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Past ExhibitionsAll images linked to this page are copyright protected by the photographer. Exhibition: Beth Dow, In the Garden & Ann Mitchell, Val Verde Artists reception: Friday, November 7, 6-8 pm Beth Dow's evocative series of platinum/palladium prints, In the Garden, address the ways we shape and experience our environment. Dow developed an interest in unusual landscapes, with formal gardens in particular, while living in London. While most people love gardens for their beauty, Dow is seduced by something else entirely, and her favorite landscapes are overgrown, shaggy, and a bit off their game. Gardens attempt to control and dominate nature, but nature resists - it bolts, leans, withers, and isn't as malleable as we pretend. Dow's platinum prints are warm toned echoing the landscape imagery from the early turn of the century and are strikingly rich in detail. Her work has been shown in the U.S., England, Japan , and China , and has received many awards, including the recent Grand Prize in the Photography.Book.Now. Competition. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, photographer Keith Taylor, and their two children.
Ann Mitchell's extraordinary and poetic portraits of the Val Verde estate as it was transformed into Austin Val Verde evoke the history and artistic achievements of this famous Southern California architectural monument and gardens. Mitchell photographed during the process as it transformed from a personal residence into a cultural arts center. She made more than twenty visits to the estate capturing the grounds and interior spaces using a vintage Crown Graphic 4x5 camera, and Polaroid Type 55 film. Ann Mitchell was born in New York City and raised in California. She received her BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design and her MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Art and the Photography Program Coordinator at Long Beach City College. Her photographs have been included in solo and group exhibitions in the western United States. This past year Balcony Press released a monograph of her Val Verde project entitled Austin Val Verde: Impressions of a Montecito Masterpiece. Her work has been published in LensWork and View Camera magazine. Ann lives in Burbank, CA with her husband and son.
Exhibition: Bird Studies Artists: Jules Greenberg, CA, Neeta Madahar, UK, Paula McCartney, MN, Annie Marie Musselman, WA, Darryl Schmidt, WA, Charlotte Watts, WA Artists reception: Friday, Oct 3, 6-8 pm This exhibition examines beauty and complexity in the lives of birds through contemporary photographic approaches. These 6 artists address nest studies, bird specimen collections, accumulations, bird feeding, forest investigations and bird caretakers & rehabilitation through a wide-range of photographic styles and techniques.
Fallen, by Jules Greenberg, unveils bird specimens normally hidden from view in research collections, offering a confrontation with the dead.
In Neeta Madahar's series, Sustenance, various species of birds came to feed at the apartment balcony of her home in Framingham, Massachusetts and became the subject of exploration.
Paula McCartney's Bird Watching series combines varied natural settings with carefully placed craft store songbirds to create an enhanced landscape.
In a second series, McCartney's Accumulations were created at the edge of the creek where new leaves bud on branches that catch the skeletons of old ones that have drifted down stream to form a collected entity.
In Finding Trust, Annie Marie Musselman photographed birds at the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Arlington, Washington. Injured birds throughout the Northwest are brought to Sarvey where Musselman captures the relationship between the birds and those that love and care for them.
In Northwest Nests Darryl Schmidt collected nests from forests and gardens near his Bainbridge Island home. These engineering marvels of nature are a perfect combination of instinct and ingenuity.
Charlotte Watts follows bird songs and animal paths in the forest sanctuary that surround her home in Sequim, WA. She waits in the soft crepuscular light and photographs the remnants of a trail, the location of their calls, the faint sound of wings, the crackling of twigs, their unseen presence. Please Ring Bell, 13th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition Juror: Rod Slemmons, Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
Winners:
Honorable Mentions:
Press about the show: This annual juried exhibition draws entries from across the country and around the world, and remains among the most popular shows in PCNW's annual schedule. The competition is open to all photographers, all photographic processes, and all themes. The juror looks for work that represents a larger, cohesive body of work and selects a short series from each photographer chosen. Mr. Slemmons chooses three artists deemed Best of Show that receive Awards in the amount of $1,000, $750, and $500. Nearly 500 artists submit work resulting in over 2500 images from which to choose. The result is an exhibit full of surprises - fresh, exciting work by both established and emerging artists. Juror: Rod Slemmons has been the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago since 2002 where he has curated several exhibitions and teaches undergraduate photo history and graduate theory seminars. Slemmons previously taught at the U.W. in Seattle for 12 years. He was the National Chair of the Society for Photographic Education from 1990 - 1994. Slemmons was the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Seattle Art Museum for 14 years, producing 35 exhibitions and numerous catalogs.
