"The Sacred" group show at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2018-08-11 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
The Sacred
August 11th – September 5th, 2018
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, August 11th, 5-8pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery
1045 Marine Dr.
Astoria, OR 97103
(503) 468-0238
lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery will host the artists’ opening reception for “The Sacred” on Saturday, August 11th, from 5-8 pm. “The Sacred” is a juried exhibit that attracted submissions by more than 165 photographers from around the world. Fifty-two photographers were selected by the juror, world renown photographer Robert Adams, of Astoria.
Congratulations to the Photographers of The Sacred
Yuri Ozaki • Lucas DeShazer • Christoph Kapeller • Nancy Abens
Kidus T. Tesfaye • Michael Kirchoff • Charlotte Watts • Ronald Butler
Nikolaj Callesen • Tomomi Tamura • Kerry Davis • Pam Golden
Friderike Heuer • Stuart Allen Levy • Don Norris • John Eaton
Jan Becket • Ken Hochfeld • Jim Fitzgerald • Kent Krugh
Jeno Lehel • Ed Greenly • M.C. Reardon • Tom Caples
Jason Guffey • Phil Coleman • Heather Binns • Rich Rollins
Barbara Rothman • Steve Delph • J.P. Terlizzi • Joseph Deiss
Herman Krieger • Dennis Witner •Diana Welch • Susan Huber
Jordan VanSise • Kier Selinsky • David Rowe • Jody Miller
Calvin Chen • Walt O’Brien • Eric Lundgard • Pete Karnig
Michael Elenko • George Johnson • Deborah Jaques • Isaac Sachs
Stewart Harvey • Mason Hiatt • Bob Gervais • Paul Cunningham
“The photographer Dorothea Lange said that she wanted to make pictures that are “second lookers” – pictures that reward repeated viewings. It has been my privilege to assemble an exhibition made up of such photographs. The pictures record what is “entitled to reverence,” as the dictionary defines the word “sacred” – times and places and people that point beyond themselves. We stand today in particular need of such testaments. I was asked to select a few of the photographs for “honorable mention,” but this seems unnecessary. As is apparent, the photographers brought honor to themselves by first selflessly honoring their subjects.”
~ Robert Adams
Robert Adams was born in New Jersey in 1937, and moved to Colorado as a teenager. Adams was a professor of English literature for several years before turning his full attention to photography in the mid 1970s. His work is largely concerned with moments of regional transition: the suburbanization of Denver, a changing Los Angeles of the 1970s and 1980s, and the clear-cutting in Oregon in the 1990s. His many books, well-known to those concerned with the American Landscape, include The New West, From the Missouri West, Summer Nights, Los Angeles Spring, To Make It Home, Listening to the River, West From the Columbia, What We Bought, Notes for Friends, California, Summer Nights, Walking, Gone?, What Can We Believe Where? and The Place We Live. Adams has also written a number of critical essays, including Beauty in Photography, Why People Photograph and most recently, Art Can Help. Among many awards, Adams has received the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation fellowships and in 2006, the Deutsche Börse Prize. In 2009, he was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, and in 2014 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
“The Sacred” will be on display in the gallery through September 5th. Please visit the gallery during the month to see the collection of work. Complete show info is on the LightBox website at http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/. LightBox memberships are a way to become part of the community that helps to further the mission of the gallery. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or info@lightboxphotographic.com. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11 – 5:30.

Anne Berry at the Portland Art Museum
2018-08-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Anne Berry, Working on Long Term Projects
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’s
Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 (calendar)
Portland Art Museum
The Miller Room, Mark Building
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
www.portlandartmuseum.org
503 226 2811
Cost: Free to the public.
Anne will discuss her animal portraiture photography, especially work from her long-term project, Behind Glass. Anne will also talk about the subsequent struggle to find inspiration and create new work with a consistent voice. She will share some of her polymer photogravures and present work from her new series April is the Cruelest Month.
Anne Berry is an artist from Atlanta, Georgia. She is best known for photographs of children and animals that capture the enchantment and power of the natural world.
In 2013 and 2014 Critical Mass included her work in their Top 50 Portfolios. Anne has had solo exhibitions at the Centre for Visual and Performing Arts in Newnan, GA, The Lamar Dodd Art Center in LaGrange, GA and The Rankin Arts Center in Columbus, GA. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, England, SCAN Tarragona in Spain, The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Arts in New Orleans. Books include Through Glass (North Light Press, 2014) and Primates (21st Editions, 2017). Anne’s work is featured in National Geographic Proof, Feature Shoot, The Flannery O’Connor Review, Huffington Post and Lens Culture, among others. Anne is a founding member of Pigs Fly Photography Collective. Anne lives in Newnan, GA. She is represented by Catherine Couturier Gallery in Houston.

Blue Moon Camera and Machine's Staff Show 2018
2018-08-25 17:30 - 20:30 | Blue Moon Camera and Machine, 8417 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, 97203, United States
Blue Moon Camera and Machine’s Staff Show 2018
August 25th 5:30-8:30pm
Blue Moon Camera and Machine
8417 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR 97203

Please go around the block behind the store and enter on N Kellogg Street.
Enter through the giant Circle Gate.

503-978-0333
M-F 9-6, Sat. 9-5
sales@bluemooncamera.com
www.bluemooncamera.com
Regulars to the shop know that the crew here at Blue Moon Camera share a deep passion for photography and an appreciation for a wide, wide range of mediums of artistic expression. Throughout the year, we work to highlight the inspiring photography of our talented customers and community. Once a year, there is one fateful night, in which we honor the creative hive mind within our very own staff.
This year’s staff show will be a singular event that you do not want to miss. For one night only, we will transform our super secret backlot into a vibrant display of art! We’re really taking the reins off for this one – all work will have photography as the obvious main thread; viewers should be open to experiencing a variety of visual art, moving beyond the traditional frame and mat.
Take a few moments to join us and see what we’re like when we step out of our professional shoes and into our fun shoes. You may expect fantastic art, strange things, and corndog charcuterie. There will be live music – so come prepared to dance, too! Chat with us, laugh with us, and enjoy the usual shenanigans.
Remember, this only happens once a year, so try not to miss out.
To find us, please go around the block behind the store and enter on N Kellogg Street. Enter through the giant Circle Gate.

Joni Kabana at Pushdot Studio
2018-09-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Joni Kabana, The Salt Workers of Afar at Pushdot Studio

August 3-September 30
Artist Reception: September 7th from 6-8pm for First Friday.
(**Please note that there will not be a First Friday in August.)
Pushdot Studio
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
Portland, OR 97202
Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
Discover the extraordinary world of Ethiopian salt workers who tirelessly extract salt from the Dankil Depression located in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, a region sanctioned as being “the hottest place on earth.” The series explores their extraction process, the surrounding landscape, their tools and attire, as well as some of the weather-worn faces of these devoted men.
Joni Kabana is a visual artist and communications specialist. She can be found at home or in remote villages across the globe working on magazine, NGO, corporate advertisement and personal projects, trying to stretch her beliefs and imagination as far as they will go.

Night Light and Star Photography workshop with Mark Fitzgerald & Lew Tarnopol
2018-09-07 18:00 - 21:00 | OR
Night Light and Star Photography
Taught by: Mark Fitzgerald & Lew Tarnopol
Date/time: September 7, 2018 6pm-11pm
Washington County, 45 minutes from downtown Portland. (Location details will be sent to registrants.)
Info and registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/night-light-and-star-photography-tickets-47975732708
Contact: Mark Fitzgerald – mark@ddroom.com
Join Mark Fitzgerald & Lew Tarnopol to explore an evening of light-painting and Milky Way photography. We’ve picked out a location near Portland that is away from city lights that has picnic tables and restrooms. It will be a moonless evening, perfect for light painting and photographing the stars. We will start off with detailed instruction on camera settings, tips for working in the dark, useful apps, night photography etiquette, and more. Then as darkness begins we’ll experiment with light painting and long exposures. Once it gets completely dark, we’ll settle-in for Milky Way photography and star trails. By the end of the workshop you will have learned everything you need to know to begin having fun with your camera at night and create stunning images.

