Black, White and Monochrome at the SE Center for Photography

My photograph, "In the circle," from the series Lost Connections, is included in the exhibition Black, White & Monochrome at the SE Center for Photography.

The exhibition runs from February 4 through 26, with a reception on Friday, February 4, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

You can see the exhibition online here.

The SE Center is located at 116 East Broad Street, Greenville, SC 29601, and can be reached by phone at 864-605-7400.

From the gallery's email (with links added by me):

Monochrome photography, images produced with a single hue, rather than recording the colors of the object that was photographed. The SE Center asked for images of any theme, media, digital, analog, or antique processes.

Our juror for Black, White & Monochrome, Douglas Beasley, has made his selections
and the following photographers have been invited to participate
in Black, White & Monochrome:

Geoffrey Agrons, Julia Arstorp, Jason Au, Gary Beeber, 
David Bence, Bonnie Bishop, David Blow, 
Derek Brown, Mark Collins, Rajan Dosaj, Grey Eckert, Diane Fenster, 
Rick Gayle, J. M. Golding, Rosemary Haynes, Susan Holtz, 
Kirsten Hoving, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Ted & Nune, Tom Kirkendall, 
Jim Kohatsu, Nicole LeCorgne, Barbara Lewin, Lawrence Manning, 
Micah McCoy, Patricia McElroy, Nanci Milton,
Tristan Partridge, Gerald Pisarzowski, Alexej Sachov, Mary Schafer, 
Miranda Schmitz, Dennis Segers,  Kerry Sharkey-Miller, Ed Speas, 
Wendy Stone, Gary Topper, Jacqui Turner, 
Raphael Warshaw, and Mark Weller

Food with a Twist at Oakland Photo Workshop Gallery

My image, “Eggs,” is included in the exhibition Food with a Twist at the new Oakland Photo Workshop (OPW) Gallery.

The exhibition opens January 23, 2022, and runs through March 11, with a reception on Saturday, March 5, from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Featuring the work of East Bay Photo Collective members, this exhibition explores our relationship with food - the comforts, challenges, and essential aspects of our daily interactions with the nourishment that sustains us. A cookbook based on the show is also planned. The exhibition was coordinated, and the jury was chaired, by Neeley Drown.

I’m honestly not a big fan of eating eggs by themselves. But the eggs in my photo have a special meaning for me. This past summer, I took a vacation for the first time since the pandemic had begun. I’m very grateful to have continued working, and I’d worked hard and was very ready for time off. I stayed at a house in the country, which, in a surprise me, came with several friendly chickens in the yard. They laid eggs several times during my stay. My image shows some of those eggs.

OPW is a community gallery and workspace, hosted by the East Bay Photo Collective and offering exhibitions by local photographers and community groups, photography classes, talks by local artists, photo walks, and meetups.

It is located at 312 East 8th Street, Oakland, CA, 94697, in the historic Asian Resource Center in Oakland’s Chinatown. OPW can be reached by phone at 510-922-8467.

Revival at LightBox Gallery

Two of my photographs are included in the Revival exhibition at LightBox Gallery.

We still had the sun

Raspberries for breakfast

The exhibition opens today, January 15, 2022, and runs through February 9.

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

You can view the entire exhibition online here.

The jurors for Revival were the artists who submitted work for consideration - “a jury of your peers.”

Embrace at Fourth Street Fine Art

My photograph, “The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the Embrace exhibition at the Fourth Street Fine Art gallery.

The exhibition runs from January 14 through February 27, 2022, with an artist reception on Saturday, February 12, from 2:00 - 5:00, pandemic permitting (please check the gallery website). It takes place both at the physical gallery and an online virtual gallery.

Fourth Street Fine Art is located at 2000 4th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, and can be reached by phone at 510-647-6136.

The jurors for Embrace were Gera Hasse, Founder of Fourth Street Fine Art; Meredith A. Brown, Ph.D., Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator at Planting Fields Foundation, New York; and Edward Montgomery, owner of Edward Montgomery Gallery, Carmel, CA.