Juror's Statement I am always tempted when working on a juried competition to try to curate a show out of the entries. It has never worked, either because the rational would be too complicated or because the entries are all over the place. But strangely there always is some hint of coherence, some common thread to the selections that doesn't completely make it into consciousness. The main advantage, and a big one, for a museum person like myself is that I get to see totally new work, the beginning of new trends and genres, and even some really great work. It is never boring. It is important to remember that I am one person with a set of tastes and expectations. Next year it undoubtedly will be somebody with a completely opposite set that would not approve of what I chose. This is not a democratic operation. I would like to thank Ann and the rest of the crew at PCNW for inviting
me-and especially for the opportunity to come back to our old haunts in
Seattle where we lived for so many years. Please Ring Bell Exhibiting Artists
Lecture: Photography Without Borders: Medium, Media, Meditation. Rod Slemmons, former Associate Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Seattle Art Museum will discuss his view of photography as an art making tool today from his perspective as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. He will address the continuing shift from analog to digital imaging as well as very recent conceptual trends in the U.S. and abroad.
PCNW Thesis Exhibition & Graduation
Photographic Center Northwest presents the 2008 Thesis Exhibition, showcasing work by five graduating students from the Certificate Program. These graduating students each possess a style uniquely their own, but together they share a passion for fine art photography that has sustained them while they honed their skills through years of in-depth study. Please join us in recognizing the accomplishments of five insightful students & their bodies of work evolved from intense course of study and critique.
In Male Abstractions, Pete LePage gracefully explores the male figure as an abstract art form, rather than the traditional beefcake stereotype or as an object of lust. LePage looks for positions that the body flows through, instead of stopping at; not necessarily super flexible or well defined, just willing and able to move through a given point.
Eberhard Riedel was born in Germany at the beginning of World War II. His evocative portraits of people of eastern and southern Africa reflect his lifelong struggle with the human consequences of racism and genocide. Africa: Face to Face, explores our shared humanity and curiosity about self and other, acting as an immunization against fundamentalism and tribalism. Teaching photography to children in these areas of Africa, Riedel was able to better understand and gain the trust of the people he photographed.
Normal American child of divorce, brother, and painter at 27 Bret Hart suffered a traumatic brain injury in 1993. This work by his sister, Cass Walker, documents their family's gradual redefinition of a new norm, one achieved and sustained with quiet heroism and daily effort, in Making a New Normal.
The images in Evidence of the Moment, work by Gina White, evoke sensual elements of living in the now-awareness of the light, the moment and the relative stillness of that place.
In a revisiting of the places of her childhood in the Pacific northwest, Linda Wilson's Coming of Age series evoke the moody landscape of youth and its' inextricable tie to the environment which becomes the window of memory. In an adjunct show to Riedels thesis studies, PCNW displays additional work upstairs entitled: Cameras without Borders: An Exhibition of Photographs by African Children. The photographs in this exhibit were taken by children in Namibia, South Africa and Uganda as they explored their world through the lens of a camera. PCNW graduate and social worker, Eberhard Riedel, in Uganda with Canadian photographer Craig Richards, worked with groups of young people in difficult environments to raise curiosity and self-awareness through photography. Sugar and Spice Susan Anderson, Amy Stevens, Alex Prager The Photographic Center Northwest is proud to present Sugar and Spice, an exhibition of color photographs by Susan Anderson, Amy Stevens and Alex Prager. These three artists, hailing from Los Angeles and Philadelphia, contribute their own visual perspectives on our societyÍs obsessive desire to dress up, decorate and dramatize. The subtle oddities and imperfections within reveal an inherent and unexpected beauty all its own.
