Purple! at Gray Loft Gallery

My lumen print, “Ancient energy #19,” from the series Returning to the Unimagined (and the book of the same name) is included in the exhibition Purple! at Gray Loft Gallery.

On view in this group show will be images capturing the beauty, emotion, and symbolism of the color Purple — a hue often associated with royalty, mystery, spirituality, and creativity. This visually stunning show is dedicated to exploring the diverse dimensions of purple captured through the lens of the camera.

Presented in conjunction with PhotoCarmel
Selected by Ann Jastrab and Jan Watten

Featured Photographers
Debra Achen, Chris Adamson, Stephen Albair, Laurel Anderson, Janet Beaty, Ingrid Becker, Maria Budner, Kimberley Campisano, Ginnie Chabre, Jessica Chen, Marna Clarke, Robert Costa, Delilah Davis, Fairlight de Michele, Tony DeVarco, Allyson Ely, Diane Fenster, Robel Fessehatzion, Ginger Fierstein, Chris Gibbons,
J. M. Golding, Steve Goldband and Ellen Konar, Cheryl L. Guerrero, Marsha Guggenheim, Lawrence R Herzberg, Irene Imfeld, Judi Iranyi, Becky Jaffe, Patrick Jagger, Aidan Jung, Nadine Levin, Lisa Levine, Laurel Malinovksy, Jeanne Marino, Sonia, Melnikova-Raich, Melina Meza, Tom Minczeski, Carolyn Moore, Anne Morrison Rabe, Charles Moulton, Steve Napoli, Julia Nelson-Gal, Charlotte Niel, Fletcher Oakes, Gary Oehrle, Eben Ostby, Mark Overgaard, Karen Palamos, Peter R. Paluzzi, Tim Passaro, Malcolm Ryder, Jenny Sampson, Charlotte Schmid-Maybach, Dennis Segers, Neo Serafimidis, Nancy Sevier, Elizabeth Sher, Fabienne Sowa-Dobkowski, Alex Starfield, Anne Sturgeon, Steven Ta, Michael Teresko, Gary Topper, Jacqui Turner, Peche Turner, Jim Van Slyke, Jen Waicukauski, Jacqueline Walters, Susan West, Sharon Wickham, Stephanie WIlliamson , Nick Winkworth, Wilton Wong, Sara Wood Davis, Yelena Zhavoronkova

Purple! runs from April 12 through May 11, 2025.

Gray Loft Gallery is located at 2889 Ford Street, #32, Oakland CA 94601, and can be reached by phone at 510-499-3445. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, April 12, from 5:00- 7:00 p.m., and a closing reception is scheduled for Sunday, May 11, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m..The gallery is on the third floor and is not wheelchair accessible.

Monochrome at PhotoPlace Gallery

My untitled photograph is included in the exhibition Monochrome at PhotoPlace Gallery.

Monochrome runs from January 31 through February 21, 2025.

PhotoPlace Gallery is located at 3 Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, January 31, from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

The juror for Monochrome was photographic artist, educator, and Shots magazine owner-publisher Douglas Beasley, who wrote,

The strong images in this exhibit often ask more questions than they answer. They show not merely what the photographer saw but transcribe what was felt. This is visually much harder to do, yet so much more compelling. I found these traits in abundance in these beautiful and sometimes even mysterious images.

Witnessing Nature's Cycles of Renewal and Healing - J. M. on Art Heals All Wounds

The wonderful Pam Uzzell has included an interview with me on her inspiring podcast, Art Heals All Wounds.

Part of a season focusing on climate and the environment, the episode is titled Witnessing Nature's Cycles of Renewal and Healing with Slow Photographer J.M. Golding. Pam and I talk about nature’s healing from wildfire as I imaged it in From Destruction Grows a Garden of the Soul, the connections between images of nature and internal experience, the joys of lo-fi photographic processes, and the value of slowing down.

I hope you enjoy it!

What Can't Be Spoken at Gallery Route One

My untitled photograph, from the series Before There Were Words, is included in the exhibition What Can’t Be Spoken at Gallery Route One.

What Can’t Be Spoken runs from January 11 through February 15, 2025.