International Alternative Processes Competition online exhibition

My cyanotype photogram, “Mandala 278 (together),” from the series Mandalas for the Blues, is included in the annual International Alternative Processes Competition exhibition, hosted by Soho Photo Gallery.

The exhibition runs from December 10, 2021 through February 27, 2022. It appears online at both Soho Photo Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

An online artists’ reception is scheduled for Wednesday, December 15, 2021, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

The juror for the International Alternative Processes Competition was Paula Tognarelli, who is Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts.

Yellow! at Gray Loft Gallery

My photograph, “An alchemy of protection,” is included in the exhibition Yellow! at Gray Loft Gallery.

Yellow! runs from November 20 through December 18, 2021, with an opening reception on Saturday, November 20, from 4:00 till 6:30 p.m., and a closing reception on Saturday, December 18 from 4:00 till 6:30 p.m.

The exhibit features the work of Bay Area photographers and includes images from a wide array of traditional and alternative photographic processes – including pinhole photography, images made with Polaroid and plastic cameras, tintypes, and other film-based works. This exhibit is a celebration of the color yellow and embraces the unexpected and treasured qualities of this color in many mediums.

Participating Photographers are Stephen Albair, Mima Cataldo, Francis Baker, Gary Beeber, Rose Borden, Maria Budner, Virginia Chabre, Nina Chiappa, Sarah Christianson, Marna G. Clarke, Joshua Curry, Tony DeVarco, Gene Dominique, Lisa Erdberg, Laura Epstein-Norris, Diane Fenster, J. M. Golding, Cheryl L. Guerrero, Marsha Guggenheim, Kent A. Hall, Najib Joe Hakim, Judi Iranyi, Josie Iselin, Laura Kiernan, Ellen Konar/Steve Goldband, Philip Krayna, Claire Maen, Erik Mathy, Sonia Melnikova-Raich, Charles Moulton, Maureen Mulhern-White, Jeannie OConnor, Eben Ostby, Mark Overgaard, Anne Rabe, Steven Raskin, Charles Reilly, David Robinson, Philip T. Sager, Jenny Sampson, Neo Serafimidis, Elizabeth Sher, Gail Skoff, Susan Sperry, Douglas G. Stinson, Michael Teresko, George Tomberlin, Jill Van Hoogenstyn, Jacqueline Walters, Sally Weber, Rusty Weston, Jeff Weston, Susan West, Anita White, Stephanie Williamson, Nick Winkworth, Mitsu Yoshikawa, and Yelena Zhavoronkova.

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

Gray Loft Gallery is located at 2889 Ford Street, third floor, Oakland, CA 94601 and can be reached by phone at 510-499-3445.

Gray Loft Gallery was founded in 2012,  when an airy Jingletown loft was converted to a gallery space. The gallery has been referred to as a hidden gem in Jingletown, and noted by the late Kenneth Baker, former SF Chronicle Art Critic, in his Visual Arts Don’t Miss Column as “…a space gaining prominence in the Bay Area…”  

New calendars available

I’ve added two new calendars to my Zazzle shop.

One, titled Landscapes and Other Mysteries, includes photographs from the series Lost Connections.

Landscapes and Other Mysteries Calendar
by JM_Golding

The other, titled Everyday Mysteries (there seems to be a theme here!), includes photographs from the series The unclear way forward.

Everyday Mysteries Calendar
by JM_Golding

Landscape at F-Stop magazine

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.

What does photography mean to you? on the A Photographic Life podcast

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.

Toy Stories at Analog Forever Magazine online

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.

"water" at A Smith Gallery

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.

Visions of Nature at Light Art Space

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.

Krappy Kamera at Soho Photo online

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."

Photography Without a Lens: An Exploration of Alternate Processes - on the walls 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.

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.

The Fantastic Film Show at LightBox Gallery

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.

Tales From a Non-Existent Land in Ilford online magazine

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!

Right to Roam: Inside the Outside Journal, volume 1

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.

Transitional landscapes exhibition closing at Photolab

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.

Diffusion X

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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Black & White Magazine Smartphone Contest

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.