Susan Anderson's surreal documentary portrait series, High Glitz, is shot on location at several of our nation's child beauty pageants. Setting up her studio amidst the colorful spectacle, she captures the young girls at the height of their performance. Hours of preparation are spent on each child's appearance, her camera recording every detail. Children's pageants are a fascinating subculture, but more than anything they represent a strange microcosm of America itself. Our own values of beauty, success and glamour reflected in the dreams of thousands of young girls... Anderson is a Los Angeles-based fine art, commercial and editorial photographer specializing in portraiture, beauty, fashion and conceptual/narrative work. After earning her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, Anderson relocated to Los Angeles in 2001. Her editorial work has appeared in a variety of magazines including Los Angeles, Glamour and Playboy. Chronicle Books has commissioned her to illustrate their wildly successful series of humorous trade paperbacks, Porn for Women, and the sequel, Porn for New Moms. Her fine art photography is represented by Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.
Amy Stevens' Confections series started as a response to turning 30 with the idea that she would bake 30 cakes! She ordered a kit from Martha Stewart.com that included an instructional video. When she discovered her cakes were never going to look like the ones in the video she was free to make them as grotesque and amazing as possible-an act of rebellion. Stevens graduated with a BFA in Photography and a certificate in Women's Studies from Arizona State University in 1998. In 2005 she earned her MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. In 2007 she completed a two-year career development fellowship with The Center for Emerging Visual Artists and was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Independence Foundation. Her work has been included in numerous solo & group exhibitions in cities such as Albuquerque, Boston, Cleveland, Michigan, Montreal, Philadelphia & Portland.
In Polyester, Alex Prager's cinematic approach is reminiscent of the mid 20th century angst and naivety that Hitchcock, John Waters, and David Lynch portrayed. Stories unfold with each photograph that stimulate the senses. Playful yet bizarre scenes are a balancing act between fantasy and reality. Prager has caught her heroines in a gauzy instant, the moment just before we could have seen them stepping into some glamorous but debauched intrigue. A native to Los Angeles, Alex Prager's photography career began on the cusp of her teens. After holding down a slew of jobs in the private sector, from selling knives to washing cars, Prager, so inspired by the modern works of William Eggleston, decided to make the leap to full time photographer. At 22, Prager started shooting fashion editorials for high profile magazines such as Flaunt and V while simultaneously forging a path on the Los Angeles independent gallery circuit, hosting solo as well as group shows almost every other month. As her list of collectors grew, so did her list of clients: Geffen, Warner, I-D, Elle & Complex. Prager's fine art photography is represented by Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica.
