2022 Alternative Processes Competition at Soho Photo

My cyanotype photogram, Mandala 373 (medicine for a broken heart), from the series Mandalas for the blues, is included in the 2022 Alternative Processes Competition exhibition at Soho Photo.

The exhibition runs from November 16 through December 3, 2022, with an opening reception on Thursday, November 17 from 6:00 to 8:00 p. m.

Soho Photo is located at 15 White Street, New York, NY 10013 and can be reached by phone at 212-226-8571.

You can preview the exhibition here - just click on any image and follow the arrows.

The juror for the 2022 Alternative Processes Competition was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.

Where Would I Be Without You? at Oakland Photo Workshop

My photograph, Doc Watson, July 10, 2011, is included in Where Would I Be Without You?. In this exhibit, twenty-eight photographers who are members of the East Bay Photo Collective explore the meaning of family.

The exhibition runs from November 11, 2022 through January 6, 2023, with an opening reception on Friday, November 11 from 5:00 to 8:00 p. m.

Photograph by Douglas Stinson

The Oakland Photo Workshop is located at 312 8th Street, Oakland, CA 94607, in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood.

Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays from noon - 6:00 p.m. and Sundays from noon - 3:00 p.m..

World Cyanotype Day

Saturday, September 24 was World Cyanotype Day. Every year on the last Saturday of September, photographers and artists worldwide gather to connect, create, and celebrate this antiquarian photographic process. The theme this year was “Enlighten.” The history of World Cyanotype Day is summarized here.

I made this photogram, titled “Mandala 425 (enlighten),” on September 24.

You can see the World Cyanotype Day online gallery at alternativephotography.com. It includes work by 333 artists from 40 countries! My cyanotype is on page 5.

The Life of Water at PhotoPlace Gallery

My photograph, Revealed in a whisper, is included in the online gallery exhibition The Life of Water.

The exhibition runs from September 28 through October 21, 2022, 2022. A reception is scheduled for Friday, September 30, from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m..

PhotoPlace Gallery is located at 3 Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, and can be reached by email at photos@photoplacegallery.com

You can view the online gallery here, and preview the gallery exhibition here.

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

The Found Still Life (FotoFest Juried Exhibition) at Art League of Baytown

Two of my photographs are included in the exhibition, The Found Still Life, the 2022 FotoFest Juried Exhibition of the Art League of Baytown.

Improbable and undeniable

The cap in the gap

The exhibition runs from September 24 through November 5, 2022, with a reception on Saturday, October 1, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

The Art League of Baytown is located at 110 West Texas Avenue, Baytown, TX, and can be reached by phone at 281-427-2222. The exhibition is also available for online preview here.

The juror for The Found Still Life was photographic artist, educator, and Shots magazine owner-publisher Douglas Beasley.

Out of the Blue at ACCI Gallery

Two of my cyanotype works from the series Mandalas for the Blues are included in the exhibition Out of the Blue at ACCI Gallery.

Together is all kinds of magic

Mandala 278 (together)

The exhibition is on view from September 1 through 25, 2022, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 3, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. and a closing reception on Saturday, September 24, World Cyanotype Day.

ACCI Gallery is located at 1652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, and can be reached by phone at 510-843-2527. Gallery hours are 11:00 - 6:00 Monday through Saturday and 12:00 - 5:00 Sunday.

The cyanotype, also known as a blueprint, is an early camera-less photographic printing process invented 180 years ago in 1842. The name cyanotype was derived from the Greek name cyan, meaning "dark-blue impression."

The earliest practitioner of the cyanotype process was Anna Atkins in 1843, producing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book to be fully illustrated with photographs. A relatively simple process, the cyanotype requires merely sensitized paper, sunlight, and water to create remarkable photographic images. In recent years we have seen a renewed appreciation of the blueprint process and other antiquated photographic formats.

Arts & Crafts Cooperative, Inc. invited artists to experiment with cyanotypes to create something "Out of the Blue." In homage to Anna Atkins, the challenge here was to use the 19th century historical blueprint process (incorporating nature and the environment) and alter the practice with a mix of media, combining and layering alternative materials and textiles, resulting in a contemporary vision.

World Cyanotype Day is Saturday September 24, 2022. Every year on the last Saturday of September, photographers and artists worldwide gather to connect, create, and celebrate this antiquarian photographic process.

2022 Somerville Toy Camera Festival

Three of my photographs from the series Lost Connections are included in this year’s Somerville Toy Camera Festival.

Portal

Peaceful reminds me of you

Here the light finds us

The Somerville Toy Camera Festival is being held at two galleries: the Nave Gallery at 155 Powder House Road, and the Washington Street Gallery at 321 Washington Street, both in Somerville, MA. My work is at the Washington Street Gallery.

The Washington Street Gallery exhibition runs from September 10 - October 8. The Nave Gallery exhibition runs from August 27 to September 24, 2022. Both shows have opening receptions on September 17 - from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Washington Street Gallery and from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. at the Nave Gallery.

Online galleries are also available for both the Washington Street Gallery and Nave Gallery exhibits.

