Luke Olsen Photography

Anton Gautama at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-08-03 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Anton Gautama, Home Sweet Home
August 1 – September 1, 2019First Thursday opening reception: August 1, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk with Anton Gautama: Saturday, August 3, 3:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
What is a home? To many Chinese-Indonesians, home is not simply a structure—it is physical evidence of their aspirations, struggles, and love.
While photographing for his first book, Pabean Passage, Anton Gautama grew fascinated by the blend of Chinese and Indonesian cultures he found inside the homes of East Java. Born as a third-generation Chinese-Indonesian, Gautama felt the “air of familiarity” of his own upbringing reflected in front of him and he became inspired to document and explore this shared cultural heritage.
“There is a story in each frame, hopes and dreams embedded and encrypted beneath the layers ofobjects that fill the space,” he says. “They tell the stories about love, opportunities, challenges, laughter, and tears of those who have called them home.”
Anton Gautama was born in 1969 in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. He is currently based in Surabaya, where he works professionally as a documentary photographer. Gautama earned a Master’s in Business Administration from Hawaii Pacific University. His photographs have been featured in online and print magazines, including LensCulture and National Geographic. Gautama’s work has also been shown in solo exhibitions at the Goethe Institute in Jakarta, and at the Indonesian Institute of Art in Jogjakarta.

The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier panel discussion at the Portland Art Museum
2019-08-04 14:00 - 15:30 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Panel Discussion: Sun, Shadows, Stone: The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier
Sunday, August 4, 2PMWhitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum1219 SW Park AvenuePortland, OR 97205503-226-2811portlandartmuseum.org
Free for museum members, or included with museum admission for guestsTickets ($20) may be reserved on site or online:https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/panel-discussion-the-photography-of-terry-toedtemeier/?instance_id=30759
Celebrate the final day of the exhibition Sun, Shadows, Stone: The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier with a discussion of Toedtemeier’s significant contributions to the field of American landscape photography. Panelists will also consider his meaningful curatorial legacy that continues to influence the Museum’s photography collection and exhibition program.
Panelists:Rock Hushka, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Tacoma Art MuseumJulia Dolan, The Minor White Curator of Photography, Portland Art MuseumToby Jurovics, Chief Curator and Holland Curator of American Western Art, Joslyn Art Museum, OmahaSandra Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtPrudence Roberts, art historian, Toedtemeier’s spouse, recently retired Professor of Art History and the Director of the Helzer Art Gallery, Portland Community College, and former Curator of American Art, Portland Art Museum
Sponsored by The Kinsman Foundation

Harley Cowan at Camerawork Gallery
2019-08-09 18:30 - 19:30 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Harley Cowan, The Manhattan Project
August 3 – August 30, 2019Artist Talk, Friday, August 9, 6:30pm-7:30pm Reception following 7:30pm-8:30pm
Camerawork Gallery301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pmFree off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44www.TheCameraworkGallery.orgwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery503-701-5347Event is free and open to the public
Portland, Oregon photographer Harley Cowan notes, “I travel to historically significant but largely unrecorded sites throughout the Pacific Northwest to interpret and record architectural and engineering heritage with a large format camera. For the past century, this has been the traditional tool for making architectural photography because it allows for in-camera perspective correction, its sheet film provides greater resolution than any other source, and it remains the only way to satisfy a 500-year archival standard required by the Library of Congress.
“There was a time when photographers established themselves with work produced for a private or federal documentation program such as the Farm Security Administration or Works Progress Administration. Unlike other New Deal programs following the Great Depression, there are three federal documentation programs which are on-going and active today. They continue to follow strict guidelines for black & white, large format, film photography. The Historic American Buildings Survey was established in 1933 as a joint venture between the National Park Service, the American Institute of Architects, and the Library of Congress as a way preserve American built history. Historic American Engineering Record was added in 1969 to record American industry and infrastructure. The Historic American Landscapes Survey was created in 2000. As a contemporary photographer, I believe early practice within these programs provides a valuable foundation upon which to build.“I grew up in Richland, Washington next to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. B Reactor, brainchild of physicist Enrico Fermi, completed in 1944 as part of the Manhattan Project, was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor which produced plutonium for the Trinity Test at Los Alamos, New Mexico and the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Arguably the greatest engineering feat of the 20th Century, and the most terrible, a Promethean altar of science, it has long held a fascination. Photo documentation first began in 2017, when I was granted a research fellowship and four days of access to the Hanford Reservation and B Reactor.”
Harley Cowan is a photographer based in Portland, Oregon. He is a Richland, Washington native. He is also a practicing architect. His interest in large format photography led to a research fellowship in heritage documentation and preservation with work in the Library of Congress. Earlier this year, Cowan was inducted into the Atomic Photographers Guild, an international collective of photographers founded in 1987, dedicated to making visible all aspects of the nuclear age. He is its 38th member.
Cowan won the 2018 Access Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. He was a speaker for the 2018 Photography Council’s Brown Bag Lecture Series at the Portland Art Museum. He has lectured before University of Oregon’s Historic Preservation Program, DoCoMoMo Oregon, the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School, and the Society of Architectural Historians at their 2017 conference in Victoria, B.C. In September of 2018, he was the Artist-in-Residence at Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve.
His work is published in SAH Archipedia, an online encyclopedia of historic sites by the Society of Architectural Historians, and in print with the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation quarterly magazine This Place, Washington State University’s alumni quarterly Washington State Magazine, and the Atomic Heritage Foundation’s publication A Guide to the Manhattan Project in Washington State. His photography has been the subject of articles by the Portland Business Tribune and the Tri-City Herald.
He worked with the National Park Service to create a solo exhibition titled “Architecture of the Manhattan Project” currently on display at the Olive Gallery at the Manhattan Project National Historical Park visitor center at Hanford. His Manhattan Project portfolio was the subject of a solo photography exhibition on the 75th anniversary of the Manhattan Project at Allied Arts / Gallery at the Park in Richland, Washington. It was featured in the 2018-19 Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers at Blue Sky Gallery and Center for the Photographic Arts in Portland, Oregon and a finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass. Juries selected photographs for representation in the “Life In Analog” national exhibition of film photography at Fort Works Art in Fort Worth, Texas, the “Lyceum Portland” group show of silver gelatin and alternative process prints at Jailhouse Studios in Portland, Oregon, and the “PDX 30” group show at LightBox Gallery in Astoria, Oregon.
A graduate of Washington State University, for eight years, Cowan was a member of the Professional Advisory Board for its School of Design & Construction. Early in his career, he spent six years working in nuclear industry. His studies also took him to Far Eastern State Technical University in Vladivostok, Russia where he was the first and only western student to attend.