Gallery Route One is located at 11101 Highway One, Suite 1101, Pt. Reyes, CA 94956. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, January 11, from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

The juror for What Can’t Be Spoken was abstract artist and professor emerita at San Francisco Art Institute Frances McCormack.

Momentum at Oakland Photo Workshop

My photograph, “Unimagined wonder is waiting to be born,” from the series From destruction grows a garden of the soul, is included in Momentum, the East Bay Photo Collective’s annual members’ exhibition.

In this exhibit, 47 photographers explore the meaning of motion. Momentum was curated by Malcolm Wallace.

A photography exhibition that captures the beauty, energy, and emotion of movement through diverse scenes and subjects, this collection invites viewers to explore movement as a universal thread woven into nature, cities, and daily life. Featuring striking moments frozen in time and sweeping motion blurs, the exhibition presents scenes from dynamic urban streets and tranquil landscapes, as well as intimate portraits and the lively rhythms of wildlife.

Each image tells a unique story of life in motion—whether it’s the rush of wind through trees, the pulse of city streets, or the expressive gestures of human and animal subjects. With contrasts between sharp, suspended action and ethereal, flowing blurs, Momentum encapsulates the endless ways in which movement shapes our experiences and emotions. This exhibition invites viewers to pause, reflect, and see the world through the lens of motion—a force that connects and drives all of us.

Momentum is on view at the East Bay Photo Collective’s gallery space, Oakland Photo Workshop, from December 6 2024 through January 26 (extended!), 2025.

The gallery is located at 312 8th St., in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood, and is open on Fridays and Saturdays from 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. and Sundays from 12:00 - 3:00 p.m...

You can preview the exhibition online.

An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, December 6th, from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.. There will be music by DJ KG (@Djkgee_), beverages, and snacks. Thanks for supporting local art!

Closing reception for The Spectrum of Intention & the Art of Lumen Printing

Join us on Friday, August 30th from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. for a closing reception and artist Q&A celebrating the East Bay Photo Collective's first alternative process exhibition, The Spectrum of Intention & The Art of Lumen Printing! Francis Baker, Brenna Hansen, Jacqueline Walters, and I will be in attendance and are excited to talk about our practices and answer any questions you may have about the process

The reception will be at Oakland Photo Workshop, located at 312 8th street, Oakland CA.

Copies of my book of lumen prints, Retutrning to the Unimagined, which includes my images from the exhibition, are available at the gallery. You can also find it at Underdog Film Lab, 1624 Peralta Street, Oakland, CA 94607, order it from Blurb (watch for their sales!), or contact me to order a copy.

The Analog Forever Exhibit 2024 at LightBox Gallery

My photograph, The communication of light/The light of communication, from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in The Analog Forever Exhibit 2024 at LightBox Gallery.

The exhibition runs from August 10 through October 5, 2024.

LightBox Gallery is located at 1045 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR 97103, and can be reached by phone at 503-468-0238.

The Analog Forever Exhibit 2024 was juried by photographic artist, independent curator and juror, advocate for the photographic arts, and Analog Forever Magazine Editor in Chief Michael Kirchoff.

The Spectrum of Intention & The Art of Lumen Printing at Oakland Photo Workshop

I’m excited to announce that several of my lumen prints from the series Returning to the unimagined are included in the exhibition, The Spectrum of Intention & The Art of Lumen Printing, at the Oakland Photo Workshop.

The exhibition includes lumen prints by Francis Baker, Brenna Hansen, Jacqueline Walters, and me. It runs from July 12 through September 1, 2024, with an opening reception on Friday, July 12, from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

The gallery is located at 312 8th Street, Oakland, CA 94607. It is open on Fridays and Saturdays from noon - 6:00 p.m. and Sundays from noon - 3:00 p.m.

The exhibition was curated by Oakland Photo Workshop Gallery Manager Jyoti Liggin.

The Oakland Photo Workshop is the gallery of the East Bay Photo Collective, a creative arts non-profit organization providing inspiration, education, and community through the art and craft of photography.

23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Awards

Three of my lumen prints from the series Returning to the unimagined were recognized with an Honorable Mention in the 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award competition, in the Non-Professional Alternative Processes category.