Matt Eich at Blue Sky Gallery
2018-09-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Matt Eich, I Love You, I’m Leaving
September 6–30 2018
First Thursday opening reception: September 6, 6:00–9:00 PM
Artist talk with Matt Eich: Saturday, September 8, 3:00 PM
“This series borrows from personal experience, and the visual language of the everyday in order to create a fictional account that mirrors my reality. Photographs are reductions, distillations, half-truths and complete fabrications. They can only describe the surface of things, while I am interested in the intangible – memory and emotional resonance.”
Matt Eich photographed I Love You, I’m Leaving during a difficult time in his family’s life: his parents separated after 33 years of marriage, while his siblings were experiencing drastic changes in their personal lives and he and his wife and two children moved to a new city. This emotionally-charged black-and-white series is not strictly memoir, but exists somewhere in-between documentary and fiction. For Eich, the title reflects a constant in his life, which he calls “the rhythm of my peripatetic life.” He notes that “it holds true when I leave my family to photograph strangers, and leave strangers to return home.”
Matt Eich (b. 1986) studied photojournalism at Ohio University and holds an MFA in Photography from Hartford Art School’s International Limited-Residency Program. He is a Professional Lecturer of Photography at The George Washington University and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife and two daughters. Matt’s work has been widely exhibited and received numerous grants and recognitions, including PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch, the Joop Swart Masterclass, an Aaron Siskind Fellowship, and two Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography. Matt’s prints are held in the permanent collections of The Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The New York Public Library, Chrysler Museum of Art and others. This is Eich’s second solo show at Blue Sky.

David N Jones at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2018-09-08 15:00 - 18:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
David N Jones – Paper, Shell and Flowers – High Key Images
The show runs from September 8th through November 8th.
The artist reception will be on Saturday, September the 8th from 3-6 pm.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste. B,
Eugene, OR. 97405
(541) 729-3572
Open Weekdays – call to be sure we’re open
email: waltobrien1945@gmail.com
website: http://obrienimaging.com/gallery.htm
David N Jones is a photographer based in Eugene, Oregon who has been photographing landscapes, abstracts and still lifes since the 1960s.
David uses light and composition to dramatize his emotions, feelings and sensations at the moment of exposure. His goal is to capture the magic, mystery and spirit of his subjects and convey that powerful essence to the viewer.
David’s hope is that his images invite the viewer to step inside; feel the fullness and emptiness, the space, depth, detail and texture. His hope is that the images speak to you about the sense of awe, beauty and connectedness with all living things.
The prints are generated from high resolution digital files and printed with archival quality pigment inks onto acid free watercolor paper. The technical term for these is giclees. The images, protected by glass and out of direct sunlight, are projected to last over 100 years with no significant fading or color shifts.
His work has been on display at the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Jacobs Gallery at Mahlon Field, Eugene, Oregon, Photozone Gallery in Eugene, Oregon and Toad Hall in Yachats, Oregon.
You can view many of David’s images at: http://davidnjones.blogspot.com

Carl Weese at Camerawork Gallery
2018-09-08 16:00 - 19:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Carl Weese, The American Drive-In Theater
September 1st – September 28th, 2018
Artist Talk: Saturday September 8th, 4pm – 5pm
Artist Reception: Saturday September 8th, 5pm – 7pm
Connecticut photographer, Carl Weese notes, “My fascination with the American Drive-In Theater began by chance, when I saw something interesting by the side of the road. In 1998 I was working on a series of photographs of parks and forest reserves in northwestern Connecticut when I spotted a partly overgrown screen of a drive-in theater nestled into hills, a couple hundred yards west of the road. The flat field in between was littered with speaker poles lying on the ground. After exploring for a few minutes I decided it would be a good subject, in early morning light. At dawn several days later, making several exposures with my 8×10 inch camera, heavy clouds rolled in, blocking the sunlight turning the whole scene dull, so the moment was over. When I developed the film I liked the negative so much that I printed it in my next darkroom session and immediately added the picture to my “Current Work” portfolio of platinum/palladium prints.
“Over the next couple of years I found that people who looked at the portfolio often had a particularly strong reaction to the theatre picture. Some recognized the subject immediately, but others would give the print a puzzled look for a while until suddenly the screen—or sometimes the fallen speaker poles—would register. More often than not this would lead to stories about past experiences since operating drive-ins had become scarce in the New York metro area.
“In early 2001, working on another photographic project, I encountered a theatre in Ohio, this one closed for the season but still operating, with an impressive fullyenclosed, metal-clad screen tower. In November of that year, working on yet another project, I found The Pike theater in Montgomery, PA. Closed for the season but still operational a few weeks after 9/11/01. While working with 8×10 and 7×17 cameras, something in the back of my mind clicked about, not this theatre, but the idea of drive-in theaters as a subject. I knew that at one time there had been thousands of them.
“Every drive-in theater is unique. Almost all of them have been individual familyowned operations. Often, when I was able to connect with owners or managers, I found myself speaking with someone who’d been with the theater for fifty years, or was the second or third generation of a family to run the operation.
“The concept of an outdoor theater where patrons could watch movies from their cars was created by a single individual, Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr. In 1932 Hollingshead was a manager in the family company Whiz Auto Products. He wanted to start a business, and also wanted to patent an invention he could franchise. Once the idea of watching movies on a giant screen from the family car was born, it spread with amazing speed.
“During the boom years big drive-in theaters in or near urban centers could expect large crowds. Sadly, few of these theaters can still be found. While sixty years ago drive-in theaters were everywhere, today few remain in urban settings, while a surprising number of the ones I’ve visited are in spectacular settings that could serve for a wealthy country estate. At the opposite extreme, several theaters I photographed in 2012 were situated directly adjacent to large tank farms.
“The sudden die-off of drive-in theaters that began in the early 1960’s had multiple causes: Television, and later the VCR evolving into the “home theater”. Theater owners wryly joke that the only way to get rich from owning a drive-in theater is to sell it to Walmart. Drive-ins can’t survive where commercial real estate values are high.
“By 2017, I’d made photographs of drive-in theaters in fourty-four states, always looking for theaters that had a special visual resonance with their particular landscape surroundings.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
From 1972 until the late 2000s I worked as a freelance assignment photographer for commercial and editorial clients, while spending as much time as I could on selfassigned fine art projects. Corporate clients included IBM, Litton, Associated Spring, The Torrington Company, General Electric, and others. Magazine clients included Business Week, House Beautiful, Practical Homeowner, Family Handyman, and others.
For several years in the 80s I wrote a column for ProPhoto magazine. In the 90s I wrote extensively for PhotoTechniques Magazine and held the title Contributing Editor. In 1998 I was co-author and designer/illustrator for the book The New Platinum print—an instruction manual in contemporary approaches to the classic platinum/palladium photographic print. I continue to write technical articles for the web site The Online Photographer.
My personal projects began with a text/pictures study of religious ritual, completed on a college scholarship trip with the International Honors Program, traveling around the world during the 1969-70 academic year.
While completing professional assignments to pay the bills and support personal work, I did projects looking at life in a small rural Pennsylvania town, multiple series of pictures of the characteristic landscape of the U.S. East Coast, two different series following a traveling carnival through New England, and more landscape work ranging from New England down the coast to Alabama and Florida, along with several series looking at vernacular architecture including rural church buildings. The largest project is a study of Drive-in Movie theaters in all of the various regional American landscape settings, a project that now includes more than 200 theaters. Some of the Drive-in work has been featured in a one-person show at the Washington (CT) Art Association and will be in a one-person show this September at Camerawork Gallery in Portland, OR. Several magazine articles have featured the work, along with multiple online venues, including the New York Times “Lens” blog
PARTIAL LIST OF EXHIBITIONS, ETC.
“The Great American Drive-in Theater Road Trip”, Photo Techniques Magazine, Sept/Oct 2013. Eight page article with six reproductions of photographs.
Artist in Residence, October 14-21, 2012, The Firehouse Cultural Center, Ruskin, Florida.
“From the Road: Off-Topic pictures from the Great Drive-in Theater Road Trip”. Solo exhibit at The Firehouse.
“Working Pictures: The Pennsylvania Series,” at The Camerawork Gallery, Scranton, PA, 2010.
“Coal Country,” The Camerawork Gallery, Scranton, PA, September 2007. “The American Drive-in Movie Theater,” Washington Art Association, Washington, Connecticut, February, 2007.
The Connecticut Vision, 2006, Juried show, The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT. In Living Color, The Gunn Memorial Library’s Stairwell Gallery.
The Enigmatic Landscape, Curated by Carl Weese, Photographs by: Jens Knigge (Germany), Harald Leban (Austria), Tony McLean (England), Carl Weese (United States), Witho Worms (Netherlands), 2005, Corporate and Museum Frame, Richmond, VA.
Two Views, Photographs of the American Scene by David Peter Arnold and Carl Weese, Minor Memorial Library, Roxbury, CT
The Connecticut Vision 2004, Juried Exhibition, Mattatuck Museum.
Group Show, West Wind Studio, Washington, Connecticut.
Steep Rock and the Shepaug, West Wind Gallery, Washington, Connecticut, Contact prints in platinum/palladium, photographs made at Steep Rock Reservation between 1997 and 2002.
The Fixed & The Fluid, Group Show of Gallery Artists, Alper’s Fine Arts, Gleason Public Library, Carlisle, MA.
November 2002, The Connecticut Vision 2002, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut, Juried Show.
October 14-November 11, 2001, ”Spectra 2001″, National Photography Biennial, Silvermine Art Guild.
June 22 to July 22, 2001, ”Illuminations”, Alpers Fine Art, Andover, Massachusetts.
“Two Rivers: Photographs from the Shepaug and Farmington Rivers”, April, 2001, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, Connecticut, Two-Person Show with Andrew Buck.
Three-Person Show, Large Format Platinum/Palladium Prints, April, 2001, Richmond, Virginia, Corporate & Museum Frame.
Annual Juried Photography Exhibition 2000, December 1, 2000 to January 31, 2001 Corporate & Museum Frame, Richmond, Virginia, Ashley Kistler, Juror.
November, 2000 Solo Exhibition, American Landscapes, Atelier pH7, Brussels, Belgium, Roger. Kockaerts, Curator.
The Connecticut Vision 2000, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut.
The Focused Eye, 2000, Group Exhibit, New Arts Gallery, Bantam, Connecticut.)