Extending Tradition 2 at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2019-08-10 17:00 - 20:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Extending Tradition 2
August 10 – September 10, 2019Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, August 10, 5-8pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery1045 Marine Dr.Astoria, OR 97103(503) 468-0238lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery will host the artists’ opening reception of Extending Tradition 2 on Saturday, August 10th, from 5-8pm. Thirty-six photographers will show work in this exhibit celebrating the traditional approach and beauty of large format film photography.

Congratulations to the Photographers of Extending Tradition 2
Ritch Winokur • Rory Earnshaw • Patrick Whitaker • Walt O’BrienRonald Butler • Jason Biehner • Ray Bidegain • Tom CaplesJoseph Deiss • Ryan Gillespie • Rich Bergeman • Jim FitzgeraldSusan Huber • Domenico Foschi • Mat Hughes • Jan BecketChristoph Kapeller • Gene Tonry • Denise Ross • Donald McDonaldHolden Richards • Gary Samson • Greg Roth • David King Rowe IVTerry Thompson • Brian C. Winters • Tyler Boley • Shannon StoneyRay Van Ness • Rosemary Jesionowski • Jim Kipfer • Brian SpiesKelly James • Karey Walter • Dan McCormack • Steven Ballinger
In Extending Tradition 2 LightBox celebrates the work of photographers shooting with large format film or plates, generally 4 x 5 inches and larger, giving recognition to those whose interest and talent follow the masterful path of traditional large format film photography. This is the second time LightBox features the work of photographers using the traditional tools and methods from the early days of photography. These photographers find reward in the practice and their work method is disciplined and results in distinctively unique photographs. The Exhibit includes many styles of imagery and prints in many processes from Pigment Ink to all analog processes, such as Silver Gelatin and other varied Alternative Processes.
LightBox was honored to have Stu Levy as juror for the exhibit. Stu Levy was one of the founders of the Photography Council of the Portland Art Museum and was the Council President from 2003 to 2006. He is also on the Board of Directors of Photolucida and the Pacific Northwest Photographers Archive. Stu studied with Ansel Adams and was an assistant instructor for Ansel’s worksops in Yosemite and Carmel, and also taught at the Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops. Stu lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches photography workshops on the Oregon Coast.
“Extending Tradition 2” will be on display in the gallery through September 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.

Gregory Sullivan at Pushdot Studio
2019-08-12 08:30 - 17:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Gregory Sullivan, Pollution of Night
Open/Close: Now – September 27th, 2019
Pushdot Studio2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104 (in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street)Portland, OR 97202503.224.5925 www.pushdotstudio.comMon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
“Pollution of Night” is series of images from Gregory Sullivan’s recent exploration of the light that illuminates a city at night. In it he examines the interaction of different light types, color temperatures and intensities throughout light industrial areas of Portland, OR. This mixture contributes to the ‘glow’ of the city. Light pollution functions to safeguard people and property and allows for safer navigation of cities at night. But as a consequence, it also blocks out the night sky and further distances us from the natural world. An experienced outdoor photographer, in this series Greg applies his landscape aesthetic to abandoned cityscapes to stunning result.
Gregory Sullivan is a Portland, OR based photographer. He began studying photography in 1990 at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA and subsequently earned his AA in Photography from Mt. Hood Community College in Portland, OR. He has had solo exhibitions in California and Oregon. In 2018 he self-published a magazine, also titled “Pollution of Night,” featuring images from this series.

Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman at the Portland Art Museum
2019-08-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman, Still Wet from the Cocoon…Photographic Collaboration as Ecosystem
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’sBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019, Noon – 1pm
Portland Art MuseumThe Miller Gallery, Mark Building1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205www.portlandartmuseum.org503 226 2811Cost: Free to the public (people are welcome to bring their lunch)
Collaborators Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman weave history, myth and popular culture into photographic narratives that investigate human experience and explore the physical and social landscape. Their collaboration is an ongoing conversation that began in the late 1970s when the two artists met as students at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois. They share a studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where they continue to develop projects that probe interdependent and mutable narratives.
Ciurej and Lochman exhibit widely nationally and internationally with work currently on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Collaborative artwork is in private and public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Milwaukee Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum and the Yale Center for British Art.

Vera Saltzman at Camerawork Gallery
2019-08-31 09:00 - 18:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Vera Saltzman, O Human Child
August 31st – September 27th, 2019
Camerawork Gallery301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pmFree off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44www.TheCameraworkGallery.orgwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery503-701-5347Event is free and open to the public
Award winning Canadian photographer, Vera Saltzman, notes, “My impetus for the series “O Human Child” came out of a desire to better understand the place I currently find myself, rural Saskatchewan. I turned to W.O. Mitchell’s 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, hoping his words would help me gain a sense of the Saskatchewan identity. Through stories of everyday events, Mitchell writes of a young boy trying to make sense of life, death, and God and addressing universal themes in an authentic Canadian “prairie voice”.
“As I read Mitchell’s novel I began to question what life is like for children living in small prairie communities today. How do community and landscape shape their personal identity and sense of place? In a time when the online world has opened up for communication, learning, and entertainment, when family farms morph into commercial operations, and rural communities shrink with migration to urban areas, how will their childhood landscape impact them as adults?”
Her exhibit, “O Human Child” showcases portraits of children who live in rural Saskatchewan of a similar age (between ages 4 and 11) to those in Who Has Seen the Wind. The children are photographed in their own environments: in small towns or rural communities, on First Nations Territory and farms. In creating this series, Saltzman is taking a contemporary look at children growing up in rural Saskatchewan, considering how the tensions and complexities of childhood today both contrast and mirror those of Mitchell’s time.
Saltzman’s technique for posing her subjects was to recall historical portraits of unsmiling children—perhaps news or social documentary portraits—taken in austere situations. The children are looking directly into the camera, clear eyed, and invite the viewer to reflect on the issues today’s youth grapple with in rural Saskatchewan. Vera describes one scene where Kennedi is standing in front of the town school that has been closed due to low enrolment figures, and it’s perhaps this—her sparse environment and lack of opportunity, her navigation from a child in the moment to a young lass who must think about her future—that defines this stoic defiance. It’s a beautiful portrait, celebrating the strength of youth, but not without melancholia, for which the black and white treatment is a perfect metaphor. Life marches on relentlessly, but progress can seem to be stagnant sometimes.” * *Life Framer, Photography Platform and Awards www.life-framer.com/youthhood2018/
The title of the exhibition comes from the refrain of the 1886 W.B. Yeats poem “The Stolen Child”. The poem is about the fairy tales we tell children to shield them from the harshness of the world—in this case the loss of a younger sibling.
Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Canadian photographer Vera Saltzman focuses her attention on issues of identity and the development of a “sense of place,” the passage of time, and the fragility of life. She currently lives in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan.
Saltzman received two Applied Arts Awards for creative excellence. Her series “O Human Child” was a finalist for the internationally recognized Julia Margaret Cameron Award and a Top 200 Finalist in the Photolucidia Critical Mass Awards. Images from the series have been shown at the 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain and at The Fence 2018, Calgary, Canada. Also, from the series the image Samuel is currently touring with the Fotofilmic18 Exhibition to Vancouver, Los Angeles and South Korea.
Her images have been published regionally, nationally and internationally including Ottawa Magazine, Black & White Photography Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Photo Life, Seites, The Hand and Shots. The Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design selected her work for their Top 100 publication. Her work has also been included in a number of online sites including Lenscratch, The Atlantic and Square Magazine. Saltzman’s works are part of the permanent collections of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Art Gallery of Moose Jaw and Canada’s capital city of Ottawa. Vera Saltzman is represented by Slate Fine Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Jennifer Thoreson at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-09-05 17:00 - 18:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Jennifer Thoreson, Testament
September 5–29, 2019First Thursday opening reception: September 5, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk with Jennifer Thoreson: Thursday, September 5, 5:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
“I like to know and feel the moment where people fall apart, and saturate my work in it. I am seeking the moment of relief, and relishing in the moments just before it occurs.”
Jennifer Thoreson’s series Testament is an exploration of resilience, dependency, the burdens we carry as human beings, and the yearning for release. Set in a house that Thoreson rented for a year, the images manifest psychological struggles as vast, crawling sculptural masses, which the artist fabricated using materials such as wool, linen, clay, and human hair. Conceived through a spiritual lens, the photographs borrow symbolic language from the Bible. They take particular inspiration from Matthew 11:28, a verse that reads: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
The content of Thoreson’s images reflects her curiosity about human nature. She states, “I am attracted to vulnerability, to peeling back a skin that reveals something precious, dark, and tender. I am drawn to moments where people are on an edge, barely laced together, befriending disaster, remembering something, or exposing something.”
Jennfer Thoreson is a photographer and installation artist currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her artistic process includes fabricating abstract objects, arranging architectural spaces, and staging furnishings and models to create deeply personal and engaging pieces. Thoreson plays many roles, including photographer, teacher, lecturer, and mother. Her work has been shown in collections both nationally and internationally. Through her art, she invites the viewer into a process of self-renewal as she explores the intricacies of human relationships and the ways that brokenness can give way to redemption and healing.