The wordless regions of the heart #36

Ancient energy #19

Inhale, exhale #99

The Julia Margaret Cameron Award is hosted by Fotonostrum and recognizes women photographers worldwide. The competition is named for Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879), who is considered one of the 19th century’s most important portrait photographers.

Returning to the Unimagined - the book!

I’m delighted to announce the publication of Returning to the Unimagined, a book of my lumen prints from the series of the same name.

A bequest of silver gelatin paper and an almost chance email conversation about lumen prints inspired me to use this unusual cameraless photographic technique to find my way through a time of loss and betrayal.

Lumen printing is an alternative photographic process with roots in the 19th century, at the dawn of modern photography. The artist typically places objects on a sheet of unexposed black and white silver gelatin photographic paper and exposes it to sunlight. When exposed to sunlight, black and white paper produces a startling range of colors, depending on factors such as the type and age of the paper, length time in the sun, moisture, and probably other things, including alchemy. Each lumen print is unique, and the results from the process are unpredictable.

Hélène Barrette and I collaborated to expand this historical technique to impart additional magical qualities to the work. That collaboration resulted in the book Playing With Light | Jeu de Lumière.

As I made the lumen prints in Returning to the Unimagined, both human connection and final image were dimly glimpsed ahead of time, with their form, their full possibilities, and at times, even their very existence unimagined. The visual themes that emerged seemed to shift as my internal processes did, ultimately revealing new intensities of inner experience. The photograms are presented in the chronological order in which I made them, reflecting the messy, but very real, sequence in which my internal process unfolded.

The 69 mysterious, surreal botanical images, often verging on abstraction, suggest plants from a dream garden. They invite reverie and offer the possibility of finding resonance with your own stories.

There are currently four ways to get your copy.

  • I have a limited number of copies available at $42 plus tax and shipping. Please contact me for more information.

  • Copies will be available, in connection with the exhibition The Spectrum of Intention & The Art of Lumen Printing, at the Oakland Photo Workshop, 312 8th Street, Oakland, CA 94607 starting on Friday, July 12. (Watch this space for news about the exhibition!)

  • Copies will be available at Underdog Film Lab, 1624 Peralta Street, Oakland, CA 94607 after Saturday, June 29.

  • You can order the book from Blurb.

Playing With Light / Jeu de Lumière: An international lumen print collaboration

I’m delighted to announce the publication of Playing With Light / Jeu de Lumière, a 50-page bilingual book of lumen prints by Hélène Barrette and me.

“Maybe we should challenge each other to make lumens??”

“A lumen-challenge sounds like a great idea.”

So began a collaboration across a continent and an international border.

Hélène Barrette and I first met in 2009, drawn together by our shared love of blurry, black-and-white film photographs, often made through a plastic lens or a pinhole.

A lumen print is a form of (usually) cameraless photography in which the artist places objects on top of a sheet of unexposed black and white silver gelatin photographic paper (or film) and exposes it to sunlight. No developer is used, and the results are preserved using scanning because the image is fugitive without fixing. Hélène and I had both made lumen prints before our collaboration began.

We can trace the beginnings of this book to an email conversation in June 2022, which I’ve quoted above. For over a year, we both made lumen prints, showing each other our images and discussing our experiences with the process. As this process continued, it occurred to me that we could make a book of the images. To my delight, Hélène, agreed. Today, that book is a reality.

Playing With Light / Jeu de Lumière is available from MagCloud.

Theme: Dreams issue of Seities Studio

My photograph, Portal, from the series Lost Connections, is included in issue 012 of Seities, titled Theme: Dreams.

This hefty, attractively printed publication includes beautiful, intriguing images made using a wide range of photographic processes, including work made with glass lenses, plastic cameras, and pinhole cameras; wet plate collodion photographs; cyanotype prints; polaroid images in various forms; mordançage; and at least one lumen print.

A free publication celebration is scheduled for this Thursday, February 29, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.at The Collectors' Gallery Of Art, 1332 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0T3, Canada.

Seities is a non-profit publication, gallery, and educational organization that supports traditional and alternative photography.