The Somerville Toy Camera Festival online

Three of my photographs are included in the Somerville Toy Camera Festival, taking place entirely online this year.

The festival celebrates photographs made with “toy” cameras – low-tech cameras with no or very limited exposure control. It usually includes work selected by one juror and takes place across three physical spaces in Somerville, Massachusetts. This year, three jurors each created one exhibition, based on their own organizing principles. The result is a wonderful and diverse selection of “toy” camera photographs.

My photograph, Lifeline, from the series Transitional Landscapes, is included in the Nordström Gallery, selected by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based independent curator and historian of photographs Alison Nordström.

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My photograph, As if we could go on forever, is included in the Jones Gallery, selected by photographer Lou Jones.

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My photograph The communication of light/The light of communication, from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the Franson Gallery, selected by New England based fine art/documentary photographer and Adjunct Professor at Gordon College Bill Franson.

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unique: alternative processes at A Smith Gallery

My cyanotype photogram, Mandala 251 (together we celebrate spring), is included in the exhibition unique: alternative processes at A Smith Gallery.

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A Smith Gallery is located at 103 N. Nugent Ave., Johnson City, TX 78636, and is open by appointment. You can preview the exhibition online here.

The exhibition runs from November 6, 2020 through January 3, 2021. Virtual receptions are scheduled for November 28 and December 19, 2020, both at 4:00 pm Central Time, on Facebook Live.

The juror for unique: alternative processes was fine art photographer, author, educator, and leading authority in alternative photographic processes Jill Enfield.

World Cyanotype Day

Tomorrow, Saturday, September 26, is World Cyanotype Day!

According to the Alternative Photography website, “once a year the cyanotype gets special attention. Since 2015 the cyanotype is celebrated on the last Saturday in September in the yearly event World cyanotype Day. “ As Amanda Smith of A Smith Gallery explains it, the late alternative process photographer Judy Sherrod, who started the first World Cyanotype Day, reasoned that since there was a World Pinhole Day, why couldn’t there be a World Cyanotype Day?

The theme for this year’s World Cyanotype Day is “Interconnected.” A Smith Gallery explains,

Now, in the age of pandemics it is more evident than ever how we are dramatically interconnected, interdependent and just one part of the vast ecology of the earth, the web of life.  The web of life as an illustration of the totality of the relationships of the earth’s systems explains for us how the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; more powerful, more vital – complete.  As a beautiful cut glass vase is much more than particles of sand, soda and lime, we, humanity are much more than one person, one community, one nation.

The challenging moment that we are all living through illustrates absolutely how interconnected we are — how much we need each other physically, materially and spiritually.  It is not just our human to human connection that we need and miss right now — it is also our connection to nature and wildlife and weather.

My cyanotype photogram, Mandala 260 (together) is part of the World Cyanotype Day installation at A Smith Gallery.

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In this installation, many artists’ 12”x12” cyanotype flags are strung together in the gallery, symbolizing interconnectedness.

The installation will hang in the gallery until November 8.  The flags will then be taken to New Orleans to the Healing Arts Center for an exhibition beginning in December for PhotoNOLA until the end of Mardi Gras. A Smith Gallery is located at 103 N. Nugent Ave., Johnson City, TX 78636. There will be a Facebook Live Art Walk on Saturday, September 26, at 5:00 p.m. Central time.

There is also a wonderfully diverse online World Cyanotype Day exhibition at the Alternative Photography website, which, as of September 23, already includes work by 84 artists from 29 countries - and my image above.

Altered Reality at LightBox Gallery

My cyanotype photogram, Mandala 278 (together), is included in Altered Reality, an exhibition celebrating work created with historical photographic processes, at LightBox Gallery.

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LightBox Gallery is located at 1045 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR, 97103-4219, and can be reached by phone at 503-468-0238. The gallery is open with masks required, physical distancing, and limited occupancy.

The exhibition runs from September 12 through October 7, 2020.

The jurors for Altered Reality were photographic artist, educator, and independent curator Diana H. Bloomfield, fine art photographer and educator Karen Hymer, and large and ultra large format photographer, camera builder, carbon transfer specialist and educator Jim Fitzgerald.

The Meaning of Green at Gray Loft Gallery online

My photograph, If you could remember the future, is included in the exhibition The Meaning of Green at Gray Loft Gallery. The exhibition showcases photo-based imagery that contains, or is about, the color green.

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Because of the pandemic and the resulting temporary closure of the physical gallery in Oakland, CA, the exhibition is being held online. You can view it here.