Michael Z. Taylor at University of Oregon Law School Gallery
2019-09-05 17:00 - 18:30 | University of Oregon School of Law, 1515 Agate St., Eugene, OR, 97403, United States
Michael Z. Taylor, Places and Things: A Road Trip
August 23, 2019 to January 3, 2020Reception: Thursday, Sept 5, 2019 – 5-6:30 pm
University of Oregon Law School Gallery (2d floor)1515 Agate St., Eugene, OR 97403Open 9 am to 8 pm
“Places and Things: A Road Trip” takes viewers on a journey from Oregon to Minnesota and captures the “charm” and the “mystery” of everyday America. The exhibit includes 30 color landscape photographs by local Eugene photographer Michael Z. Taylor at the UO School of Law.
Taylor’s photography is often inspired by his motorcycle travels across the Western states. For more than thirty years, he has immersed himself in sights, sounds, smell and touch of the country’s frontier.
“There is nothing more immediate about a place than its first impression,” said Taylor. “The expansiveness, the colors its unassuming nature – it all fascinates me.”
A public reception with the photographer will be held on Thursday, September 5 from 5 -6:30 pm.

Josh Smith at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-09-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Josh Smith, The First Years
September 5–29, 2019First Thursday opening reception: September 5, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk with Josh Smith: Friday, September 6, 12:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
Josh Smith documents the changes—both monumental and subtle, internal and external, and positive and negative—that come with parenthood in his series The First Years. Acting as a “family historian,” he uses photography as a tool to examine a new way of being and to explore the many contradictions that can exist within a family. Smith’s intimate black-and-white photos of his wife and two sons “serve as place markers for intangible moments of elation, fear, and confusion.”
“The unremitting demands of parenthood contained joy, tenderness, vulnerability, frustration, and fear all at once. The weight of being fully needed by our children afforded us a sense of purpose, but also denied us our autonomy and individuality. As we worked to understand our intricate new roles as parents, our relationship shifted, resulting in a new connection, but also a sense of estrangement.”
Josh Smith was born in Springfield, Missouri. He earned his MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, and has been living and working in the Bay Area since 2004. Throughout his career he has explored various photographic projects, with his most recent being a body of work exploring the dynamics of family. Smith has exhibited widely within the Bay Area and beyond, including at Stanford University, the a.Muse gallery in San Francisco, and SF Art Market. Smith is a photography instructor at Marin Academy and resides in Pacifica, California with his wife and two sons.

Philip Bowser at Cafe Eleven
2019-09-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Cafe Eleven, 435 NE Rosa Parks Way, Portland, OR, 97211, United States
Philip Bowser, Mood Lighting
September 7th – September 30th, 2019Opening Reception: September 7th, 1 – 3pm
Cafe Eleven435 NE Rosa Parks WayPortland, OR 97211 (about a block East of the intersection of Rosa Parks and 99E)
Cafe Eleven, a Portland coffee shop that regularly features works by local artists, will show a series of photographs from Philip Bowser’s “Mood Lighting” series during the month of September, 2019. These photographs feature qualities of light that set a mood or induce feelings, which minimizes the importance of the object illuminated. The series was recently seen in the Portland Photographers Forum Community Drawer in the Park blocks, and portions of the series have been on display at the ASmith gallery in Johnson City, Texas, the Black Box gallery in Portland, and the Lakewood Arts Festival in Lake Oswego. An opening reception will be held from 1~3pm on 9/7/2019 at the cafe on 435 NE Rosa Parks Way, Portland, OR 97211. (It’s about a block East of the intersection of Rosa Parks and 99E.) Please stop by to chat with the artist over coffee and snacks. For more information prior to the reception, contact the artist at philbowsr@gmail.com. During the show, direct inquiries to FallInLoveWithArt@gmail.com.

