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

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

Jennifer Brommer at Pushdot Studio
2021-06-07 08:30 - 2021-07-30 17:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Jennifer Brommer, Memories Of My Mother + Recent Works
June 4th- July 30th, 2021
Pushdot Studio
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
(in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street)
Portland, OR 97202
503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
My Mother was Paranoid Schizophrenic. I barely knew who she was. But I have glimpses filtered through youth and time, as a teen visiting her through the halls of Bellevue Hospital, or living with her during the early 90s in NYC hotels such as the Chelsea. This project is to recreate scenes that took place to understand who she was. It’s also about me, this kid in the world contending with my mother’s mental illness and the way a child develops a sense of identity in such a setting. This project was photographed in Nashville and Portland using staged sets to reimagine these experiences: a home, hotels, hospitals and environs that suggest institutions.
Recent works will also be displayed.
Thank you to Regional Arts and Cultural Council for the project grant to pursue this project.

Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild at Moreland Gallery
2021-06-12 10:00 - 2021-09-04 16:30 | Moreland Gallery, 1101 Main St., Philomath, OR, 97370, United States
Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild, Quartets
June 4 – September 4, 2021
Moreland Gallery, Benton County Historical Museum
1101 Main St.
Philomath, Oregon 97370
541-929-6230
HOURS: Wednesday through Saturday, 10 – 4:30
Masks and social distancing required
Seventeen members of the Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild are exhibiting four-image portfolios of their work in an exhibit called “Quartets” this summer in the Moreland Gallery at the Benton County Historical Museum in Philomath.
The exhibit stems from a project undertaken during the pandemic shutdown in 2020, when the photographers were asked to create portfolios of four related images to share on the group’s website. “It was a way to keep the creative juices flowing during a time of restricted travel,” explained Rich Bergeman, who helped organize the show.
The creative exercise caught the eye of Benton County Museum Curator Mark Tolenon, who led a juried review of the 88 portfolios submitted for the brick-and-mortar show. The work on view reflects a wide range of subject matter–from colorful cactus closeups to a black-and-white documentary of Portland’s social protests–and demonstrate a variety of photographic techniques, including infrared, intentional camera movement and abstraction.

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

David Simone at PhotoZone Gallery
2021-07-09 17:00 - 19:00 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
David Simone, A Glimpse of Cuban LIfe
June 30 to July 30, 2021
Reception: July 9, 2021 from 5-7
Emerald Arts Center
500 main Street
Springfield, Oregon
541-726-8595
https://www.photozonegallery.com/
PhotoZone Gallery July membership exhibition is showing at the Emerald Art Center. This month’s Featured Artist is David Simone, showing photographs from his ongoing series of images taken in Cuba just before lock down. This collection includes composite images of Cuban life and some that explore Cuba’s history of colonial slavery. Photographs from Cuban towns and rural areas, as well as portraits are also included. “The people are very industrious and generally very friendly. Cuba is a colorful, tropical and visual feast.” “But,” David says, “look closer and you’ll see the history of colonial oppression and cruelty. Look again, for the common person, the revolution’s outcome has yielded mixed results.”
The exhibition runs from June 30th through July 30th. The Emerald Art Center is located at 500 Main St. Springfield, OR 97477 and is open Wednesdays though Saturdays 11-4 PM.
A reception will be held July 9th from 5 to 7 pm at Emerald Arts Center.
https://www.davidsimone.com
Presented by
PhotoZone Gallery
https://www.photozonegallery.com/
photozonegalleryoregon@gmail.com

Linda Devenow at PhotoZone Gallery
2021-08-05 08:00 - 2021-08-31 17:00 | OR
Linda Devenow, Dunescape/Dreamscape in “Color”
PhotoZone Gallery, Membership August Exhibit
August 5 to August 31 2021
Online Only for August
https://www.photozonegallery.com/
We have another fantastic collection exhibited online this month of August. Linda is our Featured Artist, with her dreamy Infrared images taken currently at the Oregon Coast.
The Featured Artist exhibit is a part of the PhotoZone Gallery’s collection of photographs by its members, a diverse group of individuals interested in the fine art of photography. This includes silver print, platinum/palladium, gum bichromate, and 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. All exhibits are refreshed monthly.
In 1988 a group of 18 photographers opened an exhibit in the old Midgley Building on High Street in Eugene, Oregon, and the PhotoZone Gallery was born. Of the group’s purpose a member wrote, “The primary requirement for membership is a dedication to photography as an expressive medium.” A quarter century and 100+ exhibits later PhotoZone continues to provide a venue for fine art photography in Eugene. The group continues to exhibit in various locations and sponsors its annual juried show (currently on hold due to COVID) which is open only to non-members. Many photographic artists receive their first public exposure by entering PhotoZone’s annual juried show.
https://devenowphotography.com/

