Somerville Toy Camera Festival

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.

Water is Sacred at ACCI Gallery

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.

Gratification at Treat Gallery online

My lumen print diptych, Inhale, exhale #61, from the series Returning to the unimagined, is included in Treat Gallery’s online exhibition Gratification.

Gratification, which appears on Treat Gallery’s website and the gallery’s Artsy page, features a wide range of photographic processes and image content.

The exhibition is on view from August 16 through September 16, 2023.

Sales from the exhibition benefit non-profit organizations of the artist’s choice.

Glitch in the Matrix at Analog Forever Magazine online

My photograph, “My own private fjord,” is included in the exhibition Glitch in the Matrix in the online edition of Analog Forever Magazine.

The exhibition features a fascinating collection of analog photographs in which “something went both horribly wrong yet so right.”

Thanks to Eben Ostby for the inspiration for the title of my photograph!

The juror for Glitch in the Matrix was photographic artist, independent curator and juror, advocate for the photographic arts, and Analog Forever Magazine Editor in Chief Michael Kirchoff.

Still(ed) Life: Celebrating Handmade Photographic Art at Light Art Space

My cyanotype photogram, Mandala 373 (medicine for a broken heart), from the series Mandalas for the Blues, is included in the exhibition Still(ed) Life: Celebrating Handmade Photographic Art at Light Art Space.

The exhibition runs from August 4 through September 30, 2023. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, August 4, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m..

Light Art Space is located at 209 West Broadway, Silver City, NM 88061, and can be reached by phone at 5250-240-7075.

The juror for Still(ed) Life was photographic artist, educator, independent curator, and 19th-century photographic process specialist Diana Bloomfield.

Ember Stomp and Adapting to Wildfire at Marin Civic Center Fairgrounds and Gallery

My photograph, “Many miles,” from the series From destruction grows a garden of the soul, is included at the art exhibition at Ember Stomp and a subsequent gallery exhibition, Ember Stomp: Adapting to Wildfire.

Ember Stomp, Marin county’s second annual wildfire prevention festival, will take place at the Marin Civic Center Fairgrounds at 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, CA 94903, on Saturday, May 20, from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.. In addition to the juried art show, the festival offers live music, food trucks, activities for children, and information about fire prevention.

After the festival, the exhibition moves to the Marin Civic Center Gallery on the first and third floors of the Marin County Civic Center Building, where it will be on view from May 22 - August 30, 2023. Marin County Civic Center is located at 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 - 5:00, and closed on the weekends.

The juror for the exhibition was Emebet Korn, Founder and Director of Desta Gallery in Mill Valley, CA.

Ninth International Juried Exhibition at Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts

My photograph, Portal, from the series Lost Connections, is included in the Ninth International Juried Exhibition at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts.

The exhibition runs from April 20 through May 12, 2023, with a reception on Thursday, April 20th, from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.

The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts is located at 118 North Main Street, 2nd floor, Providence, RI 02903, and can be reached by phone at 401-400-2542 or by email at info@riphotocenter.org.

The Ninth International Juried Exhibition was juried by Paula Tognarelli, who is Curator and former Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Krappy Kamera at Soho Photo Gallery

My photograph, “The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the Krappy Kamera exhibition at Soho Photo Gallery.

The exhibition runs from March 15 through April 2, 2023. An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, March 16, from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m..

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

If you visit the gallery, be sure to see the Film is Dead exhibit by guest exhibitor Jim Rohan.

The juror for Krappy Kamera was photographer, artist, and educator Jean “Gino” Miele, who wrote:

When I had narrowed down nearly a thousand entries to just under a hundred, my wife asked me, “What are you looking for?”

“Magic,” I said. “Ooh. Aah. Better than good. A feeling. A big, unequivocal, yes!” I wasn’t looking for “good,” or “I kind of like that.” I wasn’t looking for clever, or cute. (To be honest, there was one exception to this, but it really made me smile.) I definitely wasn’t looking for cliche.

I was looking for access to another dimension. There's a dream world intertwined with this one, and we all drift back-and-forth, never entirely sure which world we’re in. The pictures I selected for the show made me feel like I could see both worlds at the same time.

We all create our own metaphorical lenses and, depending on the lens we look through, we each see a different world. I’m grateful to the final 50 in this exhibition for sharing the magic of their worlds with us. These artists understand that photography — that seeing — isn’t a passive activity. It’s an act of creation. The photographs in this exhibition haven’t captured something “out there.” They provide glimpses of half-remembered truths from deep “in here.”

These pictures all have mojo. Something extra. Mystery. Alchemy. Poetry… written with a plastic lens.

- Jean ‘Gino’ Miele, March 2023

Night Lights Denver

My image, The wordless regions of the heart #31, from the series Returning to the unimagined, is included in the Night Lights Denver exhibition.