Rich Bergeman at Grants Pass Museum of Art
2019-09-07 13:30 - 14:30 | Grants Pass Museum of Art, 229 SW G Street, Grants Pass, OR, 97528, United States
Rich Bergeman, The Land Remembers
Aug. 2 Sept. 13, 2019Opening reception Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-9pmFirst Friday Live Reception, Sept. 6 from 5-9pmGallery Talk, Saturday, Sept. 7, at 1:30pm
Grants Pass Museum of Art229 SW G StreetGrants Pass, OR 97528https://www.gpmuseum.com/541-479-3290Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm
In “The Land Remembers,” Corvallis photographer Rich Bergeman revisits the terrain of Southern Oregon’s Rogue River Wars of 1851-56 and retells the story through a series of 35 black-and-white infrared photographs.
Despite being one of the bloodiest and longest-running of Oregon’s Indian conflicts, the Rogue River Wars are largely forgotten today. Fighting between local tribes and incoming miners and settlers festered and flared up multiple times between 1851 and 1854 before erupting into all out war involving the U.S. Army in 1855-56. It ended with the forced removal of the Rogue Valley and South Coast tribes to reservations at Siletz and Grand Ronde, in what descendants today memorialize as Oregon’s own “Trail of Tears.
Rather than document exact sites from the war years, Bergeman said his goal was “to bring the historic conflict back into our collective consciousness through a reflective study of the landscape that played host to such tragic events over 160 years ago.”
An Oregonian since 1976, Bergeman is a retired instructor of journalism and photography for Linn-Benton Community College in Albany. The 70-year-old photographer has been exhibiting his work at various venues in the Northwest and beyond 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 photographic portfolios can be seen at richbergeman.zenfolio.com, and in book form at blurb.com

The LightBox Alternative Process Symposium at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2019-09-13 08:00 - 17:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
The LightBox Alternative Process Symposium
September 13 – September 15, 2019
LightBox Photographic Gallery1045 Marine Dr.Astoria, OR 97103(503) 468-0238lightbox-photographic.comhttp://lightbox-photographic.com/generic/2019_lightbox_symposium_for_alternative_processSymposium fees $150 plus $25 per Demo
The LightBox Symposium for Alternative Process Photography is a celebration of the myriad of methods photographers have revived from the history of photography. In September LightBox will dedicate a weekend to celebrate these photographic arts with some of the most passionate representatives and practicing artists working with the alternative photographic processes.
LightBox will present an incredible group of Alternative Process Photographers in the LightBox Symposium for Alternative Process Photography on September 13, 14 and 15th. We welcome our keynote Speaker Christina Z. Anderson as well as Alt Process photographers Jim Fitzgerald, Karen Hymer, Denise Ross, and Michael Puff. Each will be speaking and performing detailed demonstrations of their processes. See the Webpage for all the details. We invite you to join us and be part of a very special weekend!
The participants in the audience will be what truly makes this weekend special, as the social opportunity of meeting and sharing with others is one of the lasting rewards that we hope will happen. We know the weekend will be special and hope you will make the effort to attend. We are hosting this symposium at Alderbrook Station, a historical 115 year old net shed on the banks of the Columbia River in the heart of Astoria, making for a perfect natural setting for an enjoyable and unique weekend together.
We invite you to be part of the event.http://lightbox-photographic.com/generic/2019_lightbox_symposium_for_alternative_process
The theme of this years Symposium is Alternative Visions!How does your artistic vision require use of alternative processes?This years Symposium features a juried Alt Process exhibit “Alternative Visions”:showing at LightBox from September 14 – November 5, 2019Juried by our Keynote Speaker, Christina Z. Anderson
We are very honored to bring this amazing group of artists and technicians to LightBox in Astoria for a full weekend of alternative process photography sharing, learning, networking and fun with alternative process photographers from around the nation. This symposium is for the beginner and the advanced photographer interested in learning about alternative printing processes. We have planned a full weekend of gatherings, show openings, talks, demonstrations and opportunities to share your work with others. Bring your Alternative Process prints to display and share with attendees. A great opportunity to meet, share and learn from your peers from around the country.
Sign up for the Symposium by contacting michael@lightbox-photographic.com

The O'Brien Gallery Platinum/Palladium Students Clothesline Show at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2019-09-14 16:00 - 18:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
The O’Brien Gallery Platinum/Palladium Students Clothesline ShowStudents Platinum/Palladium Clothesline Show
September 14 – November 7, 2019Reception will be held on Saturday September 14 from 4-6 pm.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery2833 Willamette, Ste. BEugene, OR 97405phone: 541 729 3572Open Tuesday – Friday from 1-5 pm. Call to be sure we’re open.email: waltobrien1945@gmail.com.website: https://www.waltobrien.net/the-o-brien-photo-gallery
Walt O’Brien provided a one day introduction to the Platinum/Palladium printing process. Students made prints from their files using their own images with platinum/palladium materials.Image sources were unlimited (cell phone to large format camera).
Students learned coating emulsions, contrast control, exposure and the process for this modified 19th century printing method. The class included 2-3 digital negatives size up to 5×7 made by Walt at least three days ahead of the class. Students were involved in the creation of the negatives.
Everyone who prints platinum uses a personalized method. This is due to reactions to variables both atmospheric and chemical. Walt did not claim to be an authority on the process, since the he was relatively new to printing with this method. Instead it was a learning experience for both the students and the instructor. At the end of the day each student left with at least one or more satisfactory prints.
One side of the gallery will have a clothesline strung with loose prints hanging by clothespins. The gallery will also have a few framed prints by other professional printers and some framed prints by students.

Alternative Visions Exhibit at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2019-09-14 17:00 - 20:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Alternative Visions Exhibit
September 14 – November 5, 2019Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14, 5-8pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery1045 Marine Dr.Astoria, OR 97103(503) 468-0238lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery opens Alternative Visions with an artists’ reception on Saturday, September 14, 2019 from 5-8pm. The prints in Alternative Visions represent a large variety of processes, ranging from cyanotype, gum, platinum/palladium, silver gelatin, Van Dyke brown, carbon transfer, photogravure, wet plate, tintype, ambrotype, lith, casein, chemigram, lumenprint, and wet plate collodion. The handmade print, taken into so many directions, is obviously alive and well.
We are honored to have Christina Z. Anderson, one of the nations’ finest photographic educators as juror for this Exhibit and keynote Speaker of the Symposium
“The alternative process “movement” which began around the 1960s was largely a return to 19th century hand coated processes as an alternative to corporately controlled gelatin silver paper. Today there has been a conflation of gelatin silver, C-prints, 19th century processes, and printmaking into the alternative process genre. Even digital means of image capture are now a part of this practice with some processes such as image transfer or palladium over ink jet which use digital printing in part. The hallmark of the field is that the end result is a hands-on, handmade print.” ~ Christina Z. Anderson
Congratulations to the photographers accepted into Alternative Visions
Michael Atha • Ray Bidegain • Per Bjesse • Diana BloomfieldJulia Bradshaw • Greg Brophy • Ronald Butler • Kimberley ChiarisMonika Danos • Leah Diament • John Dubois • Rory EarnshawChristopher Erin • Jim Fitzgerald • László Galos • Ryan GillespieAndrej Gregov • Sarah Grew • Patricia Holgate • Suzanne IzzoKaren Johanson • Barbara Justice • Sally Kim-Miller • Douglas KingTravis Lovell • Jocelyn Mathewes • Marek Matusz • Julie MooreHarini Krishnamurthy • Susie Morrill • Barbara Murray • Angel O’BrienWalt O’Brien • Ralph Rinke • Philip Schwartz • Jennifer Gioffre ToddAjuan Song • Michael Puff • Melanie Walker • Laura Alice WattTri Tran • Rebecca Zeiss • Yelena Zhavoronkova • Ryan Zoghlin
The Alternative Visions Exhibit is part of the 2019 LightBox Symposium for Alternative Process Photography,(click on link) hosted by LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon on September 13, 14, 15, 2019.
Alternative Visions runs from September 14th until November 5th. LightBox offers memberships as a way of becoming part of the community of supporters that help to further the mission of the gallery. LightBox provides fine art reproduction, restorations, photographic printing, and other photographic services. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11 – 5:30. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or at info@lightbox-photographic.com, and visit lightbox-photographic.com for more info and to enjoy past, current and upcoming exhibits.