The Portfolios at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2018-09-08 17:00 - 20:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
The Portfolios
September 8th – October 10th, 2018
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, September 8th, 5-8pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery
1045 Marine Dr.
Astoria, OR 97103
(503) 468-0238
lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery will host the artists’ opening reception for “The Portfolios” on Saturday, September 8th, from 5-8 pm. The Portfolios presents the work of 15 Photographers who were selected for the uniqueness and excellence of their submitted portfolios. The exhibit intends to reward the photographers for their photographic effort and to open the opportunity to share their vision with the public via the gallery walls. Each of the fifteen photographers will present 4 works on the walls of the gallery.
Congratulations to the Photographers of The Portfolios
Kim Adams • Norm Arnold • Rich Bergeman
Jason Biehner • Annette Burke • Rory Earnshaw
Jim Fitzgerald • Ryan Gillespie • Eleanor Gorman
Thea Martin • Ralph Mercer • Conrad Pressma
Robert Potts • Charlotte Watts • Patrick Whitaker
The Portfolios will be on display in the gallery through October 10th. Please visit the gallery during the month to see the collection of work. Complete show info is on the LightBox website at http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/. LightBox memberships are a way to become part of the community that helps to further the mission of the gallery. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or info@lightboxphotographic.com. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11 – 5:30.

Call for Proposals for Blue Sky's 2019 Curatorial Prize
2018-09-17 23:30 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Call for Proposals for Blue Sky’s 2019 Curatorial Prize
Call opens: August 9, 2018
Call closes: September 17, 2018
Decisions announced: November 2, 2018
Exhibition held: May 2–June 2, 2019
Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR is seeking proposals for a Curatorial Prize for a one-month long photo-based exhibition in May 2019.
This second annual Curatorial Prize provides an opportunity for curators to present an exhibition of photo-based work, along with related programming and publications at one of the nation’s most highly regarded photography galleries. The program seeks exhibitions of 2–5 artists who use photography in traditional or experimental ways. Video/film are welcome. Our inaugural Curatorial Prize winner was curator Ashley Stull Meyer’s exhibition Ultra Vivid Dreaming.
Blue Sky Gallery’s ambitious exhibition schedule does naturally limit the extent of work possible (we only have 1–2 days for installation and 1 day for de-install). Within those parameters, we commonly hang shows of approximately 20–30 images, generally either framed or hung with magnets. If your work is installation based, or is otherwise rigorous to install, please be sure to directly address a manageable approach to installation/de-installation within our fast-paced schedule.
Scope of Work
• Solicit and select 2–5 artists for a May 2019 exhibition, working with Blue Sky’s Exhibition Manager to confirm artists, contracts, etc.
• In collaboration with Blue Sky staff, oversee exhibition planning, shipping of work, and coordination of artists’ schedules for events. Artist schedules and events will be finalized 3 months in advance of the exhibition.
• Write about the artists’ work/your vision for various venues including: an exhibition catalog, press release, and the Blue Sky blog.
• Present a talk about the artists’ work/your vision at Blue Sky to the public during the opening weekend of the exhibition (or at another mutually agreed upon time, decided 3 months in advance of the exhibition). Attend the opening night if possible.
• Align with the mission and goals of Blue Sky Gallery while bringing a unique curatorial vision to the Gallery.
• Prepare exhibition models and sketches as required.
Qualifications
• Awareness of contemporary photography issues, practices, and artists.
• Ability to work responsively and collaboratively with Blue Sky staff.
• Ability to organize and communicate messages effectively through writing and public presentation to different audiences.
• Ability to manage an exhibition, stay within budget, and meet deadlines.
Financial Considerations
Curatorial stipend is $750. An additional total pool of up to $4,000 for artist stipends, travel/housing (artists and curator), honorariums for writing, printing, and shipping will be available. Blue Sky will work with selected curator to establish budget for programs and publications and all budget allocations are subject to Blue Sky approval, in keeping with our normal fees for other exhibitions. Blue Sky can provide black frames for photography at no cost if the photos are of a standard size. Other alternatives to framing include magnets or mirror clips.
Submission Requirements
Proposals are due to Blue Sky Gallery by September 17, 2018. Please submit to exhibitions@blueskygallery.org, and be sure to put the write “CURATORIAL PRIZE” in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed and a curator chosen by Blue Sky’s staff and Exhibition Committee. Applications should include the following documents merged into a single PDF:
1. Curatorial statement and vision for the Curatorial Prize, including estimated costs.
2. Professional resume/CV, including a link to your website if applicable.
3. Examples of past curatorial work, including images and critical reviews.
4. Samples of work the artists you have chosen for your exhibition (and/or links to the websites of the work selected).
5. A writing sample of previous curatorial statements or published writing.
Note: The Exhibition Committee reviews proposals projected onto a screen; keep this in mind when formatting examples of past curatorial work. The preferred format for viewing images in a PDF is with one image per page on a black background with no borders. All images should be free of watermarks. Please be sure that the total size of your emailed file does not exceed 25MB. For videos, please include a link to view video(s) online in your PDF.
For questions, please email exhibitions@blueskygallery.org. Please note that Blue Sky is unable to give feedback on your application or the application process.
For more information about Blue Sky Gallery, please see www.blueskygallery.org.

