Todd Johnson in the Pushdot Studio Gallery
2023-02-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Todd Johnson, Meditations
Feb 3rd, 2023 – March 31st, 2023
Opening Reception: Feb 3rd, 2023 6-8pm
Pushdot Studio
2505 SE 11th Avenue
Suite 104 – in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street
Portland, OR 97202
503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm
Free admission
Meditations is a series of pictures about experiencing and celebrating the visual language of photography. The work is focused on abstraction and uses a traditional structure of still life. The work is inspired by artistic practices such as painting and sculpture, design and architecture. Other influences come from the history of avant-garde art such as Futurism and Surrealism, Modernism and Minimalism. The philosophy of Meditations is a concept of going deeper into creativity and spiritual ritual.
Todd Johnson is a conceptual and experimental photographer living and working in Portland, Oregon. Johnson received his MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Todd is the founder and director of Black Box Gallery.
www.toddjohnson.info

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deb Stoner in the Pushdot Studio Gallery
2023-04-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Deb Stoner, A Closer Look
April 7th, 2023 – May 26th, 2023
Opening Reception: April 7th, 2023 6-8pm
PUSHDOT STUDIO
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street
Portland, OR 97202
503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
Deb Stoner is an American artist, born in 1957. Deb received a BS in Geology from University of California at Davis, and her MFA from San Diego State University. She taught jewelry and metalsmithing classes at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon for over twenty years, and is known for creating innovative approaches to making handmade eyewear through material and design research. She taught over fifty workshops on these techniques at craft-based schools and universities, and lectured widely at symposia and conferences. Deb served on the Board of Trustees at the Haystack School from 2001-2010.
Deb’s work in photography followed similar craft informed investigations that continue to yield innovative work. From early work in black and white in the 1970’s through experimental work in graduate school and while teaching at OCAC, Deb’s radar always included a lookout for darkroom access. While learning about wet plate techniques, a chance demo on the use of a flatbed scanner to create digital negatives caught her imagination, leading to an obsession with making complex still life images of the flora and tiny fauna of the gardens in her neighborhood. A recent commission by the Oregon State Treasury Resiliency Building brought her curiosity to investigate the endangered Fender’s Blue Butterfly with its nectar and food sources. And although her commission to wrap the exterior of a building, the Palos Verdes Art Center, resulted in the very largest scale work she’s ever done, most people’s introduction to Deb’s work is on their way through the Portland International Airport whose permanent collection includes twelve of her works from “A Year in the Willamette Valley”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phil Harris in the Pushdot Studio Gallery
2023-06-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Phil Harris, Duration
June 1st, 2023 – July 28th, 2023
Opening Reception/Artist Talk: June 1st, 2023 6-8pm
PUSHDOT STUDIO
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street
Portland, OR 97202
503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission

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

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

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

Rachel Wolf at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2023-06-12 08:00 - 2023-07-06 17:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Rachel Wolf, Just a Friendly Reminder That You’re Awesome: A Camera-less Odyssey
Now – July 6, 2023
LightBox Photographic
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, OR 97103
503.468.0238
info@lightbox-photographic.com
Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5:00pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery opens “Just a Friendly Reminder That You’re Awesome: A Camera-less Odyssey” Rachel Wolf on Saturday, June 10 with an opening artists reception from 4 — 7 p.m. Rachel is a member of The Guild at LightBox and her passion is in creating photographic art without the use of a camera.
“I create my work without a camera. I describe my work as liminagraphy – an exploration of the essence of the photographic process that consists of standing at the threshold and turning light into matter. Through the use of various photographic processes and materials, I transform the ephemeral nature of light into something that can be held, examined, and appreciated as a physical artifact.
Working in my darkroom, I am directly exposing photographic materials, paper and ﬁlm, to various objects, light and chemicals. Creating in this way I am able to bypass the limitations of traditional photography and the constraints of a camera. I fully immerse myself in the photographic process, engaging in a more direct and intimate dialogue with the materials themselves.
For me, the act of turning light into matter is a powerful statement on the relationship between perception and reality. By taking something intangible, fleeting, and transforming it into a physical object, I am inviting viewers to engage with the building blocks of our visual experience in a more tactile, visceral way. By releasing our expectations of how a photograph is created and the resulting image, we are invited to consider what a photograph is.
~ Rachel Wolf
The exhibit runs from June 10 through July 6, 2023. Complete show info is on the LightBox website at http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or info@lightboxphotographic.com. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, hours are Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5:00pm.