Angel O’Brien at the Portland Art Museum
2019-09-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Angel O’Brien, Rowing to Eden
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’sBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, September 18th, 2019, Noon – 1pm
Portland Art MuseumThe Miller Gallery, Mark Building1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205www.portlandartmuseum.org503 226 2811Cost: Free to the public (people are welcome to bring their lunch)
Angel O’Brien will be talking about her recent work from Prague, Budapest, San Francisco and Portland, as well as the liberation of finally finding her voice 24 years after picking up her first camera.
Local photographer Angel O’Brien works with experimental and alternative processes to create the often surreal and layered self-portrait montages for which she is well known. Her love of photography began in 1994 when she was in high school: She spent many a day wandering Portland with her Cambo 5×7, shooting this city’s architecture, spending even more evenings in her bathroom-turned-darkroom making black-and-white contact prints. Angel’s hands haven’t been far from a camera since, and she currently works with 35mm, twin lens, pinhole, and large format cameras. Although she mainly kept to monochrome processes in the past, she experimented with cross-processing slide film and fell in love with the off kilter colors she saw in her photographs. She continues with this method today.
A few years ago, out of frustration with not being able to make the photographs that she had in her head, Angel began to experiment with photo transfers, creating a lot of crazy (and mostly bad) work. She then learned platinum-palladium printing from Ray Bidegain and gum bichromate printing from Christina Z. Anderson. She finally had the tools she needed to be able to manifest the photography that she’d always been trying to make. A solo trip to Prague and Budapest provided the time and mental space to discover how to turn her crazy life into the handmade platinum/gum (self) portraits that she is recognized for today.
Angel’s work has been exhibited on both coasts and in Europe, and is either currently or soon-to-be exhibited at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, the Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, and the Albatross Gallery in Gold Hill, Oregon. She’s recently been selected for the Critical Mass Top 200 for work from her series The Distance of Forgetting.
When she isn’t making photography or writing poetry, she is often making other kinds of art with her eight-year-old, Gwendolyn, or eating too many chocolate ice cream cones, pondering the chaos of her universe.

Marcia Connolly & Katherine Knight at Studio 385
2019-09-27 18:30 - 20:00 | Studio 385, 385 West 2nd Ave at Lawrence St., Eugene, OR, 97401, United States
Marcia Connolly & Katherine Knight, Spring & Arnaud: Art, Love, MortalityPhotography at Oregon, Last Friday Movie Night
Friday September 27thDoors open 6:30. Movie starts 7:00
Studio 385385 West 2nd Ave at Lawrence St.Eugene, Or 97401541-686-1240Admission: Open to the public and by fee-will donation
Spring & Arnaud: Art, Love, MortalityBy Marcia Connolly &Katherine Knight[67m/1h7m]
Together more than 25 years, Spring Hurlbut and Arnaud Maggs lived an artful and art-filled life until Maggs’s death at 86 last year. While Oscar Wilde may have put his talent into his art and saved his genius for the living, these two souls in communion, born 26 years apart, appear not to have stinted on either. Shot in the months leading up to Maggs’s death, the film, as its title more than suggests, is an elegiacally inflected love story between equals, the co-directors never privileging one artist’s oeuvre or sensibility over the other’s. Mostly it’s just Arnaud and Spring, looking, talking, not talking, gesturing, at their cottage in France, their home and studios in Toronto, a flea market, the National Gallery in Ottawa. Affectionate and respectful, it’s also gorgeous to look at.
REVIEW BY JAMES ADAMSPUBLISHED APRIL 22, 2013 UPDATED JUNE 19, 2017

Karen Klinedinst at Camerawork Gallery
2019-09-28 09:00 - 18:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Karen Klinedinst, The Emotional Landscape
September 28 – October 25, 2019
Camerawork Gallery301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pmFree off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44, ADA accessiblewww.TheCameraworkGallery.orgwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery503-701-5347Event is free and open to the public
Baltimore, Maryland photographer, Karen Klinedinst notes, “All of us have a deep connection to certain places. We see these places not as they are but idealize them through our memories. In The Emotional Landscape series, I capture my deep connection to the natural landscape.
“I draw my inspiration from the 19th century landscape painting of The Hudson River School. Like the Hudson River School painters, I interpret the landscape and how it affects me emotionally and spiritually. My approach is not about capturing reality but creating a neo-Romantic world reflective of my memory and imagination.“Walking is an integral part of my creative process and forms my point of view. All of the landscapes in this series were captured while hiking through the natural landscape. The act of walking allows me to experience the nuances of light, weather and time. It forms my conversation and connection with the landscape. Like a painter, I manipulate these images through the layering of textures and colors to express my emotional response to a landscape that exists only in my memory.”
About the Artist Karen Klinedinst is a Baltimore-based artist using photography to explore themes of place, nature and the environment. She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.Her landscapes have been exhibited at Massoni Art Gallery, Fleckenstein Gallery, South x Southeast Photo Gallery, Adkins Arboretum, Maryland Art Place, Soho Photo Gallery, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Biggs Museum of American Art. Her work is in the collection of the National Park Service.
Klinedinst was a 2004 Platte Clove Artist-in-Residence at the Catskills Center for Conservation and Development, and a 2006 National Park Service Artist-in- Residence at Acadia National Park in Maine. In 2015 she was awarded an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council.
She teaches workshops at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University’s Odyssey Program, and at her Baltimore studio.

Astoria Workshops with Joni Kabana
2019-09-28 10:00 - 21:00 | OR
Two Astoria Workshops with Joni Kabana
Workshop #1 September 28, 2019Astoria Walkabout: Capturing Editorial Content: 10am – 3pmLocation: Astoria$100http://jonikabana.com/classes/astoria-walkabout-nighty-light/
This workshop will focus on the creation of editorial photography. Based upon her assignments with magazines and the travel/tourism industry, Joni will help you create photographs that appeal to these organizations. She will review each participant’s goals and set assignments accordingly, ending the workshop with a class review of the day’s work.
Workshop #2September 28, 2019Nighty Light: Nighttime Photography: 5pm – 9pm Location: Astoria$85http://jonikabana.com/classes/astoria-walkabout-nighty-light/
This workshop will focus on photographing in very low light conditions. The class (co-taught with filmmaker and photographer Jeff Daly) will be held in the Astoria Underground where we will play with light in a variety of ways (long exposure, light painting, use of blur, etc.).