Crossing the Water: A Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World Claire Garoutte & Anneke Wambaugh
The Photographic Center Northwest is pleased to present a unique and riveting photographic exhibition, entitled Crossing the Water: A Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World, by local photographers and authors Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh. The 50 images selected for this show and the thought-provoking text panels that accompany it have been edited from their upcoming book of the same title. This Duke University Press publication was released January 2008. Focusing on a single ritual expert and his religious environment, the exhibition offers an unusually intimate and dynamic view of the Cuban religious practices of Santería, Palo Monte, and Espiritismo. Compelling photographs, informed text panels, and succinct captions combine to illustrate the spiritual power and energy of ritual as enacted by Santiago Castañeda Vera, a highly respected priest living in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. Santiago’s embrace of more than one religion and the practice of blending aspects of different traditions are by no means unusual in Cuba. Over the last century, there has been a great deal of symbiotic interplay between Santería and Palo Monte, on the one hand, and of these Afro-Cuban religious traditions with Roman Catholicism and Espiritismo, on the other. This cross-fertilization is particularly pronounced on the eastern end of the island. Santiago, although rooted in particular spiritual traditions, has forged his own path. Free to combine, transform, improvise, and innovate as he sees fit, Santiago practices his religion, as he is wont to say, en mi manera—"in my own way." The photographic essays in this exhibition focus on Santiago Castañeda Vera’s ritual artistry and on the sacred objects, thrones, and altars that mediate his ongoing dialogue with the spirit world. The text panels draw on interviews with this prolific priest, scholarly research, and the personal experience of the authors. Complementing the photographs, they anchor the viewer in Santiago’s world and contextualize his ideas within the larger spectrum of Afro-Cuban spirituality. Local artists, Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh, bring years of experience and research to this exhibition. Their evocative photographs not only draw the viewer into a world rarely witnessed by outsiders. They offer viewers an unprecedented opportunity to better understand the diversity of Afro-Cuban religious traditions. This deeply affecting visual document encourages its audience to look beyond stereotypical depictions of a religious culture and a nation that have so often been misrepresented and misunderstood. Claire Garoutte is Assistant Professor of Photography at Seattle University. Her work has appeared in exhibits in the United States and abroad. Garoutte began photographing Afro-Cuban religious practices in Cuba in 1994. She is the author and illustrator of Matter of Trust. Anneke Wambaugh is an award-winning photographer and an independent scholar of African and Afro-Caribbean ritual art who has worked extensively in Cuba and Haiti. She works as a Haitian Creole interpreter in Seattle. For more exhibition images & information see www.crossingthewater.com What's Not to Love? Rachel Herman, Molly Landreth, Jenny Riffle
Rachel Herman dipicts how love bends but doesn't necessarily break. In her series, The Imp of Love, Rachel Herman photographs couples, who were once lovers but are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined anymore, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively -- even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward or confusingly tender. Herman received her MFA from the University of Chicago, and is currently an instructor at Evanston Art Center. She was a teaching assistant to Laura Letinsky for two years and was an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Chicago and Kansas City and has been published in the Chicago Tribune.
In Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America, Molly Landreth's photographs serve as an archive and a journey through a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who bravely offer new visions of what it means to be queer. Even in a world where progressive attitudes are beginning to take hold, to be "out" and visible, is to become both empowered and vulnerable. Embodiment is about love and the process of growing into ones self and the complexity of relationships found between diverse groups of people. Molly Landreth received her B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College in Claremont, California in 2001 where she cultivated her love for photography, digital & feminist art and art history. In 2005 she received a M.F.A. in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is currently living and working in Seattle, WA and exhibiting nationally. This project is being funded in part by a grant from the Humble Arts Foundation.
In her series, The Space In Between, Jenny Riffle investigates the practice of empathy and the psychological spaces of people that surround her and are most dear to her. Drawing attention to small gestures she turns the mundane into the mythical, creating allegorical tableaus that relate the emotional state of her friends and family. Riffle was born in Washington State in 1979. She studied at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and received her BA in photography in 2001. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in WA, CA and NY. Recent awards include: Critical Mass Finalist 2007, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention in 2007, and Photographer's Forum, Best of Photography 2006, Finalist.
January 19 – February 27, 2008 Snowbound & The Last Iceberg
Lisa M. Robinson For five winters, the young American photographer Lisa M. Robinson made photographs in the snow. Snowbound depicts landscapes in which everyday objects-alienated and sunken in snow – civilize the natural surroundings. Traces of human existence set accents in the white landscape, delimiting it and often popping up in an amusing or incongruous way. A lonely hammock, a trampoline or swimming pool are echoes of both the summer past and of personal memories. But Lisa M. Robinson is not interested in showing the obvious; instead, the photographer makes use of the many aggregate states of water – ice, snow, fog, water – as metaphors for life and transience. Lisa Robinson graduate cum laude from Columbia University, and received her MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. After moving to NY, she became printing assistant for George Tice. Awards include a Fulbright Grant, as well as “Curator’s Choice” at Houston Center of Photography Membership Exhibition and “Top 50 Photographers” chosen by Critical Mass. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work, and was recently selected as the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Snowbound has been exhibited internationally in Argentina, Syria, Lithuania, Denmark, Uruguay, Chile and Bolivia. Her work is in such collections as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; and Fidelity Investments. Lisa M. Robinson was recently nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant.
