My photograph, Into the morning, is included in the Minimal exhibition at F-Stop Magazine.
This online exhibition, which is live as of Tuesday, October 1, 2024, includes photographs from around the world, and was curated by F-Stop Magazine Founder and Editor Christy Karpinski.
The Spectrum of Intention & the Art of Lumen Printing closes on September 1.
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.
Today’s episode of the Art Heals All Wounds podcast features my description of collaborating with Hélène Barrette and the creation of our book of lumen prints, with a lovely introduction by host Pam Uzzell,
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.
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.
My photograph, So many things we don’t have to say, from the series Where you are, is included in the Botanica exhibition at the Village Theatre Art Gallery.
The exhibition includes botanical-themed art work in a range of media. Here are the details:
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.
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.
My photograph, From darkness we find each other, from the series Where you are, received an Honorable Mention in the May Photo of the Month competition at The Image Flow Photography Center. The month’s theme was Wilderness.
The competition results are published online, and The Image Flow is located in San Anselmo, California.
Three of my photographs are included in the Open Theme online exhibition at F-Stop Magazine.
These signs of hope
There's light even in this darkness
To fold in and out of time
This online exhibition, which is live as of Saturday, June 1, 2024, includes diverse images from photographers around the world, selected by F-Stop Magazine Founder and Editor Christy Karpinski.
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.
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.
Four lumen prints from my series, Returning to the unimagined, are included in this year’s Color exhibition at F-Stop Magazine.
Flowers for Diane #1
The wordless regions of the heart #6
The wordless regions of the heart #12
The wordless regions of the heart #36
This online exhibition, which is live as of Thursday, February 1, 2024, includes diverse images from photographers around the world, selected by F-Stop Magazine Founder and Editor Christy Karpinski.
My lumen print, The wordless regions of the heart #36, from the series Returning to the unimagined, is included in Gray Loft Gallery’s 6th annual color-themed photography exhibition, Pretty in Pink.
Pink, often associated with love, warmth, compassion, hope and creativity, holds a special place in our visual and emotional spectrum as pink carries a myriad of meanings and emotions. This dynamic group photography show encompasses an impressive collection of elegant and vibrant shades of pink. Images on view include mixed media, alternative processes, color imagery, and hand-colored photographs.
Gray Loft Gallery is located at 2889 Ford Street #32, Oakland CA 94601. Gallery hours are Saturdays, 1:00 p..m. - 5:00 p.m. and by appointment, with special hours (3:30 - 6:30 p.m.) on Saturday, January 20.
The exhibition runs from January 20 through February 24, 2024. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, January 20, from 4:00 - 6:30 p.m., and a closing reception is scheduled for Saturday, February 24, from 4:00 - 6:30 p.m. The gallery is not wheelchair accessible.
Pretty in Pink was juried by Ann Jastrab, Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art; and Jan Watten, founder of Gray Loft Gallery.
Participating artists are Golnaz Abdoli, Stephen Albair, Caren Alpert, Laurel Anderson, Francis Baker, Janet Beaty, Ingrid Becker, Bonnie Blake-Drucker, Rose Borden, Janis Burger, Kimberley Campisano, Ginnie Chabre, Marna G. Clarke, Sas Colby, Kimberly Cortigiano, Tony DeVarco, Gene Dominique, Allyson Ely, Susan Felter, Diane Fenster, Robel Fessehatzion, Raena Frohlich, Ashley Gates, J. M. Golding, Steve Goldband & Ellen Konar, John Greenleigh, Marsha Guggenheim, Gary Hauser, Edie Hoffman, Ann Holsberry, Christine Huhn, Judi Iranyi, Josie Iselin, Candice Jacobus, Bill Johnston Jr, Nadine Levin, Kendra Luck, Sonia Melnikova-Raich, Melina Meza, Charles Moulton, Steve Napoli, Julia Nelson-Gal, Fletcher Oakes, Eben Ostby, Peter R. Paluzzi, Ginny Parsons, Anne Morrison Rabe, Malcolm Ryder, Jenny Sampson, Matty Sarubbi, Ron Moultrie Saunders, Jr, Neocles Serafimidis, Scott Sidorsky, Dean Snodgrass, Ari Salomon, Alex Starfield, Douglas G. Stinson, Michael Teresko, Lisa Toby, Marcy Voyevod, Sally Weber, Rusty Weston, Susan West, Stephanie Williamson, Nick Winkworth, and Yelena Zhavoronkova.
