I’ve added two new calendars to my Zazzle shop.
One, titled Landscapes and Other Mysteries, includes photographs from the series Lost Connections.
The other, titled Everyday Mysteries (there seems to be a theme here!), includes photographs from the series The unclear way forward.
My untitled photograph (from an as-yet untitled new series) is included in the Landscape 2021 exhibition in F-Stop magazine.
This online exhibition was juried by F-Stop founder and editor Christy Karpinski.
My contribution to the A Photographic Life podcast drops today.
Each week, host Grant Scott invites photographers to respond for up to five minutes to the question, "What does photography mean to you?" To hear my response, you can tune into this week’s episode.
Grant offers a spontaneous response to each contribution - he doesn't listen to them before he airs them.
The podcast is available on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud, Podbean, Overcast, and other podcatchers.
My photograph, “We are connected by light,” is included in the online exhibition, Toy Stories at Analog Forever magazine.
Toy Stories goes live today. It showcases a range of dreamlike photographs made with toy cameras, demonstrating what artists can create using these simple tools with plastic lenses.
The juror for Toy Stories was fine art photographer, curator, and PhotoNOLA founder Jennifer Shaw.
Two of my photographs are included in the exhibition “water” at A Smith Gallery.
Peaceful reminds me of you, from the series Los Connections
Atlantis unexpected
A Smith Gallery is located at 103 North Nugent Avenue, Johnson City, TX 78636. You can preview the exhibition here.
The “water” exhibition runs from September 10 through October 31, 2021.
Receptions are scheduled for Saturday, September 25 and Saturday, October 30, both at 4:00 p.m. CDT, on Facebook Live.
The juror for “water” was artist, educator, writer, and publisher Douglas Beasley, who selected 55 photographs for the exhibition from 930 that were submitted.
My cyanotype photogram, "Mandala 361 (communication)," from the series Mandalas for the Blues, is included in the exhibition Visions of Nature at Light Art Space.
Light Art Space is located at 209 West Broadway, Silver City, NM 88061, and can be reached by phone at 520-240-7075.
The exhibition runs from August 6 through October 2, 2021, with receptions on Friday, August 6, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. and Friday, September 17, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The juror for Visions of Nature, photographic artist, educator, and curator Diana Bloomfield, will present a informal gallery talk during the September 17 reception.
In this time of isolation and uncertainty, nature became a refuge for many, a new experience for some and a muse for others. This exhibition welcomed work utilizing alternative photographic techniques referencing nature. Nature was defined loosely. Any aspect of the natural world coud be referenced: plant, animal (including humans), the imaginary etc. Artists were asked to consider how their relationship with the natural world has been altered in recent years.
I’ve updated the Mandalas for the Blues gallery on my website, which now includes four large polyptychs as well as several new individual images.
My photograph, “Time becomes memory,” from the series Lost connections, is included in this year’s Krappy Kamera exhibition.
The exhibition, hosted by Soho Photo in New York, is online this year. You can see it here from July 16 through August 12, 2021. Click on any photo to see the images large, and click on the (i) at the lower left to see the artist’s name and camera type.
The philosophy behind this exhibition is that in the hands of any artist great photographs can be made with basic equipment. To explore this talent, the gallery searched for extraordinary photographs made with lousy lenses.
The juror for Krappy Kamera was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.
An artists’ reception and online talk by Ann is scheduled for Tuesday, July 20, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Ann wrote, “I was honored to revel in the creativity and talent of these wielders of toy cameras. There were so many amazing photographs, dream-like, otherworldly, pictures I wished I’d taken, pictures that squeezed my heart, pictures that made me rethink what a photograph could be, so many gifts in a year that needed more beauty, more possibilities, more escapes."
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.
The exhibition will run from June 17 through July 9, 2021, with a reception on Thursday, June 17, 2021, from 2:00 - 8:00 p.m.
The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art is located at 118 North Main Street, 2nd floor, Providence, RI 02903, and can be reached by phone at 401-400-2542. Gallery hours are Thursdays through Saturdays, noon till 6:00pm, and by appointment.
The exhibition was originally planned for last summer, and since August 2020 has been available online.
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 juror for Photography Without a Lens: An Exploration of Alternate Processes was 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.
Two of my photographs from the series Lost connections are included in the second annual Fantastic Film Show at LightBox Gallery.
Here the light finds us
Portal
The Fantastic Film Show features photographic images made with film with all types of cameras, from fine cameras to any and all plastic, pinhole, box or homemade cameras. Any analog image shot with film was considered, including plates and handmade emulsions.
My photograph, “Portal”, received the juror’s top award. Thank you, Michael!
LightBox Gallery is located at 1045 Marine Drive, Astoria, Oregon, 97103, and can be reached by phone at 503-468-0238.
The exhibition runs from June 12 through July 7, 2021.
An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, June 12, from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The juror for the Fantastic Film Show was gallery owner Michael Granger.
My collaboration with Al Brydon, Tales From a Non-Existent Land, is featured on Ilford Photo’s online magazine.
We tell the story of how our collaborative work began, how the process works, and what it means to us.
Many thanks to Ilford for including our work!
Work from my series, The unclear way forward, is included in Right to Roam, volume 1 of Inside the Outside’s journal.
Photographically exploring the theme of the right to roam, this beautiful 110-page journal includes an introduction by Inside the Outside co-founder Rob Hudson and work by 37 other contributors.
Some of the work is also available for viewing on the Inside the Outside website. An index can be found here; my contribution is here.
Inside the Outside is a UK-based landscape photography collective that mediates the liminal space between the world before us and within. Its core founding members are Al Brydon, Rob Hudson, Stephen Segasby, and Joseph Wright.
The solo exhibition of photographs from my Transitional landscapes series, which has been at Photolab since March 7, 2020, is closing this Friday, April 16, 2021. If you’re in the area and meant to see it, this is your chance.
To walk through the dream not knowing
Photolab is located at 2235 Fifth Street, Berkeley, CA (phone at 510-644-1400), and is open for kiosk (inside) and sidewalk (outside) pickup and drop-off. The Photolab Gallery is curated by Andrea McLaughlin and Irene Imfeld.
My photograph, “A memory of expansion/an expansion of memory,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included - with the work of many artists I admire - in the beautiful new book, Diffusion: Artfully Crafted Photography, volume X.
In “A love letter to the crafters of photography,” co-editor Blue Mitchell wrote,
“It’s difficult for me to summarize the story of Diffusion’s 10-year journey. It’s been a long road and it feels like we’ve accomplished a lot. While other press houses publish more titles more frequently, Diffusion is (and always has been) more than a publication: Diffusion is a community. To date, we have successfully sponsored over 10 physical exhibitions and we have created online opportunities for artists to support and connect with each other. Stepping back, I can say that the annual itself has ultimately provided so much more for its readership.”
A video flip through the book is here.
144 pages, 90+ images, full color // cover: perfect bound, foil stamped
8.25 in. × 10.75 in. // 20.96 cm. × 27.31 cm.
English language, 1st edition of 500
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My image, The peace at the center/The center at peace, was selected as a winner of Black & White magazine’s 2021 smartphone photography contest.
It appears on p. 31 of the January 2021 issue.
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.
My photograph, As if we could go on forever, is included in the Jones Gallery, selected by photographer Lou Jones.
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.
My cyanotype photogram, Mandala 251 (together we celebrate spring), is included in the exhibition unique: alternative processes at A Smith Gallery.
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.
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.
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.
My cyanotype photogram, Mandala 278 (together), is included in Altered Reality, an exhibition celebrating work created with historical photographic processes, at LightBox Gallery.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