Camille Seaman The Last Iceberg, a series by Camille Seaman chronicles a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. Seaman approaches the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of her ancestors. She seeks a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures. These images were made in both the Arctic regions of Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica. Camille Seaman (Shinnecock Tribe b.1969) is an Award winning American photographer best known for her evocative Polar images. Capturing the essence of awe and beauty of indigenous cultures and environments, in a sophisticated documentary/fine art tradition is her trademark. Camille has traveled to over 30 countries creating timeless images. Seaman's work has been exhibited and published in magazines internationally. Recent awards include an Artist in Residence onboard M/V Orlova in Antarctica, 2007, Critical Mass Top Monograph Book Award, 2006, & National Geographic Award, 2006. Her education includes Master Workshops with Seve McCurry, Sebastiao Salgado, Paul Fusco, Eli Reed and Donovan Wylie, Antonin Kratochvil. She has a BFA from State University of New York at Purchase. PCNW MEMBERS’ JURIED EXHIBITION Juror: Marisa Sanchez, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum Exhibition Dates: November 30 - January 15 The Photographic Center Northwest’s Members’ Exhibition is juried by Marisa Sanchez, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum. This selection of prints features a range of work including landscapes, aerials, portraits, narratives, conceptual still lifes, abstracts & objects worthy of interest in typological studies. Sanchez chose 1-4 images per artist. PCNW members are amongst the most unique emerging and established artists in the country working in analog, digital and alternative processes. Three cash prizes will be awarded by Marisa Sanchez at the opening reception on November 30th, 6-8pm. 1st Place Award Tealia Ellis-Ritter
2nd Place Alejandro Cartagena
3rd Place Pipi
Honorable Mention
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Marisa C. Sánchez is the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum. Beginning in late April 2007, Sánchez joined SAM’s curatorial staff, working closely with Michael Darling, the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Since February 2003, Marisa had been at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) as curatorial assistant in the photography department. In this position she curated a number of exhibits including Two Women Look West, a large-scale exhibition of 85 photographs dating from the 1930s – 1960s and The Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures. Sánchez has also written criticism for publications, and has served on the Board of Houston's Lawndale Art Center where she has worked with contemporary artists on exhibitions of their work and co-organized a symposium on alternative art spaces. A native of New Jersey, Marisa holds a Masters in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. FotoShop Holiday Sale! Support photographers and PCNW by giving the gift of art this holiday season. The Fotoshop Holiday Bin Sale includes moderately priced prints by students, faculty, staff, members and clients. Join us for the opening night, Friday, November 30th, for the best selection. Cheap Shot, Plastic Cameras: the low tech of high art 6 Artists from the U.S.: Michelle Bates, WA, Susan Burnstine, CA, Rosanna Salonia, AZ, Gordon Stettinius, VA, Jennifer Shaw, LA, Shannon Welles, WA The exhibition, Cheap Shot: the low tech of high art, refers to the making of stellar art with inexpensive toy cameras, roughly a $20 commitment. These cameras can reveal mysterious ways of interpreting the world around us, even with light leaks, irregular vignetted corners and soft focus at times. These artists shoot their surroundings through their various types of plastic camera lenses. The photographs range from simple humorous snap-shot like moments to contemplative wonders of the natural and traveled world. What else do these six artists have in common besides their plastic camera lenses? They are all well accomplished and have been sharing their work at the many portfolio review events throughout the country, such as Photolucida in Portland, Review Santa Fe, & Fotofest in Houston. The international portfolio review events are fantastic direct avenues for sharing work and networking with the larger photography community in the U.S, including artists, well known curators, museum directors and gallery owners! It was through these gatherings that this show of plastic camera imagery came together by PCNW’s Gallery Director. Each artists’ vision is unique and printing techniques vary with toners, beeswax and varnished finishes.