Wendy Given at Guild Mortgage Building
2018-09-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Guild Mortgage Building, 1953 NW Kearney Street, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Wendy Given, You, Darkness

Tuesday, September 18, 5 – 7pm, 6pm talk
1953 NW Kearney Street (Guild Mortgage Building)
Exhibitions are in the gallery inside the Guild Mortgage Bldg.
Thursday 9/6, Tuesday 9/11, Thursday 9/27, 1 – 5pm
Presented by VERNISSAGE FINE ART
Contact MaryAnn Deffenbaugh for an appointment
maryann@vernissagefineart.com
971-277-4118, vernissagefineart.com

For this exhibition, Wendy Given presents vivid, uncanny photographs and sculptures resonating in the dark, unstable ground between consciousness and collective memories of the nocturnal, the nonhuman, and the wildness that resides in each of us.
Given’s practice stems from a profound interest guided by the natural world, folklore, myth and magic—magic as a term meant to conjure the notion of the interconnectedness of all life forces. Nature is prescribed as a foundation of verity, power, and mystery in her work—both intelligible and arcane. While Given’s subject matter dwells on primeval belief systems, the resulting work is distinctively contemporary—reflective of modern culture’s mode of assimilating and processing myth. Her visual craft conveys an intense yearning to honor and utilize our inherent awareness—to regain the unspoken understanding of the fact that we are all, and always will be (as humans), integral to and dependent on the natural world.
Vernissage Fine Art curates the gallery space inside the Guild Mortgage Building, formerly the Oregon Jewish Museum. Viewings of exhibitions are at monthly evening receptions, special viewing hours and by appointment. September afternoon viewing hours are:
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Wendy Given is an artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. She studied fine art and was trained in painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture during her BFA undergraduate work at Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. Given has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, and Vernissage Fine Art in Portland, Oregon. She is also the PDX Art Program Coordinator/Curator for the Port of Portland and a wilderness guide with Portland’s Signal Fire Artist Residency.
wendygiven.com

Charles Purvis at the Portland Art Museum
2018-09-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Charles Purvis, Strange associations
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’s
Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
Portland Art Museum
The Miller Room, Mark Building
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
www.portlandartmuseum.org
503 226 2811
Cost: Free to the public.
This talk is a presentation of work created in the studio. It falls in the category of still life yet is not primarily concerned with the natural depiction of objects or of objects as symbols. The intention is to strip away conventional meaning in favor of form by foregrounding strange associations and by replacing common orientational assumptions with structural innovations determined by the particular characteristics of the 4×5 camera, film, and light. The studio is seen as a liminal space of absolute potentiality. What is to be, must be created. Entering the studio becomes analogous to the experience of going within oneself to explore imagination, creativity and the feeling state.
For many years Charles Purvis worked as a photographer in New York City creating groundbreaking imagery for a wide variety of internationally known clients. In addition to commercial assignments, Charles has created a large body of innovative work inspired by a relentless curiosity and desire to uncover the creative potential of camera, light and film.

Leslie Peltz at Washington County Museum
2018-09-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Washington County Museum, 17677 NW Springville Rd., Portland, OR, 97229, United States
Leslie Peltz, Silos of Washington County Photographs
September 27, 2018 – May, 2019
Opening Reception, Thursday September 27, 2018 6-8 pm
Washington County Museum
Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus
17677 NW Springville Rd. Portland, OR 97229
503-645-5353
Open Wednesday through Saturday 10 am-3 pm
Molly Alloy, Community Engagement Coordinator and Guest Curator
molly@washingtoncountymuseum.org
http://www.washingtoncountymuseum.org
Photographs by Leslie Peltz of silos used for grain, seed and silage storage in Washington County are part of the new exhibit, AgriCulture: Shaping Land and Lives in the Tualatin Valley. Her pensive black and white images invite the viewer into quiet moments she has encountered in her outings across Washington County to document silos with a Holga camera.
Visitors to this dynamic, colorful exhibit will be able to touch, hear, see and learn about agriculture and the many ways it impacts our communities. Since time immemorial people in the Tualatin Valley have used their labor and technology to maximize the amount of nourishing food and valuable plant products that grow in this fertile area. Those efforts have re-formed human habits and social structures as well as the physical landscape. This interactive exhibit centers on eight oral histories drawn from the museum’s archive housed within Pacific University’s digital exhibits. These individuals, some historic and some contemporary, speak to the field of agriculture through their personal experiences and the experiences of their families and ancestors. Together they become a dialogue across time, culture and technology that highlights many facets of agriculture’s impact on us all.
Along with photography, video, illustration, and an interactive drawing station, historic objects from the museum’s collection will be featured throughout the exhibit so that visitors can experience first-hand some of the tools that have helped shape the land around them.

Print and Pint at Lagunitas Community Room
2018-09-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Lagunitas Community Room, 237 NE Broadway, Suite 300, Portland, OR, 97232, United States
Print and Pint at Lagunitas Community Room
Come to our second ASMP PRINT AND PINT meet-up sponsored by:
Camera Bits, Inc, makers of Photo Mechanic, Pro Photo Supply, and Lagunitas Brewing Co.
September 27, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Lagunitas Community Room
237 NE Broadway, Suite 300
Portland, OR 97232
All working photographers are invited to come and share their workprints with other pros. The theme for this second meet up is DOCUMENTARY/EVENT, and will feature photographer Jan Sonnemair. She’ll be showing 20 slides x 20 seconds and sharing her thoughts on the idea of DOCUMENTARY photography.
What do we mean by DOCUMENTARY/EVENT? We want you to bring 2 WORKPRINTS of images (old or new) that fall inside of: street photography, news gathering, documentary storytelling and event coverage (including concerts, sports, rallies, etc.).
What do we mean by “WORKPRINTS“? These are not precious, matted, framed, bagged or collectible. These are prints you can spill beer on, or trade with other Photographers at the end of the night. They are work-in-progress quality, not fine art.
This is a FREE event if you bring 2 8×10 work prints on the THEME. If you don’t, it’s $10 (hint: bring 2 prints). The event is limited, so RSVP now.
When you register you’ll get a coupon from our generous print sponsor, Pro Photo Supply, to make 2 discounted 8×10 Kodak C-Prints!
Those prints will get you Free beer (21+, 1 per) and Pizza!
Jan Sonnenmair has been a photojournalist for a heck of a long time. She started right out of college traveling the world as a staff photographer for the Dallas Morning News and then eventually moving to Los Angeles where she shot freelance assignments for National Magazines and worked on long term projects. One long term project on a boy born with AIDS won a special award for photo essay from The World Press Foundation. After moving to Portland in 2004 she began using her reportage skills to tell stories for companies, non-profits and institutions. In 2016, she received the Knight Fellowship for Visual Communications and spent a year studying and teaching at Ohio University. Currently she is directing and co-producing a feature length documentary film.