Sarah Graves at Buckley Center Gallery
2021-08-16 08:30 - 2021-09-16 16:00 | Buckley Center Gallery, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, OR, 97203-5798, United States
Sarah Graves somewhere only we know
August 16-September 16th, 2021
University of Portland, Buckley Center Gallery
5000 N Willamette Blvd, Portland, OR 97203
Mon-Fri 8:30am-8pm, Sat & Sun 8:30am-4pm
https://pfaatup.wixsite.com/bcgallery
somewhere only we know is a collection 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 curation is inspired by distant places close to our heart. Many of us have experienced this emotion due to recent world events. This sentiment is embodied in a German word, fernweh. The word is a combination of fern, meaning distance, and weh, meaning an ache, misery or sickness. It translates to ‘far woe’ or an ache to explore far-flung places. The images are places of importance both far and near that were not able to be visited for a time. They are places in the artist’s memory preserved on film. They offer both comfort and longing. They are bittersweet places, out of the reach of time, both untouched and untouchable.
www.gravesstudios.com

Stu Levy & Willie Osterman Photography Workshop on the Oregon Coast
2021-08-20 08:00 - 2021-08-24 17:00 | OR
Stu Levy & Willie Osterman Photography Workshop, Shore Acres and the Oregon Coast
August 20 to 24, 2021
Workshop Fee: US $750
To register for the workshop, contact Stu at DrZone5@gmail.com
Shore Acres and the Oregon Coast will be the focus of this workshop. On the Oregon coast west of Coos Bay, Shore Acres is often termed the “Point Lobos of Oregon.” It is an area of convoluted rock forms and tide pools. North and south along the coast are pristine sand dunes and volcanic “seastacks” forming the rugged coastline.
This is the backdrop for an intensive photographic experience with Stu Levy and Willie Osterman. Early mornings and late afternoons will feature field sessions with camera side evaluation of composition and exposure. At mid-day, the instructors will lead print viewing and critique sessions and will present their own work.
Stu and Willie are intimately familiar with the region and offer you a unique combination of technical expertise and creative insight which promises to make this workshop an unforgettable experience. We will be based at the Edgewater Inn in Coos Bay, where a block of rooms has been reserved for the workshop participants.
All camera formats, film, digital, and all printing approaches are welcome.
For everyone’s safety, completed COVID vaccination is a requirement for attending the workshop.
Willie Osterman is a Fulbright Scholar and a professor of Fine Art Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. He taught and was an assistant at the Ansel Adams workshops in Yosemite Park. His first sabbatical was in Yosemite National Park spending a year documenting the workers, visitors and the land. His publication ‘Déjà View: A Cultural Re-Photographic Survey of Bologna, Italy’ in its second edition is now out of print.
He has over 80 exhibitions in the US, Italy, Turkey, Austria, China and Croatia. His work is included, among others, in the collections of the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the University of New Mexico Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Alinari Photographic Archive in Florence, Italy and Muzej Grada Zagreba (City Art Museum of Zagreb), Croatia.
Stu Levy is a photographer living in Portland, Oregon. He has led photography workshops on the Oregon Coast for over 30 years. He studied with Ansel Adams and was an assistant instructor for Ansel’s workshops in Yosemite and Carmel; he was also an instructor at the Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops.
His photographs are in many public and private collections including The Center for Creative Photography, the George Eastman House, the Portland Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Francisco Civic Center, Portland Visual Chronicle and the Wilson Centre for Photography.

Thibault Roland 3-day Palouse workshop
2021-08-28 08:00 - 2021-08-30 17:00 | OR
Thibault Roland, 3-day Palouse workshop
August 28-30 2021
http://www.thibaultroland.com
Group size: 6 maximum
$1200 (returning participants and early birds)
$1300 (new participants and after 07/15)
$400 non-refundable at the time of registration
Thibault Roland is a Sony Artisan of Imagery and fine art photographer who specializes in seascapes, landscapes and architecture. He is a master of long exposure, infrared, tilt/shift and black and white photography.
Join him in the Palouse for a 3-day workshop August 28-30 to capture gorgeous rolling hills, the contrasts of the fields as they are being harvested, and elegant wind turbines. Last but not least, he will bring you to secret locations where you’ll get to shoot spooky abandoned houses and lone trees!
If you want to learn long exposure, sharpen your photographic and visualization skills, this photo adventure will be perfect for you! Cherry on the cake, Thibault will share some of his best editing tricks during the classroom session and provide feedback in order to develop intent and create unique images.
TO REGISTER: contact@thibaultroland.com

Rich Bergeman, New Work
2021-09-01 12:00 - 2021-10-30 16:00 | River Gallery, 184 S. Main St., Independence, OR, 97351, United States
Rich Bergeman, New Work
September 1 – October 30, 2021
River Gallery
184 S. Main St., Independence, OR
Thur-Sun 12-5pm
www.rivergalleryart.com
As the Featured Artist at the River Gallery this fall, Corvallis photographer Rich Bergeman will be showcasing a collection of 10 recent black-and-white infrared photographs. The images include landscapes, cloudscapes and Americana photographed from one end of Oregon to the other–from the Malheur Refuge in Eastern Oregon to Cascade Head and Astoria on the Coast.
Rich is a retired educator and journalist who has been exhibiting his photography throughout the Northwest for more than 30 years. 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. He is perhaps best known for his photographic narratives on forgotten histories of the Pacific Northwest.
His work can be seen at richbergeman.zenfolio.com and blurb.com.

