Luke Olsen Photography

Donald Myers at PhotoZone Gallery
2021-03-05 17:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barbara Harrison at PhotoZone Gallery (online this month)
2021-06-01 08:00 - 2021-06-29 17:00 | PhotoZone Gallery, 22 West 7th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Barbara Harrison, Patterns of Illumination
June 1 to June 29, 2021
PhotoZone Gallery
https://www.photozonegallery.com/
Online for the month of June
As a visual artist, Barbara Harrison wanders the environs, eyes in motion – delving into textures, patterns, colors, and lines painted by light; expanding the view a scene presents by altering perspective. Exploring Patterns of Illumination, the observer has a chance to visualize the possibilities, rather than what is.
Barbara’s love of the outdoors developed when she was a little girl. The need to be outside has never left her and is very much a part of the photographic subject she pursues. She was drawn into photography by her first partner whose main interest was nature and wildlife. Together they spent summers traveling the US and Canada, photographing in national parks and preserves. Barbara has stood in the middle of a big horn sheep rut and had pronghorn run right by her. A desert tortoise came up and smelled her in Joshua Tree. In Alaska, she was privileged to be in the presence of a young male grizzly positioned against a backdrop of mountains who slept through the whole experience. Barbara treasures these moments that have given her the privilege of being accepted by wildlife and a challenge to photograph and explore.
Today, you will find Barbara wandering the environs with her camera trying to reimagine the everyday that people don’t seem to notice and present the subject in a light that may catch their attention.
Barbara holds Master’s Degrees in Film and Video and in Community Change and Civic Leadership focused on environmental justice. She is a Medicare for All activist and is especially interested in reaching out to marginalized communities, particularly rural working-class utilizing a storytelling format. She has developed a workshop to achieve this goal and to address moral questions that cross class, ethnic, and cultural lines.
In producing her film, Speaking Out for Health Care for Everyone, which won two Pegasus Awards, Barbara videotaped and edited individuals’ stories regarding experiences using the health system and the need for single-payer healthcare.
Barbara also produced Michael Milligan’s play Mercy Killers. According to Hagop M. Kantarjian, M.D., who is chairman of the Department of Leukemia, Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, “It is an account of the consequences of a medical catastrophe in a family: loss of insurance and home; divorcing a loved one to benefit from indigent care; loss of dignity and moral compass; and most importantly, loss of a precious life.”
She currently has a children’s counting book under contract and is working on instructions for the illustrator.
For more photographs, please visit barbaracharrison.com and Instagram bcharrison0921
For inquiries or purchasing request, please call 607 279 6429 or by email: bcharrison0921@gmail.com

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

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.