Christopher Rauschenberg curated group show at Blue Sky Gallery
2018-09-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Touch: a group show curated by Christopher Rauschenberg
September 6–30 2018
First Thursday opening reception: September 6, 6:00–9:00 PM
Curator talk Christopher Raschenberg: Saturday, September 29, 3:00 PM
Touch is an exhibition featuring over 70 prints from the photography collection of Blue Sky co-founder and photographer Christopher Rauschenberg. The show was inspired by a particular image: Charles Harbutt’s 1961 photograph of a blind boy delicately touching a beam of light (above). This led Rauschenberg to bring together the many other works in his collection that visually capture this poignant human sensory experience in its myriad forms.
Touch features photographs by the following artists:
Thomas Alleman, Catherine Angel, Talya C. Arbisser, Eugene Atget, Rich Bergeman, Cecilia Berkovic, Skyra Beveridge, Richard Brown, Tom Champion, Jamila Clarke, Vernoll Coleman, Celeste Cottingham, Paul Dahlquist, Arstide Economopoulos, Sidney Felsen, Michelle Frankfurter, Mary Frey, Patricia Galagan, Dorothy Glenn, Alison Grippo, M Bruce Hall, Anita Hamremoen, Charles Harbutt, Phil Harris, Craig Hickman, Ann Hughes, Birney Imes III, Gwynne Johnson, Sara Kirschenbaum, Les Krims, Justine Kurland, Dorthea Lange, Robert Langham, Zun Lee, Catherine Leuthold, Holly Lynton, Chema Madoz, Heather McClintock, July Mihaly, Jennifer Lynn Morse, Zanele Muholi, David Pace, Gordon Parks, Keri Pickett, Ann Ploeger, Gus Powell, Romualdas Požerskis, Jana Romanova, Irina Rozovsky, Nadia Sablin, Kris Sanford, Dona Schwartz, Joshua Smith, Jan Sonnenmair, Larry Sultan, Chip Thomas, Paul Trevor, and Carol Yarrow.
In addition to the work by the above artists, during the month of September the Blue Sky community is invited to submit their own Touch photographs via Instagram using the hashtag #touchbluesky. Rauschenberg will print his favorite submissions and add them to the exhibition during the run of the show.
Christopher Rauschenberg received his BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. His work has been exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, the Chicago Cultural Center, the International Center of Photography in New York, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, among many other major institutions. An exceptionally active leader in the Northwest arts community, he taught at Marylhurst College in Lake Oswego, Oregon for many years and co-founded Nine Gallery here in Blue Sky and photography nonprofit Photolucida, in addition to co-founding Blue Sky Gallery in 1975.

Austin Granger at Camerawork Gallery
2018-09-29 15:00 - 18:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Austin Granger, A Beautiful Sadness
September 29th – November 2nd, 2018
Artist Talk: Saturday, September 29th 3 – 4 PM
Artist Reception: Saturday, September 29th 4 – 6 PM
Camerawork Gallery
301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227
Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.
9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pm
Free off street parking available, Stair and elevator access
www.TheCameraworkGallery.org
www.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery
503-701-5347
A reviewer once described Austin Granger’s photographs as possessing a “beautiful sadness”–a description which makes him happy. “I want my pictures to make people feel,” Granger says, “I want them to express, through the things of the world, universal human conditions. I want to meet my viewer in the middle. What’s it all for, if not that? “The subject matter in this exhibit is wide-ranging, but the pictures are all of one piece,” notes Granger. “They are all about more than what they show. At least, that’s the way I think of it. I’m interested in whether or not a subject can carry the weight of an emotion or an idea, even if on the surface that subject is not explicitly related to that emotion or idea. I want to make pictures that correspond with the viewer’s interior world—pictures that resonate. I want to make mirrors. I want to bridge the gap and make a connection. Is such a thing possible? I’ve thought about it a lot, and my answer is… sometimes. People bring their minds to their looking at things. I expect the best I can do is to follow my inner compass, and photograph the things that make me feel, in as clear a way as I can, and hope that the viewer will feel then too. “I don’t really know what it is I’m looking for when I’m photographing, but I know it when I see it. When I’m photographing well, I have the uncanny sense that the pictures were already there, just waiting for me. They feel pre-destined. I quiet myself and they appear. Photography for me is passive like that. I put up my antennae and wait. I recognize pictures right away. I recognize how they feel. When it’s going well, I don’t have any doubt about either the subject or how it should look. I recognize my pictures. I know them. They’re like the pieces of a puzzle. I may not know quite what the puzzle is of, but I know which pieces belong to it. Good pictures feel charged. They feel significant. They have a certain ache. And yes, admittedly, sometimes they have a certain sadness. “I’d like to say though, even though my pictures might look sad, I am seldom happier than when I’m making them. And I’d like to think they might make someone else happy too—in the way that listening to sad music can lift our spirits.
“See, I’m a blues photographer!”
Austin Granger is the author of the acclaimed book, Elegy from the Edge of a Continent: Photographing Point Reyes. His pictures have been exhibited in a number of West Coast galleries, including LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, the CAC Gallery in Santa Rosa, and the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, and have been featured in magazines such as B&W, Looking Glass, Manifest, and the West Marin Review. His work has graced album covers, a book cover, and Nike basketball shirts.
Born in San Francisco in 1970, Granger has worked as a baker, house painter, naval radar operator, and camera salesman. He first began to photograph while studying philosophy in college as a way to get out of his head. Preferring to use traditional film cameras, Granger has come to see his photography as a spiritual practice–a way in which to shape his life and enrich his relationship with the world.
www.AustinGranger.com

Christopher Rauschenberg at Nine Gallery
2018-10-04 18:00 | Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Christopher Rauschenberg, Exhibition of photographs taken in Vietnam
October 4 through 28, 2018
Nine Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
503-225-0210
Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pm
503-225-0210
Nine Gallery will present an exhibition of photographs taken in Vietnam by Christopher Rauschenberg. There will be a reception from 6 to 9 pm, Thursday, October 4th.
For more information, more press images and/or press prints, contact:
Christopher Rauschenberg
503-236-2931 (talk or fax)
rberg@hevanet.com

Tommy Kha at Blue Sky Gallery
2018-10-04 18:00 - 21:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Tommy Kha, I’m Only Here to Leave
October 4–28, 2018
First Thursday opening reception: October 4, 6:00–9:00 PM
Artist talk with Tommy Kha: Thursday, October 4, 6:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
503-225-0210
Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pm
First Thursday 6 – 9 pm
bluesky@blueskygallery.org
http://www.blueskygallery.org/

“Through the framework of the self-portrait, I constantly navigate between self and otherness in my photography. Themes of likeness and representation are at the forefront of my picture making. I shift between comedy and tragedy, familiarity and foreignness, performer and camera operator.”
In I’m Only Here to Leave, Tommy Kha amplifies the performative and iterative nature of self-representation through his uncanny photographs and video installation that creatively engage others and his surroundings. The artist re-photographs cardboard cutouts of himself in various environments and creates “masks” of his own likeness to cover the faces of the people he photographs. Kha’s self-portraits, which tend to look like simple collages or crude Photoshop manipulations, draw attention to the fact that something—the artist’s body—is out of place. He notes that by superimposing his face onto those who embody the things he desires to emphasize about himself, he is attempting to become “more queer, more Asian, more Southern.”
Tommy Kha is a photographer based between Brooklyn, New York and his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. He holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University and he is a recipient of a 2017 En Foco Photography Fellowship. Kha also received the Jessie and Dolph Smith Emeritus Award and was named a Magenta Foundation Flash Forward emerging photographer. He has been the artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Light Work, Fountainhead, and Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York. In December 2015 Kha published his first monograph, A Real Imitation, through Aint-Bad and his work was featured on the cover of Vice Magazine’s 2017 Photography Issue. He occasionally performs, writes, and appears in some films, including Laurie Simmons’ feature, My Art.