Eugene Darkroom Group - Community Wide Analog Photography Show
2021-09-04 18:00 - 20:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
Eugene Darkroom Group – Community Wide Analog Photography Show
September 3 through October 8
Opening reception on Saturday September 4 from 6-8 pm.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste B.
(541) 729-3572
Open Monday through Friday from 1-5.
Call to make special viewing arrangements.
Chris Moody, Where Soul Meets Body 2020
Community Chest is annual group exhibition presented by Eugene Darkroom Group. The show is comprised of a variety of analog film-based print media made in 2020 or 2021. Exhibited works include silver gelatin prints, instant film, alternative process photography, and more.
Eugene Darkroom Group is a 501c3 non-profit in Eugene, Oregon, dedicated to preserving and promoting film photography. They are committed to revitalizing the medium by investing in the photographic talent of the people in the Eugene area. They provide a thoroughly equipped darkroom for film photographers and accessible education about the medium to the community.
Eugene Darkroom Group’s membership based community darkroom and education program are located at Maude Kerns Art Center. Learn more about the group, membership, classes, open darkroom hours, and more at EUGdarkroom.org.
Website: https://www.eugdarkroom.org
email for gallery: picmac1945@gmail.com.
email for Eugene Darkroom Group: eugenedarkroom@gmail.com

Robbie McClaran at Pushdot Studio
2021-09-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Robbie McClaran, The Great River of the West
August 6th- October 1st, 2021
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10th, 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
Beginning in 2013, and working with an antique eight-by-ten, large format camera, Robbie McClaran has been photographing along the entire 1250-mile length of the Columbia River, from its source in British Columbia to its confluence with the Pacific Ocean. “The Great River of the West”, explores the River’s current cultural and economic landscape as well as environmental alterations. The photographs serve as an 21st century archive of the landscape and communities along the River, with an eye towards its significance in the history of the Pacific Northwest and North America.
Robbie McClaran is a documentary and fine art photographer whose work focuses on the American people and landscape. His work has been widely exhibited and published, appearing in numerous magazines throughout the world.
Robbie’s work is held in several private and public collections including The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Portland Art Museum, and New Orleans Museum of Art.
This project has been generously supported by grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Ford Family Foundation and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC).

Masterclass with Richard Renaldi: Throughline of the City
2021-09-16 08:00 - 2021-09-19 17:00 | Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Masterclass with Richard Renaldi: Throughline of the City
September 16-19, 2021 with additional meeting date online TBD
Photographic Center Northwest,
900 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 720-7222
$800, scholarship opportunities available
https://shop.pcnw.org/products/masterclass-with-richard-renaldi-through-line-of-the-city
Join renowned photographer Richard Renaldi for this Masterclass intensive, working together to collectively photograph a core-section of Seattle by way of Madison Street as it bisects the city. Over the course of four days, Richard will present ideas, strategies, and inspiration, and will work alongside the group following the urban thoroughfare as it traverses through the city’s historic waterfront, downtown municipal core, Capitol Hill, the edge of the Central District, Madison Valley, and ultimately ending at the foot of Lake Washington.
Participants are encouraged to work within any format: portraiture, landscape, still life, vernacular, or abstract – anything photographic. Part of the final in-person session will be used to edit and sequence a photobook/zine featuring the collective efforts of all the participants. Later, once the photobook has been printed and all of the participants have received their copy, the group will reconvene with Richard online over Zoom to discuss their printed group effort (date and time for online session to be coordinated with group).
ARTIST LECTURE
In addition to the Masterclass, Richard Renaldi will present an artist lecture at PCNW on Friday, September 27, 2021 at 6pm. Free with RSVP. Copies of Richard’s books will be available for purchase and signing following the lecture.

PhotoArts Guild, Finding the Light at Giustina Gallery
2021-10-01 08:00 - 2021-10-30 17:00 | Giustina Gallery, 875 SW 26th St., Corvallis, OR, 97333, United States
PhotoArts Guild, Finding the Light
Oct. 1 – 30
Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Center
Oregon State University
875 SW 26th St., Corvallis, OR 97333
Tues – Fri 10am-4pm
https://lasells.oregonstate.edu
(Check the website for most current operating hours and face-covering policies.)
The Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild’s 12th biennial exhibit, “Finding the Light,” features over 80 photographs that interpret the opening lines of Amanda Gorman’s poem read at the Presidential Inauguration in January 2021. The 23 photographers participating in the exhibit were asked to look for literal or metaphorical interpretations of the poem, in particular its opening lines:
When day comes we ask ourselves
where can we find light in the never-ending shade?
The result is a wide-ranging exhibit of color and black-and-white photographs depicting light in its myriad forms–on the landscape, in the heavens, along city streets and in the dark of night; as well as inside churches, museums, attics, airports–including inside the minds of the artist.
The Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild was formed more than 30 years ago to promote and support fine art photography in the mid-valley and has been an affiliated guild of the Corvallis Art Center since 1988. This is the 12th in the guild’s series of biennial expositions at The LaSells Stewart Center.