The exhibition runs from September 24 through November 15, 2020.

The jurors for The Meaning of Green were fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, and photographic artist and Gray Loft Gallery founder and curator Jan Watten.

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Photography Without a Lens: An Exploration of Alternate Processes at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art

My photograph, The length of the sky, is included in the exhibition Photography Without a Lens: An Exploration of Alternate Processes at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art.

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The entire exhibition can be viewed online now. A gallery exhibition is planned for June  17 through July 9, 2021, with a reception on June 17, 2021, subject to any restrictions that are in place at that time.

RI Center Managing Director David DeMelim explains that the show could include

any alternate form of image capture from pinhole to scanner and all forms of contact printing and alternate printmaking processes. We included toy cameras and a number of other LoFi approaches to be able to more fully explore what is possible without the aid of a high end camera system. In the age of the selfie, with the ability to share an image around the world in a matter of moments, we sought to present a selection of work to inspire a renewed interest in how images are converted into physical objects.

The exhibition was juried by fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.

Please scroll down on the exhibition page, once you’ve read David’s introduction, to read Ann’s beautiful juror’s statement and to see all the show images with full attributions and brief descriptions.

Let the Sun Shine In at LightBox Gallery

My photograph, “Found in spite of everything,” is included in the online portion of the exhibition Let the Sun Shine In at LightBox Gallery.

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The physical gallery portion of the exhibit is open with masks required, physical distancing, and limited occupancy. It is located at 1045 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR, 97103-4219, and can be reached by phone at 503-468-0238. Let the Sun Shine In runs from July 15 through September 12, 2020.

The exhibition was juried collaboratively by all artists who submitted work.

The Fantastic Film Show at LightBox Gallery

My photograph, “At the edge of everything,” is included in the Fantastic Film Show at LightBox Gallery.

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LightBox Gallery is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, OR 97103-4219, and can be reached by phone at 503-468-0238. The gallery is currently open with masks and physical distancing required, and limited occupancy. The exhibition runs from July 11 through August 4, 2020.

The Fantastic Film Show was juried by fine art photographer, editor-in-chief at Analog Forever Magazine, and founding editor at Catalyst: Interviews Michael Kirchoff.

The Center for Photographic Art is re-opening - and Winter Blues closes June 22

An announcement from the Center for Photographic Art:

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We’re pleased to announce the re-opening of the CPA gallery. We’ll be open weekends only beginning on June 20th, so please wear your mask and come visit us. There will be a limited number of people allowed in the gallery and we have implemented protective measures recommended by the California Department of Public Health to ensure your safety and ours, so please be patient if you have to wait outside for a few moments. 

If you missed the Winter Blues contemporary cyanotype show, the last weekend to view the exhibition will be June 20-21.

The View From Here at Don't Take Pictures online

My untitled photograph is included in the online exhibition, The View From Here, published in the online magazine Don’t Take Pictures.

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The exhibition, on view from May 20 through August 18, 2020, “presents photographers’ views of where they are and where they wish they were.”

The magazine’s title, Don’t Take Pictures,

references the language of modern photography. Over the years, the term “taking pictures” has begun to be replaced with “making photographs.” The change signifies a distinction between the widespread use of cameras in the modern world and the more systematic, thoughtful process of creating photographic art. At Don’t Take Pictures, we strive to celebrate the creativity involved with the making of photographs.  

Imagined Destinations: Reframing the Familiar - EBPCO online exhibition

My untitled photograph is included in the East Bay Photo Collective’s first online exhibition, Imagined Destinations: Reframing the Familiar. The exhibition is online here.

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Travel often reveals new viewpoints from which to experience and rethink our day-to-day lives. In a time when travel and vacation are far-off luxuries, how do we locate the unfamiliar around us and appreciate our immediate surroundings in novel ways?

In the words of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space,

...the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as daydreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us all the time.

The photographs in this exhibition explore imagined travel, locations that remind us of places where we have journeyed, and new perspectives on where we live.

There will be an online opening reception via Zoom this Saturday, May 9, from 5:00 - 7:30 p.m. - details are here.

The exhibition was juried by Beatrice Thornton, an Oakland, CA-based archivist, historian, and digital asset manager and EBPCO’s Exhibitions Coordinator. She holds an M.A. from the Bard Graduate Center in the History of Design, Decorative Arts, and Material Culture, and an Advanced Certificate in Archives and Records Management from Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library Science.