Tamera Staples at Blue Sky Gallery
2018-10-04 18:00 - 21:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Tamera Staples, Side Effects May Include
October 4–28, 2018
First Thursday opening reception: October 4, 6:00–9:00 PM
Panel discussion on mental health and polypharmacy
in conjunction with Side Effects May Include:
Saturday, October 6, 3:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
503-225-0210
Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pm
First Thursday 6 – 9 pm
bluesky@blueskygallery.org
http://www.blueskygallery.org/
Side Effects May Include is a photo-based installation by Tamara Staples that focuses on the relationship between mental health and poly-pharmacy, or the simultaneous use of multiple drugs by a single patient. The project was inspired by the artist’s sister, who took her life with a cocktail of pharmaceuticals after living with bipolar disorder for many years. Following her death, Staples collected the contents of her sister’s medicine cabinet, sorted the thousands of pills, arranged them in patterns, and photographed them. She then translated the photos into wallpaper, a quilt, upholstery, dresses, and drapes to create an entire room covered in pill-based patterns. This deceptively alluring and decorative display immerses the viewer in a cacophony of images, echoing the tremendous scope of the poly-pharmacy epidemic in the United States today.
In conjunction with Side Effects May Include, Blue Sky will host a panel discussion about mental health and poly-pharmacy on Saturday, October 6th at 3PM. The panel will include mental health practitioners and individuals with lived experience including Gina Nikkel, PhD, President & CEO of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care, John Herold, Director of Puget Sound Hearing Voices, staff from Mental Health America of Oregon, exhibition artist Tamara Staples, and others.
Tamara Staples is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. After she received her BFA in Photography from the University of Florida in Gainesville, she began her career as a prop stylist for print and television. Now a commercial and fine art photographer, her work has appeared in numerous publications including Harper’s Magazine, New York Times, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Food and Wine, Town and Country, Utne Reader and Bloomberg Business Magazine. Her work has been also featured on This American Life, CNN, Slate Magazine and NPR’s Animal House. Staples has exhibited at Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY; Purdue University Galleries in Lafayette, Indiana; Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Ga; Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York City; Museum of Modern Art in Baltimore, MD; Aron Packer Gallery in Chicago, Il; and Lightworks Gallery in Charlotte, NC. Staples is the recipient of a NYFA Grant, a PDN self promotion award, the 2014 Bronze award from the Royal Photographic Society, and has completed a Rauschenberg Residency. This is her second solo show at Blue Sky.

Kurt Norlin, Matt Reese and Eric French; Bending Light: Mood/Magic/Metaphor
2018-10-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany, OR, 97330, United States
Kurt Norlin, Matt Reese and Eric French; Bending Light: Mood/Magic/Metaphor
Sept. 24 – Nov. 15, 2018
Reception and Gallery Talk: Wednesday, Oct. 10 from 11am to noon in the gallery
South Santiam Hall Gallery
Linn-Benton Community College
6500 Pacific Blvd SW
Albany, OR 97330
541-917-4999
Weekdays, 8 am – 5 pm
artgallery@linnbenton.edu
An exhibit by three Oregon photographers who use their lenses in unusual ways will be on view Sept. 24 through Nov. 15 in the South Santam Hall Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany.
“Bending Light: Mood/Magic/Metaphor” features the work of Eric French of Corvallis, Matt Reese of Eugene and Kurt Norlin of Albany.
A reception and gallery talk will be held Wednesday Oct. 10 from 11 a.m. to noon in the gallery.
French creates moody “noir” photographs with his custom-built “camera obscura,” which he says “bends the light in a way different than ordinary lenses, creating gently modified images” that reveal elements of nostalgia and mystery. “With my imagery, I aspire to bring about glimpses of melancholy, serenity, sentiment and memory,” says French.
“Magic” is the word Reese uses to describe the results he gets from repurposing old lenses and adapting them to his otherwise ordinary digital camera. His colorful selective-focus closeups of plants have been exhibited previously in Eugene galleries, but never shown in the mid-valley before. “Any subject is fair game,” he says, “but most of the time I find myself drawn into the hidden natural world, peering with my glass eyes at scenes of beauty and drama usually overlooked.”
Norlin describes his photography as “part science, part art and part ritual.” His abstract color images are created by employing “intentional camera movement” (ICM) with a pinhole lens on a digital camera. “This method allows me to literally draw with light and has led more and more to dealing with things that lay outside the frame,” Norlin explains. “Dreams, visions, memories and metaphors have become the subject matter of my art.”
The South Santiam Hall Gallery is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

ODD at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2018-10-13 17:00 - 20:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
ODD
October 13th – November 7th, 2018
Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, October 13th, 5-8pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery
1045 Marine Dr.
Astoria, OR 97103
(503) 468-0238
lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery will host the artists’ opening reception for ODD on Saturday, October 13th from 5-8 pm. The exhibit shares photographic images that deviate from the normal—either in subject or in method—that are mismatched, individualistic, outside the box, and peculiar. Photographs that simultaneously challenge and excite. Images that dare viewers to think and see in unexpected ways. The Exhibit was juried by Russell Joslin.
Russell Joslin is a celebrated editor and publisher. For 17 years (2000-2017), he was the Owner, Editor & Publisher of the internationally acclaimed photography journal SHOTS. In 2018, he founded a new photography and art book publishing company, Skeleton Key Press. He lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
“I’m pleased to present the exhibition Odd—a peculiar selection of images that fascinate with their expressions of off-center ideas and psychological concepts while capturing both staged and unexpected moments. A compelling variety of photographic techniques and processes were utilized to create these images (including wet-plate, pinhole, gelatin silver, cyanotype, Polaroid, double-exposure, mixed-media, film, and digital) and to assist in expressing each artist’s ideas that challenge convention and endeavor to enlighten the shadowy corners of their viewers’ psyches.” ~ Russell Joslin
Congratulations to the Photographers of ODD
Allan Barnes • Ronald Butler • Norma Cordova
Dana Day • Joseph Deiss • Mark Dierker
Gene Dominique • Diane Fenster • Nickolas Hurlbut
Kerry Jeffrey • Leighton McWilliams • Jody Miller
Chris Minnick • Julie Moore • Patrick Neary
Tone Elin Solholm • Tom Van de Ven • Dianne Yudelson
ODD will be on display in the gallery through November 7. Please visit the gallery during the month to see the collection of work. Complete show info is on the LightBox website at http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/. LightBox memberships are a way to become part of the community that helps to further the mission of the gallery.

Portland Nonprofit Photography Workshop
2018-10-17 12:00 - 17:00 | OR
Portland Nonprofit Photography Workshop
Wednesday October 17 at noon – Sunday October 21 at 5 pm
Takes place during the entire day throughout.
The cost is $1750 for the five day workshop.
LOCATION DISCLOSED UPON REGISTRATION (NW Portland)
https://momentaworkshops.com/workshop/project-portland-2018-leica-photography-and-multimedia-workshops-working-with-nonprofits/
Momenta is hosting their popular Project Portland: Photographing with Nonprofits workshop this October 17-21. Join us to use your photography as a force for change, give back to your community, and develop your skills in the process.
The intensive 5-day workshop includes a photo assignment with a local nonprofit, daily editing sessions with the instructor team, professional portfolio presentations each night, and the Momenta core lectures which focus on: marketing your work to paying nonprofit clients, successful strategies for grant writing and crowdfunding, portfolio suggestions to get better paying jobs, networking tips, contracts and negotiations, and much more. Likewise, the professional instructors will share their work and talk about how they work with editors and get the best from their contracts. Plus, attendees can take out a Leica to shoot with for the workshop as well!
Since our first workshop, Momenta’s student and instructor work has been featured in national publications, our alumni have created entirely new career paths in humanitarian photography, and 3 stories from our workshops have been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes! We’ve trained students early in their photojournalist trajectories, mid-career professionals in the midst of career changes, and hobbyist photographers seeking to use their skills as a force for social change.
You can address any questions to info@momentaWorkshops.com

Team Photo Cascadia show at University of Oregon Law School Gallery
2018-10-20 09:00 - 18:00 | University of Oregon School of Law, 1515 Agate St., Eugene, OR, 97403, United States
Team Photo Cascadia
Erin Babnik, Sean Bagshaw, David Cobb, Adrian Klein, Kevin McNeal, Chip Phillips, and Zach Schnepf.
Present through Nov. 26, 2018
University of Oregon Law School Gallery
1515 Agate St., Eugene OR 97493
9 am to 6 pm – 7 days a week
541-346-3868
Seven nationally and internationally recognized photographers, forming Team Cascadia, bring their exhibit “Atmosphere” to the University of Oregon Law School 2d Floor Gallery.
The stunning images in the show have been selected by the photographers for qualities of atmosphere, an elusive but critical element in their photography. Adrian Klein, one of the photographers says, “As a group, we share a passion for atmosphere, searching it out and capturing it in the landscape. of our art. In our landscape photography, atmosphere alludes to the pervading tone or mood of a place, a view or an environment, and is often the defining element and key ingredient. Recognizing and recording compelling atmosphere at the precise moment is often the difference between ordinary and transcendent.”
The exhibit’s fourteen captivating photographs are printed on aluminum sheets providing depth perception, brilliance, and penetrating views mostly of mountain scenes and landscapes in the Northwest. The images enfold the viewers into their atmospheres.
Photo Cascadia