Small Talk Collective presents Light Conversation: Vol.2 - a pop-up projection event!
2021-10-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Oregon Contemporary, 8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR, 97217, United States
Small Talk Collective, Light Conversation: Vol.2 – a pop-up projection event!
Friday, October 1st from 7-10pm
This is a one-night event. The formal viewing of the projection exhibition will begin at 7:30pm
Held in the outdoor courtyard of Oregon Contemporary
8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97217
www.oregoncontemporary.org
We are so excited to announce LIGHT CONVERSATION: Vol 2.
This pop-up projection exhibition features the work of 60 photographs representing Portland and beyond – we are so excited to share their work with you!
The event will take place in the Oregon Contemporary courtyard on Friday, October 1st from 7-10 pm. Attendance is free and open to the public. (Please wear a mask when indoors, and when not eating or drinking outdoors. Let’s keep each other safe!)
Come by, get some cute shots with your friends at the Party Cat Photobooth, grab a beverage and a snack from the café, and find a seat on the lawn. The formal viewing will start promptly at 7:30 pm and will loop until the end of the event.
Inside the building, you can see the current exhibition on view at Oregon Contemporary and Strange Paradise will have some in-progress work from Small Talk members on display.
www.smalltalkcollective.com/light-conversation

Jan Becket at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2021-10-09 12:00 - 19:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Jan Becket, Pana Oʻahu
October 9 – November 10, 2021
Opening: Saturday, October 9, 12 – 7pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery
1045 Marine Dr.
Astoria, OR 97103
(503) 468-0238
lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery opens Pana Oʻahu on Saturday, October 9th from 12 – 7pm. The exhibit consists of photographic prints from large format film negatives exposed on the Island of Oahu in the 1990’s by photographer Jan Becket. These prints help preserve to the historical record images of cultural and sacred sites on the Island. The LightBox directors spent years the Islands until 1996, the images in the Exhibit are, in their mind, of a special place and time, and an incredible accomplishment by the photographer.
“An exhibit of 24 images from the book Pana Oʻahu: Sacred Stones, Sacred Land (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1999). Two photographers contributed work to the book: Joe Singer and Jan Becket. This exhibit consists of images in the book by Jan Becket. Joe Singer has since passed away. The book won the Samuel Kamakau Award for best Hawaiʻi book of the year and several Palapala Awards for best photographic book and best book design. Images are of heiau, Hawaiian ceremonial temples and smaller shrines of the makaʻāinana, the common people. There had been a survey of these sites on Oʻahu in the early 1930s by one man, and another partial survey in the early 1950s but nothing since. Often, people living near them had no idea they existed. Thus, in those pre-GPS times, with vague maps, our primary effort was to locate the places. We visited 140 ceremonial sites on Oʻahu, some of which were unrecorded. A few no longer exist, having been sacrificed to development. It took us 12 years to create the images in this book. All images were made on 4X5 black and white film. Images in this exhibit are from those scanned negatives, printed on Moab Juniper. “

George Olson at Dot Dotson’s Gallery
2021-10-10 13:00 - 14:00 | OR
George Olson, Signs of the Times
Presented by Photography At Oregon
October 1st through October 24, 2021
Artist Talk on Zoom Sunday October 10 at 1:00pm
Artist Talk at 1:00pm on October 10th
Dot Dotson’s Gallery
1668 Willamette Street
Eugene, Oregon
541-485-1771
12:00 to 5:00 pm Monday through Thursday
http://dotdotsons.com/
Open to the public, masks required

When I was a kid in Topeka, I remember that my dad had a drawer in his desk filled with maps. I would pick one out, spread it on the floor, find the little towns with funny names and dream of going there…. [Doing so by] car, far from the runways and freeways, there is the rolling-past-yesterday romance of the old routes; the rambling rivulets that flow between East and West; the ribbons that wrap an ever-diminishing rural American into a gift from the past.
Rather than creating images, I find them. The reality is someone else’s; the humor is mine. I might enhance that humor through juxtaposition. Sometimes a “grab shot” is the only way to get the picture. But then that’s just what you might glimpse from your car window as you’re riding.
This is my way of avoiding the straight and narrow of the four-lane bureaucratic beltway. It makes me wonder whatever happened to touring: “Waaall sonny, d’ya want the shortest way or d’ya wanna take the scenic route?
I always take that scenic route.
These photographs are for anyone who has ever taken a ride in a car.
— George Olson
George Olson’s work is known for its wit and moving detail. On the Board of Directors of Northwest Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon, he is former director of photography of Sunset and has photographed for National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, and the New York Times. He was a picture editor for the San Francisco Examiner and books in the Day in the Life series. He was Director of Photography of Baseball in America and edited Planet Vegas. He is on the faculty of the Missouri University Photo Workshop. He served on the faculty of the Book Passage Travel Photography workshop and has taught photography workshops through Fotovision. He participated in Photography at the Summit workshops in Jackson Hole and Colorado Springs. He taught photojournalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Olson served as judge for Pictures of the Year; Best of Photojournalism; College Photographer of the Year; Women’s Conference on Photojournalism; and the Western Magazine Publishers Maggie Awards.

