of historical importance.
Photography At Oregon
PO Box 50874
Eugene OR 97405
www.photographyatoregon.org/
541-686-1240
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Angel O'Brien, The Distance of Forgetting
2020-10-14 17:00 - 18:00 | OR
Angel O’Brien, The Distance of Forgetting
October 1–31, 2020
Artist Talk: Wednesday, October 14, 5:00 PM
Blue Sky is open Wednesday—Saturday from 12PM – 5PM with priority given to visitors who make an appointment online. Visits are limited to one hour. Reserve your appointment now at blueskygallery.org/appointments
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blue-sky-artist-talk-angel-obrien-tickets-121442498783
Blue Sky exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public
In her series, The Distance of Forgetting, photographer Angel O’Brien uses self-portraiture to look inward while exploring her place in the world around her. The images in the series are the result of intuitive processes, and O’Brien’s unconventional poses and surreal manipulation of her body visualize the complex, layered nature of identity while also disrupting conventional expectations of femininity. Similarly, the artist pushes photography into experimental territory, often using multiple alternative analog and digital photographic processes and incorporating graphite, colored pencil, and ink into her handmade prints.
As O’Brien explains, “I’m giving the viewer not simply a picture, but instead a moment in time that may explore melancholy, censorship, sight/insight/blindness, daydreaming or simply existing in the world as a woman, mother, lover, or friend. Though I use myself in my work, and certainly my experiences influence what I create, I don’t really see it necessarily as self-portraiture. These works are not meant to solely tell my story, but rather are inspired by the experiences of being a woman in the world today.”
Angel O’Brien is a writer and artist based in Portland and San Francisco. Her photography has been exhibited in the United States and in Europe, most recently at Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria and the Albatross Gallery in Gold Hill, Oregon. The Distance of Forgetting was selected for the Critical Mass Top 200 in 2019.

Bill Laing, S.J. Luke, Paul Barden and Phil Coleman at Linn-Benton Community College w/virtual talk
2020-10-20 17:00 - 18:00 | OR
Bill Laing, S.J. Luke, Paul Barden and Phil Coleman, POV/Botaniques
An on-line exhibit presented by the Art Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College
https://www.linnbenton.edu/student-life/arts-and-performance/galleries/digital-exhibitions.php
October 14 through December 9, 2020
Gallery Talk on Zoom October 20th from 5 to 6pm
https://linnbenton.zoom.us/j/93335169122
Linn-Benton Community College
6500 SW Pacific Blvd.
Albany, Oregon 97321
541-917-4999
linnbenton.edu
“POV/botaniques” is an on-line exhibit featuring four perspectives on plant photography hosted by the Art Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College Oct. 14 through Dec. 31. Because the Albany campus is closed to events this term, the exhibit has moved on-line. It can be seen at https://www.linnbenton.edu/student-life/arts-and-performance/galleries/digital-exhibitions.php
The photographers, one from Arizona, one from Northern California and two from the Corvallis area, will take part in a Zoom gallery talk on Oct. 20 from 5-6 p.m.. The talk is open to the public at https://linnbenton.zoom.us/j/93335169122.
Each of the four photographers in the show take a different approach to their search for art within various forms of flora:
•Phil Coleman explores the hidden details deep within flowers through extreme closeup views that play with color and design. “The symmetry and frequent color contrasts, undoubtedly encoded in their genes, attract my eye,” says the Philomath photographer. “Most of the time, a macro lens combined with the merger of many images (focus stacking) let me show features that would be hard to capture in a single photo.”
•Stephanie Luke uses light and shadow to reveal surprisingly mysterious milieus in the natural surroundings of her suburban neighborhood of Cottonwood, Calif. “The search for inspiration is an on-going part of our journey as artists,” says Luke. “My hope is to always be flexible and open enough to realize when it appears. This group of images represents a sampling of what I discovered.”
•Bill Laing, who recently relocated from Corvallis to Oro Valley, Ariz., shares his fascination with the unexpected color and beauty of cacti in the Sonoran Desert around his new home. “I’ve tried to make images that are expressive and evocative through closeup attention to detail and revealing perspective,” explains Laing. “The trick is to slow down and see these plants for what they are—exquisite designs by nature, perfectly adapted to their harsh surroundings.”
•Paul Barden, who lives on a small farm outside Corvallis, is a multi-talented photographer who enjoys learning a variety of photographic processes. For this show Barden exhibits a selection of elegant, often brooding, still lifes made with his 5×7- and 8×10-inch wet-plate cameras, a technically demanding process that dates to the 19th century. After reading “The Secret Life of Plants” as a teenager, Barden says he came to think of our planet’s botanical inhabitants as being on par with our own lives: “complex, aware, and exquisitely responsive to their environments. From that moment on, I saw plant life differently, and my work has long celebrated these Children of The Soil.”

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

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

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.

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/

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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”

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!

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.