Inner Light Photographic Society at Buckley Center Gallery
2018-10-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Buckley Center Gallery, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, OR, 97203-5798, United States
Inner Light Photographic Society, Inner Light Outer Vision
October 22 – November 15, 2018
Reception: Sunday, October 28th 2-4 p.m.
Buckley Center Gallery
University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
Portland, OR 97203-5798
Gallery Hours:
Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Sat & Sun 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
The Inner Light Photographic Society was founded in 1986 by
Master Photographer Shedrich Williames. We started with classic film
cameras, printing on black and white fiber base paper in trays
of darkroom chemistry.
The essence of our beginnings informs our current work. Many
of the group’s members continue to express their vision with film.
Some have crossed the bridge from analog to digital and back again.
Some have taken a fresh look at old contact sheets, finding exciting
work never before shown. One member is developing rolls of film
refrigerated for decades.
Whatever the media or camera format, Inner Lighters love the fine art
of photography. Thirty-two years later, our group continues
to be a vital, creative resource for its members. We gather informally
to discuss works in progress and share a meal at monthly meetings.
We present an eclectic collection of art photography that we hope
will inspire University of Portland students and intrigue art gallery
viewers.
Participating Artists:
Wendy Berreth
Christine Eagon
Cheryle Easter
Al Flory
Linda Freeland
Cecile Galligan
Joe Glasgow
Thomas Golden
Claudia J. Howell
Peter Karnig
Jane Keating
Janelle Lee
Alan Mevis
Lorraine Richey
Jim Skates
Scott Weston

"In Transit" group show at Blue Sky Gallery
2018-11-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
In Transit
A group exhibition featuring the works of
George Awde, Daniel Castro Garcia, Gohar Dashti,
Tanya Habjouqa, and Stefanie Zofia Schulz
Curated by Peggy Sue Amison
November 1–December 30, 2018
First Thursday opening reception: November 1, 6:00–9:00 PM
*Please note that the curator and artists will present about the work in early December.*
In Transit is a multidisciplinary exhibition that focuses on the tentative, limbo-like experience of living between different cultures. The exhibition explores the stories of immigrants who traverse the no-man’s land that exists between home and hope.
The lives of those fleeing from unsafe, economically depressed homelands towards dreams of a more secure future are filled with boredom, sadness, fear, and apathy. They experience the deep absence of the loss of loved ones, familiar places, and citizenship. The photography and video works in this exhibition are created in Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, Italy, and Iran, and are testimonies to day-to-day survival alongside the struggle to find a sense of normalcy and stability and a place to call home.
Utilizing photography, performance and filmmaking, each body of work examines the experiences of those thrust into a culture that is markedly different from their own. These stories illustrate the physical and psychological challenges faced, while additionally looking at the deeper discussion of what constitutes citizenship in the wake of the enormous migrations into Europe. Through their narratives, the artists strive to disrupt accepted misconceptions about immigration and otherness in order to tell a more accurate story. By collaborating with their subjects they give voice to those who must endure mountains of dead time while tangled up in bureaucracy in order to become more than merely ‘registered aliens.’
About the Artists and Curator
Tanya Habjouqa (JO) is an award-winning photographer, journalist and educator. Her practice links social documentary, collaborative portraiture, and participant observation. Her principal interests include gender, representations of otherness, dispossession and human rights, with a particular concern for the ever-shifting sociopolitical dynamics in the Middle East. Habjouqa’s work has been exhibited worldwide and is in the collections of MFA Boston, Institut du Monde Arab, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. She is a founding member of Rawiya, the first all-female photography collective from the Middle East. She is also one of four mentors for the Arab Documentary Photography Program, organized by Magnum Foundation, Prince Claus Foundation, and AFAC. She is a member of the Noor Agency and represented by East Wing Gallery. Habjouqa lives with her family in East Jerusalem.
Gohar Dashti (IR) received her M.A. in Photography from the Fine Art University of Tehran in 2005. After studying photography in Iran, she has spent the last thirteen years focusing her practice on social issues with particular references to history and culture through a convergence of interests in anthropology and sociology. Her practice continuously develops from life events and connection between the personal and the universal, the political and the fantasized. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is in collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (USA), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City (USA), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (USA), Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago (USA), and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR). Dashti presently lives with her family between Iran and the United States.
George Awde (USA/LB) was born in Boston of Lebanese origin. Drawn to alternative narratives, his work delves into issues surrounding citizenship, nationality and sexuality, focusing on people living on the margins of the city and their parallel realities between life in Beirut and elsewhere. He graduated with an MFA in Photography from Yale University in 2009 and holds a BA in painting from Massachusetts College of the Arts, Boston. Awde presently lives between Doha, Qatar; Beirut, Lebanon; and Cairo, Egypt. He is represented by East Wing Gallery and teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha, Qatar, and is also co-founder and co-director of marra.tein residency program in Beirut.
Daniel Castro Garcia (UK) was born and raised in Oxford, England, by parents who emigrated from Spain’s Galicia region seeking economic opportunities. As the son of immigrants himself, Castro Garcia wanted to use his work as a photographer and filmmaker to help migrants/refugees have their voices heard. Since May 2015, he has revisited many of Europe’s refugee/ migrant hotspots. The book, Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015 – 2016 was self published in 2016, with graphic designer Thomas Saxby and producer Jade Morris. In 2017 Castro Garcia received the British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award and selected as a grantee by the Magnum Foundation Fund. He was also awarded the 2017 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Castro Garcia is represented by East Wing Gallery. He is lives and works in Sicily.
Stefanie Zofia Schulz (DE) was born in Germany and is a graduate of the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin. Her photographic practice focuses on the documentation of important social issues and the human condition. Her work has been exhibited in Festival Circulations (FR) in 2016 and has been published in i-D Magazine, Emerge magazine and Dazed digital. She presently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Peggy Sue Amison (US/IE) is Artistic Director for East Wing, a platform for photography founded in Doha, Qatar. As a curator, strategist, mentor, photographic consultant and writer, Amison has collaborated with numerous emerging and established photographers, festivals and publications internationally in Europe, China, the United States, and the United Arab Emirites. She is originally from San Diego, California, and holds a BA in Art from San Francisco State University. Prior to her work with East Wing, she was Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh County Cork, Ireland from 2001– 2014. In Transit was initially exhibited at Gallerie Image, Aarhus, Denmark in 2016.

Kristin Cole at Uncorked Studios
2018-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Uncorked Studios, 811 SE Stark St. #300, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
Kristin Cole, 45 Reasons Why
Opening Reception | Nov. 2, 2018 (by RSVP) 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Public Viewing | Nov. 3 – 4, 2018 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Uncorked Studios
811 SE Stark St. #300, Portland OR 97214
503-610-8052
www.uncorkedstudios.com
“Seeking: Anyone willing to be photographed with an object of their choice that represents an idea, belief, value, or right threatened under the current administration.” That was my call to the community recently asking for participants in this artivist (art + activism) project. The idea for this project was sparked on the day Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The anger I felt was not born from the shock of what happened, but that I had already concluded it would happen. In that moment it seemed like there was no limit to the lows the Trump administration would go to carry out their agenda and drove home the fact that the mid-term election is really the only hope those of us who care for the human rights of all have at preventing another two-years of this kind of nonsense. We, unfortunately, spend each day cherry-picking the issues we are disgusted with, whether it be separating families at the border, climate change denial, assault weapons, access to health care, reproductive rights, or sexual assault, to name a few. What I wanted to explore in this project was what happens when we put all the various concerns that people carry with them in one place at one time. My fear is that people have lost hope that anything can be done to stop this—that perhaps we are losing faith that our voices matter. When we spend too much time examining one issue at a time, we lose sight of the bigger picture and the magnitude of what we all collectively stand to lose if we stop protesting. If we stop running for office. If we stop voting. I hope this exhibit shines a light that does not cast shadows and inspires people to use their one voice on 11.06.18 and beyond to help protect all of ours.
www.KristinColePhotography.com