Lorraine Richey at South Santiam Hall Gallery
2021-10-14 18:00 - 19:00 | OR
Lorraine Richey, Quarantine City Art
Sept. 27 – Nov. 5, 2021
Reception: October 14th 6-7 (calendar) via Zoom
The public is invited to join at this link: https://linnbenton.zoom.us/j/97161088209
South Santiam Hall Gallery
Linn-Benton Community College
6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany, Oregon
Mon-Fri 8-5
artgallery@linnbenton.eduMasks and COVID protocols enforced.
“Quarantine City Art” represents a personal journey for Portland artist Lorraine Richey, a creative journey she undertook in the midst of the pandemic to “think how all the photographs I made would all come together and tell a tale of my COVID-dodging life.”
Among the approximately 20 images in the show are the mystical multi-layered abstractions she is best known for, as well as several overlaid with documentary depictions of the tribulations of 2020, including the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland and the wild fires in the Cascades near Detroit.
Over the past 20 months she “could not stop making images,” she said. “I was driven by what I saw around me–the beautiful, ugly and in between–seeing people help those in need during a demonstration in Portland, to speaking with others about what was going on and photographing the paintings and graffiti that exploded in the city and environs.”
Richey grew up in Detroit, Mich., and moved to Oregon in 1982– “best move I ever made,” she said. Despite eye problems since childhood that continue to limit her vision to this day, she discovered that photography helped her to see the world on her own terms. After she bought a camera in her late teens, “my art life truly began,” she said. “People would ask: ‘With those eyes how can you be a photographer?’ You only need one eye to focus, I would reply.”
She earned a BFA in photography from Oregon State University, studying under Prof. Harrison Branch, and a Masters in photography from Indiana University before moving back to Portland. Over the past several years Richey has exhibited her work in the greater Portland area, as well as in Corvallis. She is a member of the Inner Light Society of Portland and the Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild.
For further information, contact artgallery.linnbenton.edu.

Bill Haynes at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2021-10-16 11:00 - 16:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
Bill Haynes, Wet and Dry – Water Abstracts and Bodie CA.
The show will run from October 15 through November 30
There will be an all day reception on Saturday, October 16 from 11-4
Limited to 4 people at a time with masks.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste. B
Eugene, OR 97405
(541) 729-3572
Open 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Call to be sure we’re open
email: picmac1945@gmail.com
website: https://www.waltobrien.net/the-o-brien-photo-gallery.
California’s official state ghost-town is Bodie, a former gold mining town between Yosemite National Park and the Nevada border. Founded during the California gold rush and inhabited until 1942 it is preserved just as it was when it was abandoned. At the inhospitable altitude of over 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Bodie had a population of over 10,000 at its peak in about 1880. Eugene photographer Bill Haynes has captured the essence of this haunting remnant of Western history. The collection artistically displays the remaining buildings and their contents just as they existed when the last residents left.
In addition to “Bodie”, Haynes will show another smaller series entitled “Water” consisting of abstract images of water. Colorful and provocative these images challenge the imagination in a pleasant and soothing way.
https://www.photozonegallery.com/bill-haynes.

Jim Lommasson, What We Carried: Threads at PLACE Galleria
2021-11-22 08:00 - 2021-12-03 17:00 | PLACE Galleria, 735 Northwest 18th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Jim Lommasson, What We Carried: Threads
Presented by Portland TextileX Month And The Immigrant Story
Extended through December 3, 2021
Gallery hours:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10-5pm.
Viewing by appointment only and please contact at Atsuko.komoto@place.la to confirm your visit.
PLACE Galleria
735 Northwest 18th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
This holy pouch called the Bukhechick, was made by my mother in Iraq and blessed with holy water at Lalish temple. When praying, Yazidi face and kiss this holy pouch. The peacock feather represents the Yazidi Peacock Angel. Inside the Buckechick there are Barats (sphere shapes made of holy Lalish temple soil). Each one of these Barats represents certain spiritual saints in the Yazidi religion. The Barats in this particular Buckechick symbolize Yazidi Saints.
– Hammo Murad, Iraq (From “What We Carried: Yazidis of Lincoln, Nebraska”)
For Portland Textiles Month, Jim Lommasson has assembled works in which participants chose textiles to carry to their new homes in the U.S.
Jim Lommasson’s “What We Carried” photo and writing projects begin with a personal object that the participant carried with them on their long and difficult journey from their homelands to the U.S. Objects include a family photo, a bible, a Quran, a doll, dominoes, a teacup or a serving dish from family celebrations, to the clothes that they were wearing when they fled their homes.
Lommasson asks participants to allow him to photograph those few items that they were able to carry with them to the U.S. He asks the participants to write directly on the photograph about their object and why that particular item was so important that they chose it above everything else. Their stories speak of much more than “the object.” The stories are profound and speak to our common humanity. The luminous inner life of these ordinary things is a testament to the unspeakable anguish of a life left forever behind. Ordinary objects become sacred. The photo and writings become a new artifact.
Participants in Lommasson’s What We Carried projects are from Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Rwanda, Sudan, Burundi, Congo, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Lommasson has partnered with The Illinois Holocaust Museum and The Immigrant Story.
For Portland TextileX Month, Lommasson has assembled works in which participants chose textiles to carry to their new homes in the U.S.
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.