Shane Balkowitsch at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2023-06-12 08:00 - 2023-07-06 17:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Shane Balkowitsch, Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective
Now – July 6, 2023
LightBox Photographic
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, OR 97103
503.468.0238
info@lightbox-photographic.com
Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5:00pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery opens “Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective” by Shane Balkowitsch on Saturday, June 10 with an opening artists reception from 4 — 7 p.m. LightBox is extremely honored to present this work. We have admired this work for years and now have the honor of exhibiting twenty fine reproductions of the original Collodion Wet Plates. The prints are beautiful custom carbon pigment prints crafted in the Netherlands by master printer Luc Brefeld.
“Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective” is by far my most important work. My life’s work. My goal is to capture 1000 Native Americans over the 20 years. I have met so many fabulous people on this journey and I am forming bonds and friendships that will last me throughout my life. It is important for me to not only document their heritage but to give respect to a people that that have been mistreated in so many ways. I consider this an honor and I will do everything that I can to put my friends in the best possible light.
~ Shane Balkowitsch
The exhibit runs from June 10 through July 6, 2023. Complete show info is on the LightBox website at http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or info@lightboxphotographic.com. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, hours are Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5:00pm.

Michael Kenna at PLACE Galeria
2023-06-12 10:00 - 2023-07-14 18:00 | PLACE Galleria, 735 Northwest 18th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Michael Kenna, 50 Trees
Now – July 14th, 2023
10 am – 6 pm M – F
4 – 6 PM on Thursdays
Place
735 NW 18th Avenue
Portland OR 97209
503 334 2080

Randall Tosh, In/dwelling
2023-06-15 17:00 - 19:00 | The Arts Center, 700 SW Madison Ave., Corvallis, OR, 97333, United States
Randall Tosh, In/dwelling
May 30, 2023 – July 1, 2023
Opening Reception and Demo, June 15, 5-7pm
The Arts Center
700 SW Madison Ave.
Corvallis, OR 97333
541-754-1551
www.theartscenter.net
Gallery Hours – Tue-Sat 12-5pm
Oregon photographer Randall Tosh will present a free wet-plate demonstration at The Arts Center in Corvallis on Wednesday June 15 in conjunction with his exhibit now on view in TAC’s Corrine Woodman Gallery.
The demo will begin at 5pm and precede the reception. RSVP for the demo by emailing Jennie Castle at curator@theartscenter.net by Monday, June 12, 2023.
Tosh’s exhibit, “In/dwelling,” deals with his fascination with the strangeness of the natural world–in this case shells. The ephemeral qualities of wet-plate photography seem to be well-suited to this subject matter and to this particular moment in history, when the natural world is under the ever-present threat of destruction.
Wet plate photography is one of the many alternative processes currently being used by photographers working in the analogue tradition. These processes were rediscovered by photographers over the past three decades, and are prized by those photographers for their beauty and experimental quality. The process of making a wet plate photograph is labor intensive and involves creating, sensitizing, exposing, and developing the plate while the plate is still wet from the sensitizing bath, about 30 minutes per image. The resulting images have a delicate, haunting quality, that evokes the passage of time.