Lisa Bauso at UnionKnott Gallery
2018-11-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Union Knott, 2726 MLK JR.Blvd, Portland, OR, 97212, United States
Lisa Bauso, Italy: The South
November 2nd – 30th, 2018
Opening: First Friday, Nov. 2nd, 6-9 pm
Also: Nov. 17 7pm: La Dolce Vita celebration
UnionKnott
2726 MLK Blvd
Portland, Oregon
Nationally exhibited photographer Lisa Bauso announces a new show of photographic work from Southern Italy. Lisa Bauso is best know for her street photography documenting ordinary people and places during extended travel. With roots based in photojournalism and a dedication to the snapshot esthetic she attempts to reveal a universal humanity.
The work on display, opening NOV. 2, at Union Knott Gallery 2726 MLK Blvd, Portland, Oregon are large scale black and white images shot throughout southern Italy with the incorporation of color playing cards from the Italian card deck Scopa. Scopa is an ancient card game popular all over Italy and the cards are unique in their beautiful, colorful depiction of the suits, void of numbers. The cards compliment the body of work which uncovers the historic remnants of the region and people with a modern eye.
Contact Information: 503-866-3028 lisabauso2@gmail.com

The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) on the iPhone and iPad
2018-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 | OR
The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) on the iPhone and iPad
Taught by Gregg Kerber (Discover the Light Photography)
Saturday, November 3, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Vancouver, WA (address provided upon registration)
$49 (6-9 students)
$44 (10-12 students)
$39 (13-15 students)
For more information and registration, click the link below:
http://www.discoverthelightphotography.com/workshop/2018_TPE.asp?ID=113
What is TPE?
• Helps you plan outdoor photography shoots in natural light
• It’s a map-centric sun and moon calculator – see how the light will fall on the land, day or night, for any location on earth
• Night mode – plan astro photography shoots (constellations, Milky Way, etc.)
• Line-of-sight analysis – defines your shooting direction and shows the topography along your shooting direction
• Visual search – tells you the exact dates and times when sun or moon will align with your subject
• Maps – view different map types such as Apple or Google Maps
• Time/direction of sun, moon, and galactic center rise/set
• Moon phase and % illumination
• Civil, nautical and astronomical twilight
• Save all your favorite locations
• Golden hour duration
• Crescent moon visibility

#2701 Jānis Miglavs at Camerawork Gallery
2018-11-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Jānis Miglavs, Five Fingers
November 3rd – November 30th, 2018
Artist Talk, Sunday, November 4th, 4PM-5PM (artist reception to follow to 6:30 PM)
Camerawork Gallery
301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227
Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.
9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pm
Free off street parking available, Stair and elevator access
www.TheCameraworkGallery.org
www.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery
503-701-5347
Portland, Oregon commercial photographer Jānis Miglavs notes, “What started in 1999 as a disappointment at seeing one of my images on a billboard has evolved, over time, into the photographic illustrations included in the upcoming Camerawork Gallery exhibition as well as a book.”
Wanting to do more than just make money with his work, Miglavs embarked on an 18-year journey to learn the stories, myths and archetypal dreams from Africa’s most remote tribes. He had learned what Anthropologists and DNA tell us, that we—all modern humans—are distant descendants of Sapiens who walked out of Africa some 60,000 years go.
So he conjectured that these tribes might have distant threads to the primal stories the ancients told around the cooking fire before they left Africa. Could it be, perhaps, our modern religions and beliefs are evolutions of those ancient stories?
After recording the stories, Miglavs needed to take photos for his photographic illustrations. This often resulted in humorous situations. For example, he would ask the Tribal Chief to lay on his bed so Miglavs could photograph him to use in a dream illustration. That would be like asking the Governor to fake like he was sleeping so Miglavs could photograph him for his project. One time, Miglavs had to pay a Shaman a little extra—because the Shaman didn’t want people to think he was dead. Anthropologists tell Miglavs he is the only person to have recorded the stories he’s depicted in his photographic illustrations.
Miglavs’ African adventures included a roaring lion walking by his tent one night, crossing crocodile-filled rivers in a dugout log and when one interpreter said he would kill him if he even accidentally said anything derogatory about the Quran or Muhammad.
One of the most memorable experiences happened when Miglavs asked the elders of a remote tribe in Ethiopia what advice they would give world leaders. These tribal members were remote and many Westerners would even call them primitive. After a long silence, one elder finally said, “Tell them that we are all created by God. No matter what your tribe, no matter what your religion, we all bleed the same color blood.” Then he raised his hand, with his fingers outstretched, to conclude, “We all have five fingers.”
In this age of anxiety and fear of the other, fear of the other’s tribe, ethnicity, political group or religion, Miglavs’ gallery show was totally inspired by that Konso elder’s insightful words: “We all have five fingers.” Miglavs hopes the exhibit will inspire viewers to examine their own beliefs from a different perspective—from the perspective of the Birthplace of Modern Humans. ABOUT THE ARTIST Jānis Miglavs was lucky to have been born. When the Communists invaded Latvia during World War 2, they wanted to kill his father because he owned land. Fortunately, his father escaped and fled with his wife—Jānis’ mom. Jānis was born in a displaced person’s camp.
Eventually, Jānis and his family immigrated to the United States, where he learned English starting the first day of school. After becoming a US citizen, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the UC Berkeley, and a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from California State University at Sacramento.
He taught high school art and photography for 10 years, then spent a year teaching special education teachers all while doing wedding photography every weekend and most nights. After he got married, his wife, Eddi, put her foot down. Choose one career. After a beer or two, he chose photography.
He started in the editorial world working with local newspapers and magazines like National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer and Travel and Leisure. When he had two young boys, he quit traveling to become an advertising and commercial photographer.
Along the way, he wrote, photographed and created videos for a long list of winery clients and publications like Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, Sommelier Journal, Oregon Wine Press, Outdoor Photographer and a variety of travel magazines. He wrote and photographed three wine-related books, which won numerous awards, including Gold medals and Best in the World.
In addition to this tasty winery work, in 1999 Jānis started a major personal project in the Birthplace of Modern Humans. For this he traveled to and interviewed the elders, shamans, witchdoctors, storytellers, and chiefs of Africa’s most remote tribes about their myths and archetypal dreams. For all but one of the tribes, he is the only person to have ever documented their oral stories—from which he creates interpretive photographic illustrations of the stories he heard.
While the illustration work has been displayed on a limited basis, including at the United Nations headquarters, Jānis feels the time is right to get the work and message he learned in Africa out.
www.jmiglavs.com
www.FiveFingersProject.org

Harry B. Houchins at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2018-11-10 15:00 - 18:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
Harry B. Houchins, Oregon Aspects, In the Antiquarian Avant-garde Manner
The show runs from November 10th through January 10th.
An reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, November 10th from 3-6 pm.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste. B
Eugene, OR 97405
(541) 729-3572
Open weekdays, call to be sure we’re open.
waltobrien1945@gmail.com
http://obrienimaging.com/gallery.htm
Antiquarian Avant-garde is a term coined in 2002 with the publication of a book of photographs
done in processes from the 19th century. Like me, they enjoy the craft of making their own emulsions and
creating photographs that require time and technique to produce what becomes unique imagery.
The medium I’ve chosen for these particular works is platinum/palladium.
The platinum/palladium process produces a rich and extended range of tones in a print that is considered
by some as the most archival and beautiful of all the photographic processes.
I invite the viewer to make his or her own decision.
http://www.alternativephotography.com/harry-b-houchins/