Sandy Brown Jensen at PhotoZone Gallery (online)
2021-12-01 08:00 - 2021-12-31 17:00 | OR
Sandy Brown Jensen, My Name is Journey
Featured Artist, PhotoZone Gallery
December 1 to December 31, 2021
No Reception this month due to COVID 19
https;//www.photozonegallery.com/
(541) 729-3572
In this developing portfolio, “My Name is Journey,” I am trying to express that we humans live on an aquifer of dreams, that our consciousness is more fluid than we know, that time folds and flows back on itself, that memory is the river upon which the boat of the soul drifts at the mercy of those “two or three great and simple images in whose presence my heart first opened.”
I am being pushed forward by mysterious forces from the past. Something wants to be said that hasn’t been said yet, and I am speaking for them. That is my job.
This is my effort to understand the past within the changeable weather of the present.

Greg Giesy at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2021-12-11 11:00 - 16:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
Greg Giesy, The Serendipitous Photographer
Showing from December 3 – January 13.
Artist reception on Saturday, December 11 from 11 – 4 pm
Limited to 4 at a time, masks required.
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 reserve a special time.
gallery email: picmac1945@gmail.com
gallery website: https://www.waltobrien.net/the-o-brien-photo-gallery
Have you ever seen a Cooper’s Hawk having lunch, a Green Heron catch a frog, an Otter sitting on a log eating a fish, an immature Bald Eagle sunning itself on an old snag, a Great Blue Heron nest building, or a Marsh Wren that seldom appears from the thicket singing to you in the wetlands. These are the sights Greg sees and photographs on his walks and he will share all these wonderful things with you in his new exhibit.
Most people assume that a photographer waits for something to happen with all the patience in the world and there are nature photographers that do, but Greg wanders always looking for the tree, the insect, the mushroom, the bird, the flower that he thinks will take a great photograph.
Greg, an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, may argue over the word, accidental, if you are out looking for photo options is it an accident that you find good photo opportunities? He would probably say it was the gift to find surprises that can turn into amazing pictures.
The best example this year of an amazing surprise was being on the pedestrian & bike bridge over the Willamette River at Valley River and seeing the diving waterfowl, Common Mergansers, swimming towards the bridge. Female and immature Common Mergansers have a burnt orange head with feathers flaring out behind and a long thin orange beak. An interesting bird to look at but these diving birds arch their back and are gone under the water. This time though Greg was in the right place on a sunny day with clear water so that he could see and photograph down through the water as the Mergansers swam acrobatically under the water to catch fish.
https://greggiesy.zenfolio.com

Jim Lommasson & The Immigrant Story at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
2021-12-12 11:00 - 2022-05-15 16:00 | Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Jim Lommasson & The Immigrant Story, To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives

December 12, 2021 – May 15th 2022
Museum hours: Wednesday – Saturday: 11am – 4pm
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
724 NW Davis Street
Portland, OR 97209
Phone: 503.226.3600
Masks are currently required in the museum.
Museum Admission
Adults: $8
Students & Seniors: $5
Members: Free
Children under 12: Free
To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives features photographs, profiles, and short films that capture the stories of individuals who left their homelands for safe haven in Oregon. These brave men and women, born in places as far-flung as Austria, Bosnia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Germany, Hungary, Rwanda, Sudan, Syria, and Tibet, witnessed the atrocities of war, genocide, and the Holocaust. Each profile reveals the resilience of the survivor and the generosity of the many who provided assistance along the way.
The exhibition is a partnership between OJMCHE and The Immigrant Story, in collaboration with Jim Lommasson and NW Documentary, and presents a multimedia exhibition focused on the lives of these 14 refugees.
Founded in 2017 by Sankar Raman, who immigrated to the U.S. from India, The Immigrant Story is a volunteer-run nonprofit with a mission to foster empathy and build a more inclusive community by sharing stories of immigrants and refugees who often overcame tremendous odds to reach the United States. Sankar, who has experienced violent, racially-motivated attacks, founded The Immigrant Story in response to a Kansas shooting in February 2017 that killed one Indian American man and injured two others.
The Immigrant Story has collaborated with Portland photographer Jim Lommasson, building upon his project, Stories of Survival, originally produced in collaboration with the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. His work focuses on objects survivors were able to carry with them on their perilous journeys. From his photographs of the objects, the participants respond with handwritten testimonies — stories, memories, poems, drawings. Their stories speak to the luminous inner life of these ordinary things and testify to the unspeakable anguish of lives forever left behind.
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.