PhotoZone Gallery's 33rd Annual Juried Show Call for Entries
2023-07-01 23:30 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
PhotoZone Gallery’s 33rd Annual Juried Show Call for Entries
Entries will be accepted:
Saturday, July 1st and Sunday, July 2nd
between the hours of 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. each day

Exhibit: July 5th through July 28th, 2023.
There will be an opening reception July 14th from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Emerald Art Center
500 Main St, Springfield Oregon, 97477
(541) 726-8595
Tues-Sat 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Second Fridays until 7:30 p.m.
photozonegalleryoregon@gmail.com
PhotoZoneGallery.org

Two prints per entrant are permitted. One for $15, two for $25.
There are cash prizes: $500 for first, $300 for second, $150 for third plus prizes from sponsors

The LightBox Members Summer Showcase 2023
2023-07-08 16:00 - 19:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
The LightBox Members Summer Showcase 2023
July 8 – August 10, 2023
Reception: July 8th, 4-7pm
LightBox Photographic
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, OR 97103
503.468.0238
info@lightbox-photographic.com
Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5:00pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery opens The LightBox Members Summer Showcase on Saturday, July 8 with an opening artists reception from 4 – 7 p.m. LightBox features and honors its members, those who stand with the gallery and its mission to further the understanding of the photographic arts through exhibition, education and community building. We will feature the work of 48 of our members, those who make it all happen.
Please join us for the opening artists reception from 4 -7 pm on Saturday, July 8th.
Congrats! and thank you to our members exhibiting in 2023
John Albers-Mead • Jane Alynn • Rich Bergeman • Jason Biehner • Sam Blair • Larry Bullis
Ronald Butler • Cecily Mariece Caceu • Pamela Chipman • Eli Cipher • Martha Clarkson
Jim Congleton • Paul Cunningham • Terry Donnelly • Roger Dorband • Walt Duddington
Kathryn Elsesser • Jim Fitzgerald • Daniel Gerth • Steven Goldberg • Eddie Greenley
Ed Hamilton • Dave Hanson • Joni Kabana • Bill Kirby • Richard Kohler • Stu Levy
David McCrae • Donald MacDonald • Marc McVey • Jody Miller • Julie Moore • Loren Nelson
Walt O’Brien • Gail Overstreet • Michael Puff • Kathy Radie • Matt Ragen • Lorraine Richey
Denise Ross • Gretta Siegel • Darcie Sternenberg • Geoff Stone • Michelle Swanson
Terry Thompson • Randall Tosh • Chris Villiers • George Willse • Rachel Wolf

The PhotoZone Gallery presents its 33rd Annual Juried Show
2023-07-14 17:00 - 19:30 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
The PhotoZone Gallery presents its 33rd Annual Juried Show
July 5th through July 28th.
Opening reception July 14th from 5 to 7:30 p.m (calendar)
Emerald Art Center
500 Main St
Springfield, OR.
541 726-8595
https://www.emeraldartcenter.org
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Entry by donation
The PhotoZone Gallery presents the annual juried show as a public service to photographers working in any photographic medium. A jury of PhotoZone members chooses approximately 60 framed photographs from over 120 photographs submitted. An opportunity to have one’s photographs hung in a professional gallery is an incentive to participate. In addition, cash awards of $1,100 to the top four winners and many other prizes awarded by business sponsors, adds to the equation.
For more information and to see work by the Photozone members go to our website. photozonegallery.com