Nick Carulli at Visual Expressions Gallery
2019-09-28 18:00 - 22:00 | Visual Expressions Gallery, 2115 SE 192nd Ave. Suite 110, Camas, WA, 98607, United States
Nick Carulli
Reception: Saturday September 28th,2019 6-10 PM
Visual Expressions Gallery2115 SE 192nd Ave. Suite 110 Camas Wa,98607360-210-7393
Nick Carulli, a long time northwest photographer and gallery owner presents his new show of photographic images infused onto aluminum, sizes ranging form 8×10 inches to 40 x 60 inches. These prints are spectacular, with depth and quality of HD television.
Please bring friends and join others in viewing his latest images. Wine and light snacks will be available Please join him for an opening reception on Saturday September 28th,2019 6-10 PM

Pamela Chipman at Art at the Cave
2019-10-04 18:00 - 21:00 | Art at the Cave, 108 E. Evergreen Blvd, Vancouver, WA, 98660, United States
Pamela Chipman, Photography Exhibition and Video Installation
October 4-26, 2019Opening reception: Friday, October 4, 6-9pm
Art at the Cave108 E. Evergreen BlvdVancouver, WA
Artist Pamela Chipman is pleased to announce new works in Photography and, two new video installations at Art at the Cave Gallery in Vancouver, WA, October 4-26, 2019.
Utilizing multiple mediums, Pamela Chipman’s work explores personal identity and human interconnectivity to express inner states of awareness and isolation. Interweaving imagery with language, movement and sound, Inner Voices contemplates the body/mind/spirit connection and specifically how language builds, shapes and dictates memory and our sense of self.
Working in non-linear modalities, Inner Voices creates an immersive experience both intellectual and sensory. In one aspect, motion detection software triggers unique video/audio content of women photographed in silhouette compiled into animations. The silhouettes create a haunting two-dimensional profile that are at once objective and nondiscriminating, and therefore unifying, but speak to issues of domesticity, loneliness, trama, loss and ultimately, reconciled transfiguration through a synthesis of mutual experience.
The voices we hear, reveal intertwining narratives that tune us in to our inner voices and navigate how we move forward through time and backward through memory. These sound elements trigger recollections, emotion, our internal critic, or the mundane thoughts that occupy our everyday minds. While the animations move through space and time – using props to represent identity, power, and grace – the artist reminds us of our shared humanity, of our sensate and often unconscious motivations, and the outer manifestations of our inner state.
In Loose Threads, Chipman enduringly chronicles how easy a life can become unravelled. The artist captures the raw, true story of a young woman emotionally scarred by the psychological oppression of a masculine dominant culture. The story takes place in New York City in the late 1970s, but through this video Chipman illustrates how vulnerable women can be – we’re reminded of the far reaching Me Too Movement – and how little has changed culturally for women who are often left to deal with the results of trauma by themselves, struggling to find their way forward.
Chipman also presents photographs and gilded prints of the images that inspired the Inner Voices video. Each image radiates a luminosity that captures the deliberateness of women-as-subject. We see the subjects as captivating individuals demonstrating their strength, adaptability, and resistance to the adversities that often plague women throughout history. Chipman allows us to contemplate in a more resting fashion these Inner Voices and how the body/mind/spirit connection unites us.
As an interdisciplinary artist, Pamela Chipman draws on the present day cultural experiences of women grappling with sexism and gender inequality. She studied video and photography at UCLA and moved to Portland, Oregon in the late 1980s. Her work has screened across the country in film festivals, galleries, and on community television, and is held in private collections. Throughout her career, Chipman has explored the potential of the video medium through a variety of projects ranging from video-poetry, live television, installations, and documentary projects. She continues to explore new methods of integrating media into our visual world using installation, video books, and public art as tools to reach a broad artistic audience and to activate a sense of fellowship and communita

Blue Sky Ahead: Founders at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-10-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Blue Sky Ahead: FoundersFeaturing photography by Ann Hughes, Christopher Rauschenberg,Craig Hickman, Robert Di Franco, and Terry Toedtemeier
October 3–November 3, 2019First Thursday opening reception: October 3, 6:00–9:00 PM
Panel discussion moderated by Lois Leveen withChristopher Rauschenberg, Craig Hickman,Prudence Roberts, and Robert Di Franco: Saturday, October 5, 1:00 PM
Blue Sky turns 44 years old in October! To celebrate this considerable legacy, Blue Sky is launching Blue Sky Ahead, a two-part exhibition series.
In October, Blue Sky will dedicate both galleries to the current and past photographic work by founders Ann Hughes, Christopher Rauschenberg, Craig Hickman, Robert Di Franco, and Terry Toedtemeier. Please join usin November for the second half of the series—Blue Sky Ahead: Futures—which will highlight the future of photography in Oregon as seen through the eyes of six emerging photographers chosen by Blue Sky’s founders: Ebenezer Galluzzo, Emma Kisiel, Jamila Clarke, Nolan Streitberger, Sam Wrigglesworth, and Troi Anderson.
Ann Hughes was born in 1948 in St. Maries, Idaho, and currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor of Science degree. A photographer and graphic designer, Hughes co-founded Blue Sky Gallery in 1975, where she also exhibited numerous times and regularly designed the legendary exhibitions posters during the early years of the gallery. Her photography can be found in private collections and in the Portland Art Museum’s photography collection.
Christopher Rauschenberg received his BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. His work has been exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography, 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 University in Lake Oswego, Oregon for many years and co-founded Nine Gallery and the photography nonprofit Photolucida in Portland, Oregon, in addition to co-founding Blue Sky Gallery in 1975.
Craig Hickman grew up in the Northwest, where he became friends with fellow Blue Sky cofounders in high school and beyond. Hickman earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington, Seattle. He taught photography at The Evergreen State College and later taught art courses focused on the computer as an art medium at the University of Oregon, where he is now Professor Emeritus after 31 years. He is also the creator of Kid Pix, a computer drawing program for children, which he initially developed for his son, Ben.
Robert Di Franco has been a working artist since 1973. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis. In 1975 he co-founded Blue Sky Gallery. Di Franco has taught photography at Cincinnati Art Academy, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Marylhurst University, and The Evergreen State College. His work has been exhibited at numerous venues nationally and internationally and it is housed in the collections of the French National Archives, The Portland Art Museum, The Rainier Bank Photography Collection, Oregon State Capitol Collection, the Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle Art in Public Places Program, The Washington State Arts Commission, the Portland Metropolitan Arts Commission, and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. In 2015 his photographs were exhibited at the Portland Art Museum in the Blue Sky, The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40 retrospective exhibition.
Lifelong Oregonian Terry Toedtemeier (1947–2008) was a dedicated photographer, photography teacher, and the Portland Art Museum’s first curator of photography. A self-taught photographer who studied geology in college, Toedtemeier began experimenting with the medium during the 1970s, focusing on his friends and colleagues as subjects. By the 1980s he attracted wider critical attention through his landscape images, which were influenced by his deep understanding of both the photography traditions of the American West and the land’s underlying geology. He traveled throughout Oregon, paying particularly close attention to the Columbia River Gorge, the coastline, and the arid southeast, enthralled by the diversity of terrain contained within the state’s borders. Digital and color photographs created shortly before the end of his life demonstrate Toedtemeier’s ever-present willingness to experiment and see anew through the camera’s lens.