Michael Z Taylor at the Don Dexter Gallery
2022-01-09 08:00 - 2022-03-30 17:00 | Don Dexter Gallery, 2233 Willamette Street Ste. B, Eugene, OR, United States
Michael Z Taylor, The Willfulness Of Being (Life Aware of Itself)

January 4th to March 30th, 2022
Don Dexter Gallery
2233 Willamette Street Ste. B Eugene, Oregon
541-485-6644
M-F 8am to 5pm, closed alternating Mondays and Fridays
media@drdexter.com
https://art.drdexter.com/
The Willfulness of Being (Life Aware of Itself)
I don’t talk to my house plants or play for them a Fiscella piano composition. That would presume an aging Philodendron can be reflective as an old man facing his end. But as I wander through the quiet muse of a redwood grove or observe the blanket of canopy embracing an old bridge, I find myself sharing with them an awareness: That we are each of us a life possessed, one brief moment trailing in the sweep of infinite time and space.
These photographs, a work in progress, are about more than seeing a tree or a leaf. They are about seeing ourselves, in connection with the world around us. They are portraits; profiles of community, of family, of souls wrapped in the fleeting grace of being.
And I believe they are aware of that single moment they inhabit, as we, too, should be. And that in each of these images there exists a willfulness of being – a life aware of itself.
mztphotography@comcast.net
Mztphotography.com

PhotoArts Guild at Umpqua Valley Arts Center
2022-01-21 10:00 - 2022-03-05 18:00 | Umpqua Valley Arts Center, 1624 W. Harvard Ave., Roseburg, OR, 97471, United States
PhotoArts Guild, Finding the Light: On the Road
Jan. 21 – March 5, 2022
Umpqua Valley Arts Center
1624 W. Harvard Ave., Roseburg, Oregon 97471
Tues – Fri 10am – 6pm
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541-672-2523

The Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild is taking its 12th biennial exhibit, “Finding the Light,” on the road to the Umpqua Valley Arts Center in Roseburg.
An abridged edition of the guild’s 80-print exhibit last fall at Oregon State University, the UVA show features 21 photographs that interpret the opening lines of Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s 2021 Presidential Inauguration poem:
When day comes we ask ourselves where can we find light in the never-ending shade?
The color and black-and-white photographs in the show depict light in its myriad forms–on the landscape, in the heavens, along city streets, and in the dark of night; as well as inside ancient churches, abandoned buildings and within the minds of the artist.
The Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild was formed more than 30 years ago to promote and support fine art photography in the mid-valley and has been an affiliated guild of the Corvallis Art Center since 1988.

Michel Strain at The O'Brien Photo Gallery
2022-01-22 11:00 - 16:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
Michael Strain, Infrastructure

January 18 through February 28
The reception will be on Saturday, January 22 from 11-4 pm
Limited to 4 people at a time. Masks Required.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste. B
Eugene, OR. 97405
(541) 729-3572
Open Monday – Friday from 1-5 pm
Call first to be sure we’re open
email:picmac1945@gmail.com
website: https://www.waltobrien.net/the-o-brien-photo-gallery
These images are abstracts from our built environment “infrastructure” featuring the likes of utility meters, parking stripes, manhole covers, and car bumpers in their utilitarian and/or incidental surroundings.
The viewer is invited to consider the objects in the photograph as compositional elements… rather than being the subject of the photograph per se. In my approach the intended subject is the composition itself, comprised of the geometrical, texture, color relationships, and cultural associations of the various objects. The photograph is an “abstract” or sample witnessed from a particular point of view.
These photographs were taken locally with an iPhone 6s in the Eugene Willamette Street Corridor and on trips to Montana, Guatemala, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Growing up in Montana, I was first introduced to photography and darkroom work by my grandmother when I was about age eight. In college I managed the darkroom in my dorm while narrowly missing the popular photography courses taught at MIT by Minor White. In the mid-1970’s I began working with large format cameras and produced a series of one-of-a-kind 8×10 color Polaroid images taken with a home-built view camera. Having recently retired as an instrumentation scientist at the University of Oregon, I have renewed my photographic efforts, but now using an iPhone as my primary tool. The phone is kind of like a miniature view camera with a wide-angle lens. It is appealing because of its small, inconspicuous size making it perfect for international travel and spontaneity. Modern ink-jet printers capture the crisp, brilliant colors that drew me to the color Polaroid medium of days gone by.
https://www.photozonegallery.com/michael-strain