Photo Float 2023 with Andy Batt
2023-07-15 - 2023-07-22 | OR
Photo Float 2023
with Andy Batt
July 15-22, 2023 (8 days & 7 nights)
Green River, Utah
Departs from the airfield in Green River, UT, on July 15th
Oct 1 – Dec 31: 20% off at $2560 (plus tax & fees)
Inquiries: info@canyonphotofloat.com
Details and Booking: canyonphotofloat.com
Newsletter: photofloat.substack.com
Andy Batt is leading Photo Float 2023, a landscape photography workshop floating down the Green River, Utah.
Most of us need a creative “reset” once in a while, and this trip has what you need: a chance to do something new and a way to switch up your regular day-to-day. It’s a landscape photography workshop emphasizing creative growth and inspiration for any kind of photographer.
Our float happens over eight days (seven nights). We float down the wild and scenic Green River in Utah through Desolation and Gray Canyons. Every night we camp under desert skies, far from any lights. The river runs through 66 miles of a designated wilderness area. No cars. No buildings, streets, or fast food restaurants. You’re surrounded by the beautiful solitude of the desert. We head downstream, cameras in hand, witnessing miles and miles of stunning canyons and desert landscapes.
The value of this workshop is incredible: small class size, fantastic food, camping under the desert skies, 1:1 guidance from Andy, professional river guides, and all on-river logistics are taken care of.
Our workshop is open to any artist that loves the art of the landscape — Andy will be talking about photography, but all image makers are welcome. If you’re a painter, illustrator, or other visual artist, he would love to have you along.
Andy Batt is a commercial photographer with over 20 years of experience working for advertising agencies, magazines, and Fortune 500 clients. Over that time, he’s nurtured a love of landscape photography as a means of visual meditation.
TESTIMONIALS:
“This trip, these classes, and the people I met inspired me to pick up my camera and do what I should have done a long time ago – shoot for myself. I came back from the trip with a new portfolio, new friends, and most importantly, a new love for the craft.” —Paul Wood, professional photographer
“On this trip, I felt reconnected with the reasons I started photographing in the first place. With Andy’s prompts and image reviews, I made photographs that feel freer and more unconstrained than any I’ve made in years. Being so remote, surrounded by great people, and free of modern responsibilities was soul-cleansing. I’d recommend it to anyone artistically stuck.” –Zac Goodwin, fine art photographer

Photographing Wildflowers In the Field workshop with Don Jacobson
2023-07-21 08:00 - 2023-07-23 17:00 | OR
Don Jacobson workshop, Photographing Wildflowers In the Field
Fri – Sun, July 21 – 23, 2023
Mt. Hood
and
Oregon Society of Artists
2185 S.W. Park Place
Portland, Oregon 97205
503-228-0706
info@osartists.org
$295.00 ($335.00 non-members)
https://canvas.osartists.org/classes/799
Don Jacobson is leading a “Photographing Wildflowers In the Field” workshop through the Oregon Society of Artists (OSA). The workshop will also be useful for techniques to photograph mid day. It takes place Friday evening July 21 for a lecture and slide show, all day photographing on Saturday July 22, near Mt. Hood and Sunday afternoon July 23 critiquing our Saturday photographs. Enrollment is limited to 12.
Email or call OSA or Don if you have any questions.
Don Jacobson
donjphoto@gmail.com
503 808 7525
www.donjacobsonphoto.com

Solar Filter Workshops
2023-07-22 09:00 - 2023-10-07 11:00 | Oregon State University, 220 SW 26th St., Corvallis, OR, 97333, United States
Solar Filter Workshops
July 22, Aug. 12, Sept. 23, Oct. 7
Workshops take place on Saturdays from 9am – 11am and are limited to 24 people.
Oregon State University
Fairbanks Hall, Rm 227
220 SW 26th St.
Corvallis, Oregon 97333
art@oregonstate.edu
Free
Make a solar filter and learn how to photograph the sun in preparation for the Annular Solar Eclipse that will take place on October 14th this year. OSU faculty members Randall Milstein (Physics), Julia Bradshaw (Photography) and Tom Carrico (Astro-photographer and member of the Heart of the Valley Astronomy club) will conduct the workshop. You will learn about eclipses, make a solar filter, and receive instruction on how to photograph the annular eclipse.
Workshops take place on Saturdays from 9am – 11am and are limited to 24 people. Workshops are open to students and community members. Bring a camera, ideally one with manual controls, and a tripod if you have one. However, we will work with whatever camera you have. All other materials will be provided. No prior skill is needed. All are welcome.
SIGN UP LINK:
https://oregonstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2fToTwkIasZ1hWK