My photograph, Before you knew where to look, is included in the exhibition We are water | We are earth | We are sky at the Oakland Photo Workshop.
We are water | We are earth | We are sky, the East Bay Photo Collective’s annual members’ exhibition, celebrates humanity’s interconnection with nature. In our increasingly digitized lives it can be easy to forget that we remain physical animals, tied to a physical body that is made up of natural elements. EBPCO members have explored this theme in many directions, finding both personal and universal interpretations.
The exhibition runs from December 8, 2023 through February 4, 2024, with an opening reception on Friday, December 8, from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
The Oakland Photo Workshop is located at 312 8th Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, and can be reached by phone at (510) 922-8476. Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays from noon - 6:00 p.m., and Sundays from noon - 3:00 p.m.
The show was curated by Amanda Bensel, an international development professional, documentary photographer, and filmmaker whose work supports leadership development, climate action, women’s rights, and social enterprise across Asia.
My photograph, Lethe, is included in the Impermanence exhibition at LightBox Gallery.
The exhibition runs from November 11 through December 6, 2023. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, November 11, from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
LightBox Gallery is located at 1045 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR 97103, and can be reached by phone at 503-468-0238.
Impermanence was juried by photographic artist, educator, and Shots magazine owner-publisher Douglas Beasley, who wrote,
The ancient Taoists knew that impermanence is the way of nature, the way of the universe. Buddhists teach that everything is impermanent, even us. Especially us!
He challenged artists to ”translate that abstract notion into a visual statement without being cliche or trite … [to] make photographs of the concept that go beyond the expected … [and to make] photographs that ask more questions than they answer.”
Two photographs from my Transitional landscapes series are included in the exhibition Sacred Encounters at the Monterey Museum of Art.
Each breath both like and unlike every other
New world
Sacred Encounters presents an exploration into how photography engages with the sacred world, and the ways that photographers experience and express these ideas through portraiture, architecture, landscape, and abstraction. The exhibition will feature a select group of California photographers working in a range of processes and in both black and white and color. Participating photographs are Linda Connor, Eduardo Fujii, J. M. Golding, Roman Loranc, Richard Murai, Nadezda Nikolova, Manuello Paganelli and Kenneth Parker. From MMA’s collection, artists include Ansel Adams, Morley Baer, Martha Casanave, Edward Curtis, and more. The exhibition was curated by independent curator and art writer Helaine Glick.
The exhibition runs from September 7 through December 17, 2023. The museum is located at 559 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA 93940, and can be reached by phone at 831-372-5477. It is open Thursdays through Sundays from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
My photograph, Portal, from the series Lost Connections, was selected for Your Daily Photograph, September 30, 2023.
The details are here.
My photograph, The time of breathtaking vulnerability #15, is included in this year’s Somerville Toy Camera Festival.
The festival takes place at three galleries: Brickbottom Gallery, Nave Gallery, and Washington Street Gallery. My photograph is part of the Brickbottom Gallery exhibition, which runs from September 7 - October 7, 2023. Gallery hours are Thursdays through Saturdays from noon - 5:00 p.m. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, September 9, 2023, from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. The gallery is located at 1 Fitchburg Street, Somerville, MA, 02143.
There’s information about more festival events at the Festival Events page.
The festival was juried by curator, educator, writer, editor, fine art photographer, and master printer Ann Jastrab.
My photograph, Peaceful reminds me of you, from the series Lost Connections, is included in the exhibition Water is Sacred at ACCI Gallery.
ACCI Gallery is located at 1652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA 94709, and can be reached by phone at 510-843-2527. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 11:00 a..m. - 6:00 p.m. and Sunday 12 noon - 5:00 p.m.
The exhibition runs from September 1 through October 8, 2023. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, September 9, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Water is Sacred was juried by independent scholar, photo historian, social documentary photographer, and educator Susanna (Suzun) Lucia Lamaina.