Michelle Bates Michelle Bates, well known in Seattle for being a Holga Camera Fanatic, has shown her work in solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles and Israel ,and in group shows in New York, Texas, California, and Italy. Her work ranges from fun and quirky to subtle and organic photographing urban nature. She has photographed for weekly newspapers, album covers, performers, artists, and many others. Michelle has presented lectures and workshops on plastic and toy cameras around the US, including to the Society for Photographic Education, SF Camerawork, and the Creative Center for Photography. Her book, "Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity" was published in late 2006 by Focal Press. She teaches at the Photographic Center Northwest, the Julia Dean Workshops (LA) and at International Center of Photography in New York.
Susan Burnstine Los Angeles based photographer, Susan Burnstine, builds homemade medium format cameras and lenses out of plastic, vintage camera parts and random household objects. Effects are created entirely In-Camera. The result of this creative endeavor is apparent in her series, On Waking Dreams. It explores that fleeting moment between dreaming and waking--the blurred seconds in which imagination and reality collide. Susan earned B&W Magazine's Excellence Award for the 2006 Portfolio Contest, and she's been featured in Black and White Photography Magazine, Shots Magazine, Professional Photographer Magazine, Kamera & Bild Magazine, Camera Arts and has been nominated for the 2007 Aperture West Book Prize.
Rosanna Salonia In Rosanna Salonia’s universi series, nature, beauty and human folly are explored. She wanders the earth searching for magic which she sometimes is able to capture through her Holga lens and her serendipitous manipulations. She is interested in capturing the sublime qualities of an experience and bringing them to the viewer in the most sensual manner she is able to concoct. Her gelatin silver prints are manipulated with a variety of photographic and household materials - pure beeswax allows her to incapsulate, preserve and solidify the photographic objects she creates. Often these are presented in found wooden boxes, allowing the viewer to touch and smell as well as see and feel. Hailing from Milan, Italy, Rosanna receives a BFA in Fine Art Photography and a BA in Art History from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2000. Her works have been exhibited and published in the US, Argentina, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, and Japan. They can be found in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, The University of Arizona Special Collections, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan, and the International Center of Photography in Verona, Italy.
Jennifer Shaw In walking with her camera, Jennifer Shaw of New Orleans, finds the act of seeing a process of emotional intuition. Her images serve as evidence of her strange and wonderful findings.
Gordon Stettinius Gordon Stettinius has been using the Diana and Holga Cameras and other low tech and vintage box cameras for nearly twenty years. Gordon’s images are from a diaristic body of work entitled Gord Is Dead. These photos are a medley of a sort. In his life, there are children and loved ones and juice spills and helium voices. Just beneath the surface though, is sentimentality and concern and, of course, some unsightly weight gain and then probably incontinence. The images are evocative of response in and of themselves. As the images mingle through the modern miracle of editing, they create various undertones and arrive at all manner of daunting syllogisms. Gordon Stettinius lives and works in Richmond, Virginia where he teaches in the Art Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. His toy camera work has been featured commercially on bookjackets and CD covers and national magazines. This year Gordon has exhibited his work in solo shows in Virginia and New York and has been included in the Noörderlicht Festival in the Netherlands as well in various group shows.
Shannon Welles Seattle photographer Shannon Welles strives to make palpable the whispers of secrets and history held in a place. Her work primarily stems from stillness, and she is drawn to old worlds, abandoned places, spiritual haunts and mystical spaces. The camera becomes a tool for distillation, a visual listening device, an interpreter, tapping into a world long gone for the briefest of moments. She is in love with her toy cameras, turning her back a bit on modern technology. In doing so, a more intimate image making process has emerged. The unique lith prints she creates are then finished with a beeswax coating and mounted on thin wood. Her work has been in exhibitions in the Northwest and she is head of Seattle’s SlideLuck Potshow, and has been published in Lightleaks Magazine
Diane Fenster, Carol Golemboski, Maura Sullivan Three photographers reveal their dark sides.