Since 2013, the Somerville Toy Camera Festival has celebrated the quirky and creative results that can happen when photographers loosen their controls, submit to the light, and embrace the accidental. Each year since, the Festival has brought a wide range of toy camera photography by US and international artists together in simultaneous shows at galleries throughout the city, and featured related programming.

The juror for the 2022 Somerville Toy Camera Festival was photographer Laidric Stevenson.

Open Theme at Praxis Gallery

My photograph, “To be seen by another,” is included in the Open Theme exhibition at Praxis Gallery.

The exhibition runs from August 27 through September 10, 2022.

A closing reception is scheduled for Saturday, September 10, 2022, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., in conjunction with the Green Way Glow festival.

Praxis Gallery is located at 2637 27th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN, 55406, and can be reached by phone at 612-345-5571. A 3D virtual tour of the exhibition is available here (updated 8/27/22).

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

In My Backyard at GearBox Gallery

Two of my photographs are included in the exhibition In My Backyard at GearBox Gallery.

Color photograph of buttercups, rendered in magenta through use of Lomochrome Purple film, with blurred trees and sun rising in the background

Raspberries for breakfast

Black and white landscape photograph in which clouds seem to be reflected in a lake, and dark land masses on left and right join in a point of light

The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning

The show runs from August 18 through September 12, 2022. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, August 20, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., with a juror’s talk at 2:00. A closing reception is scheduled for Friday, September 2, from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m., during Oakland’s First Friday celebration of the arts.

GearBox Gallery is located at 770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612, and can be reached by phone at 510-271-0822.

You can preview the show here.

The jurors for In My Backyard were Gallery Curator Eric Murphy and owner Joyce Gordon of Joyce Gordon Gallery. Eric Murphy wrote of this exhibition:

The selection process focused on the literal and obvious backyard references first, of course nature and climate change fit in between. Then in the expressed version we often use, “It happened in our own backyard,” as in being close to us in one capacity or another. Next, we moved further out to the social and political experience of what “happens in our own backyard.” Other works are more about abstract interpretations of “In My Backyard” in a virtual sense or a place of mental comfort. Ultimately the selections are eclectic, intended to encompass the various interpretations of the theme.

Click! at Village Theatre Art Gallery

My photograph, “Trail and contrail,” is included in the exhibition Click! at the Village Theatre Art Gallery. Click! is the gallery’s 12th Annual Juried Exhibit featuring work by photographers from the Western United States.

The exhibition opens with a reception on Thursday, June 9, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., and runs through Friday, August 12.

The Village Theatre Art Gallery is located at 233 Front Street, Danville, CA 94526 and can be reached by phone at 925-314-3460.

There’s a virtual tour of the exhibit here, and the work can also been seen on the gallery’s website.

The juror for Click! was Heather Snider, Executive Director at PhotoAlliance in San Francisco.

Collaborations in Shots Magazine

A collaborative project by Al Brydon and me, Tales from a non-existent land, is featured in the spring 2022 issue of Shots magazine.

The presence of the unseen

To make these photographs, we each expose a roll of film in a plastic Holga camera, send it to the other, and re-expose it - not knowing what is already present in the latent image. As a result, the images hold the random magic of two unconscious processes and two Holgas.

The spring issue of Shots is devoted to the theme of collaborations in photography.

The Magic of Light at PhotoPlace Gallery

My photograph, “The communication of light/The light of communication,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the exhibition The Magic of Light at PhotoPlace Gallery.

The exhibition runs from March 3 through 26, 2022. PhotoPlace Gallery is located at 3 Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, and can be reached by email at photos@photoplacegallery.com

You can view the gallery exhibition here, and an additional online-only exhibition here. Installation photos are here.

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

Connecting to the Divine at Analog Forever Magazine

My photograph, “Communicada,” from the series Where you are, is included in the online exhibition Connecting to the Divine at Analog Forever magazine.

The juror for Connecting to the Divine was fine art and commercial photographer, educator, and owner-publisher of Shots magazine Douglas Beasley, who wrote,

“Our photographs can be spiritual metaphors expressing our connection to the divine or to the eternal. This is different than documenting the religious or spiritual practices of others, this is so much more personal… [The photographs show] what it is that [the artists] personally hold sacred, how [they] interact with [their] spiritual instincts or inclinations, and how that shows up in [their] photography. It is often more about feeling than knowing.”

1st Annual Photography & Digital Art Exhibition at San Francisco Women Artists

Three of my photographs are included in the 1st Annual Photography & Digital Art Exhibition at San Francisco Women Artists’ gallery.

This one received a Juror’s Choice award:

Trail and contrail

These two are also in the exhibition:

The goodbye dialogues

Mandala 278 (together)

The exhibition runs from February 8 through March 4, 2022, with a reception on Saturday, February 12, from 2:00 -4:00 p.m.

San Francisco Women Artists is located at 647 Irving Street at 8th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, and can be reached by phone at 415-566-8550.

You can view the exhibition online here.

The juror for the 1st Annual Photography & Digital Art Exhibition was award-winning photographer, curator, and member of the Adobe Photoshop Hall of Fame Diane Fenster.