Don Jacobson at Oregon Society of Artists
2019-10-14 13:00 - 16:00 | Oregon Society of Artists, 2185 SW Park Place, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Don Jacobson
October 7th – October 24th
Oregon Society of Artists
2185 SW Park Place
Portland, Oregon 97205
503-228-0706
Monday through Saturday, 1 – 4pm
Don Jacobson, www.donjacobsonphoto.com , is one of many photographers showing at the OSA/Portland Photographers’ Forum Collaborative Exhibit. The exhibit runs from October 7 through October 24th. The hours are Monday through Saturday, 1 – 4pm.
OSA welcomes PPF for this joint exhibit. Expect to see photopraphs produced in a myraid of ways – from pinhole and toy cameras to large format view cameras. The work may be digital, traditional color, and black and white, silver, ink jet or platinum.

Mary Virginia Swanson at the Portland Art Museum
2019-10-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Mary Virginia Swanson, – THE LIFE OF A PROJECT – From Concept to Audience
October 15, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Portland Art Museum – Whitsell Auditorium1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205(503) 221-1156Purchase tickets here! $20 – $50students are feehttps://www.asmp.org/oregon/event/maryvirginiaswanson/
When an idea for a project crystallizes and the passion to produce new work consumes us, artists begin a journey unlike any other. Understanding your desired audience and the impact of your project are critical to achieving the expectations and results you desire.
ENSURING the SUCCESS of your next big PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT BEGINS HEREInternationally acclaimed photography consultant, Mary Virginia Swanson, will walk us through recommended steps to ensure your project has the strongest possibility of sponsorship, exhibitions and publications. Topics Include:
• Developing project concept and defining audience.• Identifying / establishing relationships with sponsors, collaborators and venues.• Researching / testing production materials appropriate to desired audience.• Defining marketing strategies to share work in production with industry professionals.• Expand presence to print, web and social media platforms through which to share the project content.
MARY VIRGINIA SWANSON is an educator, author and entrepreneur in the field of photography, and a respected advisor to artists and arts organizations. Unique in our field, her broad background includes exhibiting, collecting, licensing and marketing photographs and affords her a range of perspectives on making and marketing art. Ms. Swanson counts among her consulting clients a range of internationally respected artists and institutions.
Swanson co-authored with Darius Himes the acclaimed Publish Your Photography Book: Revised & Updated (2014) and continues to stay current on the growing market for photobooks, reflecting both the relative ease of self-publishing and the rise of the collectible photographic artists book.
Swanson received the Focus Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography from the Griffin Museum in Boston in 2013, the 2014 Susan Carr Award for Education from the American Society for Media Photographers (ASMP) and was named 2015 Honored Educator by the Society for Photographic Education.Swanson frequently serves as a judge on contemporary photography and photobook competitions, a portfolio reviewer at industry events, presents lectures and conducts workshops on professional practices.Swanson is based in Tucson, AZ, her website is www.mvswanson.com and Instagram feed can be found at @maryvirginiaswanson

Cathy Cheney at the Portland Art Museum
2019-10-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Cathy Cheney, The Art of Photojournalism
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’s
Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019, Noon – 1pm
Portland Art Museum
The Miller Gallery, Mark Building
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
www.portlandartmuseum.org
503 226 2811
Cost: Free to the public (people are welcome to bring their lunch)
I will be talking about developing the eye, capturing the moment, and freezing time: my 41 years as a photojournalist in Portland
Cathy Cheney is an award-winning photographer best known for her work in photojournalism and portraits of people. Born in Connecticut, she came west to attend Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, where she earned her B.P.A. in 1978.
Cheney came to Oregon in 1979 for her first job in Photojournalism. From 1979-1985 she was the photo editor at Willamette Week Newspaper where she gained local and national recognition for her work.
She is currently the staff photographer for the Portland Business Journal, where she faces the daily challenge of finding something unusual in the ordinary.
Her work has appeared in many publications such as Spin Magazine, Pacific Northwest magazine, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Registered Representative, Childs publications and Sierra.
As member of National Press Photographers association, she has been involved in many organizations and galleries over the years. This year Mill Pond Gallery in New York showcased her images of migrants.
Project Day shoot July 15th,1983 was a collaboration with the Oregon Historical Society and Oregon photographers. She was one of the book editors, regional director, as well as photojournalist for the project.
Her work has appeared in many galleries over the years. Homeless in America Project in 1986, Camera Works Gallery 1989, Visual Chronicles of Portland 1990, Project Dayshoot 2013, Lunaria Gallery Guest Artist 2015, and Lake Oswego Arts Council 2018, Mill Pond Gallery 2019.
Cheney is currently on the board of the Portland Art Museum Photo Council.

Blake Andrews at Truckenbrod Gallery
2019-10-17 16:00 - 20:00 | Truckenbrod Gallery, 517 SW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR, 97333, United States
Blake Andrews, Darkroom Pranks
10/2/19 – 11/1/19Soft opening 4-8 pm during Corvallis Art Walk, 10/17/19 (calendar)
Truckenbrod Gallery517 SW 2nd St, Corvallis, OROpen: Wed, 10/9, 12-4 pm Mon, 10/14, 2-6 pm Thurs, 10/17, 4-8 pm Mon, 10/21, 12-4 pm Sat, 10/26, 1-5 pm And by appointmentwww.instagram/com/truckenbrodgallery541-222-0302
With his latest series Darkroom Pranks, Blake Andrews takes a turn into experimental territory. Andrews selected recent 35 mm exposures for enlargement. During the printing process, various domestic objects were used to to photogram odd shapes into the image. The interaction of photogram and photograph is deliberately ambiguous, raising age-old questions about photographic truth, representation, and pranksterism.
www.instagram/com/swerdnaekalb