Erinn Kathryn, Lands of Enchantment at Pushdot Studio Gallery
2023-08-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Erinn Kathryn, Lands of Enchantment
August 4th, 2023 – Sept 29th, 2023
Opening Reception/Artist Talk: Aug 4th, 2023 6-8pm
PUSHDOT STUDIO
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street
Portland, OR 97202
503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
Lands of Enchantment (2019-present), challenges the glossy, picturesque mirages of America found on postcards of the 20th century.
Postcards are talismans of tourism. They memorialize ones experience in a place. They idealize the place itself. But what if they revealed truths? In these dioramas, the idyllic postcard imagery is obscured by truths: black text listing the indigenous tribes who have stewardship over the land (https://native-land.ca/) and red text revealing an unspoken truth about the condition of that land. These overlays elucidate the cost of progress. Viewers toggle between fore, middle, and background– future, present, past– as text casts shadows on the postcard imagery, indicating that layers are coexistent.

The Analog Forever Exhibit at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2023-08-12 16:00 - 19:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
The Analog Forever Exhibit
August 12 – October 11, 2023
Opening Saturday, August 12, 4 – 7 pm
Please join us for the artists opening reception on Saturday, August 12 from 4 -7 pm
LightBox Photographic
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, OR 97103
503.468.0238
info@lightbox-photographic.com
At the dawn of photography our hopes and sights were set on finding the science that would allow us to produce an image with light and to display the latent image. It was the inquisitive scientific mind, the human hand and creative ideas that furthered the Art of Photography. In the world of today current photographic technology and past process discoveries are merging and we see creative photographic works that use both modern resources and the touch of the human hand with historical photographic processes.
LightBox Photographic Gallery and Analog Forever Magazine have forged a partnership with The Analog Forever Exhibit. We wish to celebrate the lessons we have learned, the processes we have discovered and the paths we have forged in the Inaugural Analog Forever Gallery Exhibit. The work in this exhibit all includes an analog element of photographic means. It can start in an analog manner or medium or it may include any of the same throughout the process, or just the final piece may be a analog photographic print. There must be at least one analog element in the creative process. Our hope for the exhibition is that stirs the soul and the senses.
Congratulations to the Photographers accepted into The Analog Forever Exhibit
Rüdiger Beckmann • Tom Trusty • Eric McCollum • Sarah Grew
Dave Levingston • Leah Macdonald • Megan Bent • Max Hinz
Jessica Somers • Bridget Conn • Donald MacDonald • Luna Hao
Tracy Longley-Cook • Sally Chapman • David White • Liz Potter
Ronald Butler • Margaret Kaufmann • Vanessa Powell • Matt Ragen
Virgil DiBiase • Harley Cowan • Geof Stone • Kathryn Elsesser
Amee Ellis • Nicolas Woltersdorf • Allan Barnes • Aiden Avery
Izabella Cookson • Liz Potter • Loren Nelson • Kate Copeland
Juror: Michael Kirchoff – Editor in Chief of Analog Forever Magazine

Loren Nelson at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2023-08-12 16:00 - 19:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Loren Nelson, Wasteland
August 12 – September 6, 2023
Artist opening reception on Saturday, August 12 from 4 -7 pm
LightBox Photographic
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, OR 97103
503.468.0238
info@lightbox-photographic.com
Human beings aren’t very good at recycling plastic. About 5% was recovered in 2021, down from 9% in 2014. Another 12% was incinerated in waste-to-energy facilities, and the rest ended up in landfills, rivers, and oceans. When I read that plastic fibers were found at the 27,000-foot level on Mount Everest, I imagined the view when climate change has melted the glaciers and mountain snowpack, leaving a thin layer of plastic.
These glowing, plastic-draped landscapes suggest snow-capped mountain ranges, but are actually erosion control measures. They show how plastic surrounds us, literally, and will threaten life on earth for generations.
Side note: The Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps has been covered with massive blankets during the warmer months for several years, which has reduced glacial melting by as much as 50%. Another example of art imitating life!
These photographs were made with a Nikon D700 digital camera and an iPhone 8+, processed in Photoshop, and printed on Moab Juniper Fine-Art paper using archival pigment inks.