Depth of Field: Selections from the Bill Rhoades Collection of Northwest Photography at Hallie Ford Museum of Art
2022-01-23 08:00 - 2022-04-23 17:00 | Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State St, Salem, OR, 97301, United States
Depth of Field: Selections from the Bill Rhoades Collection of Northwest Photography
January 4 – April 23, 2022
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
700 State St
Salem, OR 97301
https://willamette.edu/arts/hfma/index.html
For the past twenty-four years, collector Bill Rhoades of Madras, Oregon, has donated hundreds of examples of Northwest art to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, including paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, and Native American art. In recent years, Rhoades has turned his attention almost exclusively to photography. Organized by curator Jonathan Bucci in collaboration with Rhoades, the exhibition presents a range of Northwest photographs donated to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art by the collector.
The photography focus within the museum’s Bill Rhoades Collection has grown extensively in recent years and explores the history of Northwest Photography through some of the most significant regional photographers and photo groups of the past one hundred years. The early art photography movement had important contributors in the Pacific Northwest, including Edward Curtis and Imogen Cunningham in Washington, both represented in this exhibition, and Myra Wiggins and Lily White in Oregon. The exhibition also includes work by photographers from the Farm Security Administration (a 1930s WPA-era federal project that included Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Minor White, among others), the Advanced Interim Workshop (a Portland based group led by Minor White that began in 1959), Blue Sky Gallery (founded in 1975 as a venue for the newest ideas in contemporary photography), and the Portland Photographic Workshop (a group formed in 1982 by Stu Levy and Stewart Harvey to improve craft and aesthetics). In addition to photographers who fit into this historical framework, the collection holds work by other influential photographers such as Mary Randlett, Michael Kenna, and Robert Adams, as well as a range of contemporary photographers from the Northwest.
The following photographers’ work is included in the show:
• Robert Adams
• Max Allara
• Ray Atkeson
• Mick Briscoe
• Marsha Burns
• Jeffrey Conley
• Imogen Cunningham
• Edward Curtis
• Peter de Lory
• Roger Dorband
• William Galen
• Joan Gentry
• Eddie Greenly
• Stewart Harvey
• Craig Hickman
• Cherie Hiser
• Aaron Johanson
• Edis Jurcys
• Joni Kabana
• Ann Kendellen
• Michael Kenna
• Don Kirby
• Marian Wood Kolisch
• Dorothea Lange Russell Lee
• Stu Levy
• Fritz Liedtke
• Jim Lommasson
• Robert B. Miller
• Al Monner
• Loren Nelson
• Mary Randlett
• Chris Rauschenberg
• Ron Reeder
• Bill Rhoades
• Gerald Robinson
• Arnold Rustin
• Terry Thompson
• Terry Toedtemeier
• Brett Weston
• Minor White
• Shedrich Williams
• John Wimberley
• Huntington Witherill
As a special feature, the exhibition will be accompanied by a brochure with an essay on Rhoades and the collection by professor emeritus of art history Roger Hull.
For more information, visit the museum’s website: https://willamette.edu/arts/hfma/exhibitions/library/2021-22/depth-of-field.html

Agnès Varda – Faces Places at NewZone Gallery
2022-01-28 18:30 - 21:30 | New Zone Gallery, 110 E 11th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Photography At Oregon presents: Agnès Varda – Faces Places
January 28, 2022 6:30 doors open; movie starts 7:00pm
NewZone Gallery
110 East 11th Ave
Eugene, Oregon
541-686-1240
photographyatoregon@comcast.net
www.photographyatoregon.org
Free to the public; donations accepted
Agnès Varda, who was born in Belgium in 1928s and died in Paris in 2019, was one of the leading figures of the French New Wave. She was a student at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre and later became a photographer and film maker. Her first film, La Pointe was shot in a distinct visual style with a documentary feel, alternating between two narratives: a young couple examining their troubled marriage and a fishing village dealing with its collective problems. Varda’s still photography sometimes inspired her subsequent motion pictures. She maintained a fluid interrelationship between photographic and cinematic forms: “I take photographs, or I make films,” she said. “Or I put films in the photos, or photos in the films.”
Faces Places (2017)
In 2017, Varda co-directed Faces Places with the artist JR (the pseudonym of a French photographer and street artist whose identity is unconfirmed). They teamed up to co-direct this enchanting documentary/road movie.
It follows Varda and JR traveling around rural France, creating portraits of the people they come across. Varda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for this film, making her the oldest person to be nominated for a competitive Oscar. Although the nomination was her first, Varda did not regard it as important, stating: “There is nothing to be proud of, but happy. Happy because we make films to love. We make films so that you love the film.”
Taken from Britannica and Wikipedia

Eugene Darkroom Group at The Dot Dotson’s Gallery
2022-02-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Dot Dotson’s, 1668 Willamette, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Eugene Darkroom Group, Same Difference
2022 Annual Membership Show
The show will run from February 3 through February 28
There will be an opening reception on Friday February 4 from 4-6 pm.
The Dot Dotson’s Gallery
1668 Willamette St, Eugene, OR 97401
541-485-1771
Open Monday – Friday from 12-5
dotdotsons.com
Same Difference marks the 2022 iteration of Eugene Darkroom Group’s annual member’s show. In this body of work, member artists were encouraged to reflect on the idiomatic concept of “Same Difference” and the many ways that this phrase can be interpreted and expressed. Though all artists were restricted to use the same paper and silver gelatin medium, the prompt challenges photographers to look for difference wherever it lies and interpret the ways that these differences manifest against the sameness of the final presented forms in the show. In doing so, the individual pieces combine to form a conceptual exploration both on the nature of uniqueness in art and also the idea of persistence of self during times of extreme change.
Eugene Darkroom Group is a 501(c)(3) non-profit in Eugene, Oregon, dedicated to preserving and promoting film photography. They are committed to revitalizing the medium by investing in the photographic talent of the people in the Eugene area. They provide a thoroughly equipped darkroom for film photographers and accessible education about the medium to the community.
Eugene Darkroom Group’s community darkroom and education program are located at Maude Kerns Art Center. Learn more about the group, membership, classes, open darkroom hours, and more at EUGdarkroom.org
https://www.eugdarkroom.org.