Photo Club PDX and Rob Woodcox Present: 'The Power WithIn You' 3-Day Workshop
2019-10-18 18:00 - 21:00 | OR
Photo Club PDX and Rob Woodcox, The Power WithIn You
3-Day WorkshopOctober 18-20
Various Locations around Portlandhttps://www.photoclubpdx.com/workshops $300 – $450
During this three day weekend with Rob, you will indulge in inspiration, practice guided lighting and camera techniques, gain vision, master intermediate and advanced editing techniques and perfect your composites. You will have the opportunity to pair these photographic skills with business and social media tips from Rob’s years of online and real-world success. Beginning, intermediate and experienced photographers are welcomed in this course. The course work paired with the vibrant and eclectic energy of Portland, this could mark a powerful change in your journey.
Discover and LEARN.It’s Time for an Adventure! https://www.photoclubpdx.com/workshopsFor those of you on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/497579854331594/

Street Vision at South Santiam Hall Gallery
2019-10-24 17:00 - 18:30 | Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany, OR, 97330, United States
Street VisionPhotographs by Blake Andrews, Lisa Gidley, George Kelly, Gary Gumanow and James Han
Sept. 30 – Nov. 15, 2019Reception and Gallery Talk, Thursday, Oct. 24, 5-6:30 pmSouth Santiam Hall GalleryLinn-Benton Community College6500 SW Pacific Blvd.Albany, OR 97321www.linnbenton.edu/current-students/involvement/art-gallery/541-917-4545Open 8-5 Weekdays
Five Oregon photographers who create art from the fleeting moments of urban life will exhibit their work at Linn-Benton Community College’s South Santiam Hall Gallery, 6500 SW Pacific Blvd., Albany, from Sept. 30 to Nov. 15, 2019.
Eugene photographer Blake Andrews will join Portland photographers Lisa Gidley, George Kelly, Gary Gumanow and James Han in an exhibit that explores the landscape of street photography in the new century.Street photography has enjoyed a global resurgence in popularity over the last two decades, according to guest curator Rich Bergeman, a Corvallis photographer and retired LBCC instructor. He said his goal with the exhibit was to bring contemporary urban photography to the mid-valley, where it’s not often seen or practiced.“Street photography can be controversial in this age of privacy and political correctness,” he said. “But it can also bring us sparkling slices of time–candid, unguarded moments that are ironic, insightful, witty and surrealistic.”
Each of the five photographers in the show gathers his and her pictures from life on the streets, but each captures their art in different ways–some in color, some in black-and-white; some with traditional film cameras, some with iPhones.
Andrews, a well-known photographer in the Eugene area, has been actively photographing for 25 years. He primarily shoots 35mm film, but for this show will be exhibiting colorful images from the Oregon State Fair shot with an iPhone 6 in pano mode.
Gidley, who says she’s been “wandering down various sidewalks with a camera since about 2002,” is showing recent work from New York City. In a break from the street photography tradition of small cameras and black-and-white film, she frequently photographs in color with a bulky medium-format camera.
Kelly also often uses color film and medium-format, but the prints he chose for this show are 35mm black-and-white images taken in Portland, Paris and Los Angeles. He is a self-taught photographer who first took up the camera in 1985.
Gumanow is a native New Yorker who first moved to Portland in 1997, then to Texas, and back to Portland in 2015, and is “happy to be home again.” The work in the LBCC show is from a series of black-and-white images he calls “Houdini Escaping San Francisco.”
Han is comparatively new to photography, having gotten serious about it in 2017, but now he carries a Leica M6 with him every day. He has lived in Portland since 1997, after moving from Seattle to become a mortician.
The South Santiam Hall Gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

Rick Wright at Camerawork Gallery
2019-10-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Rick Wright, Vessels of the Late Petroleum Age: Evidence of Ancient Earth
October 26 – November 29, 2019
Artist Talk: Saturday, October 26: 4pm-5pm
Reception: Saturday, October 26: 5pm-6pm
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, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44, ADA accessible
www.TheCameraworkGallery.org
www.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery
503-701-5347
Event is free and open to the public

Philadelphia photographer Rick Wright inhabits the persona of a c. 4300 CE archaeologist: a scientist stumbling onto a cache of preserved vessels crafted out of an unknown synthetic material. This Dada series of catalogued “artifacts” explores how a future society might interpret contemporary plastic containers. The project is driven by Wright’s creative lens work; the objects taking on new form, expression, and meaning. There are 27 digital photographs (18 on display at Camerawork Gallery) in the collection—printed with tri-tone pigment ink on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper at 12” x 18”.
ABOUT THE ARTIST Rick Wright practices photography as a malleable and sculptural medium, stating “photography suffers the unfortunate condition of looking like reality and remains the first thing to transcend as a photographer.” He trained first as an oil painter at Princeton and Columbia Universities (BA and MFA), then later morphed into a photographer with studies at ICP in NY with Nan Goldin, Susan Meiselas, Dorit Cypis, and Danny Lyon. Wright is a Philadelphia-based photographer working as a fine artist, an architectural photographer, and an instructor.
The Vessels of the Late Petroleum Age are currently featured on the cover of LensWork #144 magazine (Sept.-Oct. 2019); along with a 16-page spread. The work has also appeared online in Float Magazine and garnered a Fleisher Faculty Fellowship Award. Wright is currently working on a book of the series with a professional writer.
Several of his photographs reside in permanent collections: Houston Museum of Fine Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Creon Collection, Johnson & Johnson Collection, and The University of Pennsylvania. Wright keeps his studio in Philadelphia (past 13 years) and teaches photography at Fleisher Art Memorial, Peter’s Valley School of Art & Craft, and The Halide Project.
“Photography is 93% of my life. The other 7% is occupied by typewriter repair, short story writing, and life model sketching. I chose photography over painting for its speed, joy, and unexpected bends of reality.”—Rick Wright

Last Saturday Photo Follies at Shabu Studios
2019-10-26 19:00 - 21:30 | Shabu Studios, 6055 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR, 97213, United States
Last Saturday Photo Follies – October Edition
Saturday October 26th 7-9:30pm
Shabu Studios
6055 NE Glisan St,
Portland, OR 97213
www.shabustudios.com
https://www.facebook.com/shabustudios/
$8 – cash at the door or
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/last-saturday-photo-follies-at-shabu-studios-tickets-74763205761?fbclid=IwAR1Xi0FRiQYyeHZBdc5oRWulix_dMId76-9XGT086RvcJvztCNUihTbTRVk
A fun-and-games photo competition.
4 photographers each get 12 minutes (1 at a time) in the studio with surprise subject matter and instruction, followed by 12 minutes of editing time.
The audience will observe the shooting, mingle and get to know each other, and then view and vote on their favorite image.
The winner get 1 free hour of studio time, and their winning picture will hang in the Great Hall of Miniatures.
It’s all about fun – any learning is strictly accidental.