Night Lights Denver, which is part of the Denver Month of Photography, is an innovative outdoor exhibition that will be digitally projected from March 1 through March 31, nightly from 6:30 - 11:00 p.m., on the Daniels & Fisher Clock Tower at 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, CO, 80202.

You can preview the exhibit here.

photo by CPAC Staff

The juror for Night Lights Denver was Samantha Johnston, who is Executive Director and Curator of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center.

I made The wordless regions of the heart #31 using a lumen printing process, a long-exposure photogram made on black and white silver gelatin photographic paper.

Seen and Imagined at Gallery Route One

My cyanotype photogram, Mandala 251 (together we celebrate spring), from the series Mandalas for the Blues, is included in the exhibition Seen and Imagined at Gallery Route One.

The exhibition runs from February 18 through March 18, 2023. A reception is scheduled for Saturday, February 18, from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Gallery Route One is located at 11101 CA-1, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956, and can be reached by phone at 415-663-1347.

The juror for Seen and Imagined was artist and educator Jeremy P. H. Morgan.

Swaptastic! Best of EBPCO Film Swap at Oakland Photo Workshop

Work from two film swaps that I’m part of is included in the East Bay Photo Collective’s exhibition Swaptastic! Best of EBPCO Film Swap at the Oakland Photo Workshop.

I’ve been lucky to work with two extremely talented artists to make this work, which includes a single image and a triptych from my swap with Jenny Sampson of EBPCO.

Here is the single image:

…and here is the triptych:

The exhibition also includes “Beyond the visible world” from the series Tales from a Non-Existent Land, a long-term, ongoing, transatlantic/transcontinental collaboration with Al Brydon:

Swaptastic! runs from January 20 through February 19, with a reception scheduled for Friday, February 3, from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Gallery hours are Fridays, noon - 6:00 p.m.; Saturdays, noon - 6:00 p.m.; and Sundays, noon - 3:00 p.m.

The Oakland Photo Workshop is located at 312 8th st. Oakland, CA 94607 and can be reached by phone at 510- 922-8476.

Shades of Gray at Gray Loft Gallery

My photograph, “The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the exhibition Shades of Gray at Gray Loft Gallery.

Shades of Gray, the final celebration of Gray Loft Gallery’s 10th anniversary year, is a group exhibit selected by Ann Jastrab, executive director of Center for Photographic Art, and Jan Watten, founder of Gray Loft Gallery.  This dynamic group photography show includes a vast array of elegant, cool, and mysterious examples of the color gray - photographs in cool neutrals, sophisticated deep charcoal gray images, glimmers of gray in a color landscape, and the beautiful mid-tones of perfect gelatin silver prints. Mixed media, alternative processes, color imagery, and traditional black and white photographs will be on view.

Examples of photographs in the show can be viewed here.

Participating photographers are Laurel Anderson Malinovsky, Norman Mark Aragones, Minerva Amistoso, Ryn Arnold, Francis Baker, Jayne Biehn, Rose Borden, Maria Budner, Kimberley A. Campisano, Jessica Chen, Sara Chieco, Norma Córdova, Jeffrey Cullen, Anthony Delgado, Tony Devarco, Ann Donahue, Gene Dominique, Bonnie Drucker, Rory Earnshaw, Allyson Ely, Diane Fenster, Robel Fessehatzion , David Gardner ,J. M. Golding, Marsha Guggenheim, Najib Joe Hakim, Chuck Harlins, Brenton Haslam, Richard Hay Jr., Matthew Hoang, Christine Huhn, Candice Jacobus, Becky Jaffe, Phoenix Kanada, Ellen Konar and Steve Goldband, Nadine Levin, Richard Lohmann, Ernie Luppi, Erik Mathy, Sonia Melnikova-Raich, Don Melandry, Melina Meza, Charles Moulton, Eric Murphy, Steve Napoli, Charlotte Niel, Deborah O’Grady, Eben Ostby, Mark Overgaard, Ginny Parsons, Anne Rabe, Steven Raskin, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Charles Reilly, Philip T. Sager, Jenny Sampson, Neocles Serafimidis, Ellen Shershow, Douglas Stinson, Styrous, Gordon Szeto, Alison Taggart-Barone, Michael Teresko, Vince Thomas , George Tomberlin, Jeff Weston, Susan West, Stephanie Williamson, Nick Winkworth, and Yelena Zhavoronkova.

The exhibition runs from December 10, 2022 through January 21, 2023. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, December 10, from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m., and a closing reception for Saturday, January 21, from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m..

Gray Loft Gallery is located at 2889 Ford Street #32 (third floor), Oakland, CA  94601.

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..