Maura Sullivan’s images from Selected Stories are like the torn out pages from a made up book. In the shadows of New York City tenement buildings, in front of the peeling walls of old hotels, she imagines who lived there & what could have happened there. Alone in a hotel, a woman remembers her mother, jumping from a staircase, a cool marble floor, a promise ... Sullivan is intrigued by the history of places, and by the way an ordinary space can become a portal into another world. She explores the feelings we all share, about fear and love and a time lost. Maura Sullivan was born in 1971 in Hartford Connecticut. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is widely exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in New York City, Connecticut, New Jersey, Portland Oregon and Krakow Poland. Sullivan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Syracuse University B.F.A and has attended the International School of Photography. Her photographs were featured in the movie “The Devil Wears Prada” and published in Shots Magazine, Antiques weekly, International Italian Photo Magazine Private, and the Sun.
Carol Golemboski’s Psychometry is a series manipulated gelatin silver prints exploring issues relating to anxiety, loss, and existential doubt. The term refers to the pseudo-science of "object reading," the purported psychic ability to divine the history of objects through physical contact. Like amateur psychometrists, viewers are invited to interpret arrangements of tarnished and weathered objects, relying on the talismanic powers inherent in the vestiges of human presence. These images suggest a world in which ordinary belongings transcend their material nature to evoke the elusive presence of the past. Golemboski has been the recipient of numerous grants including fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and Light Work. She was the 2007 Project Competition Winner for Santa Fe’s CENTER. Images from her Psychometry series have been published in Lens Work, Contact Sheet, and AfterImage. She is represented by the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles, the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, the Sandy Carson Gallery in Denver, Addison Arts in Santa Fe, and the Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Golemboski resides in Denver, CO.
PHOTOVISION 2007 AUCTION PREVIEW EXHIBIT Established and emerging photographers have donated their work to make the PhotoVision Award possible. This is your opportunity to see these remarkable photographs before the event
Visit our online catalogue of participating photographers -- regional and national artists who donated work to the PhotoVisio Auction on September 29, 2007 PHOTOVISION 2007 AWARD DINNER & AUCTION
Beginning with drinks and hors d'oeuvres in PCNW's gallery, the evening will conclude with a three-course dinner and auction in PCNW's festive on-site tent. Photographers from across the country have donated works to be auctioned in support of PCNW's programs and facilities. Keith Carter, whose widely published work has won him an international reputation, will preside as our guest of honor. This event promises to be an evening celebrating the achievement and contribution of photography in our lives and is an invitation to the Pacific Northwest community and beyond to come together to honor today's most powerful and relevant visual art form. Seating will be limited, and we certainly hope you will join us. Reservations may be made by calling 206.720.7222 ext. 10 or online at BrownPaperTickets. All those reserving will receive written confirmation of their reservation status. Tickets are $140 each. Tables of up to 10 places are available. Up & Now 12th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition Juror: Charlotte Cotton, Curator of Photography, LACMA 1 st Place , ($1000)
Park depicts Korean students of various specialty or vocational schools as they express their individuality by pressing the limits of their school uniform dress codes, against the backdrop of rapidly changing Seoul .
2 nd Place ($500)
Fougeron's photographs explore adolescence and reflects the mother photographer's interactions with her subject children. She is inspired by Dutch painters as well as set contemporary cinematic lighting techniques, and she is currently an instructor at the International Center for Photography, in New York , which Getty Images also supports on an ongoing basis.
3 rd Place , ($250)
Daniel is drawn to the peripheries of China 's cities – the strange and nebulous region where urban and rural, old and new China meet in seemingly theatrical landscapes that are emblematic of China as a whole: unresolved, abrasive and often contradictory. Traub sees photographing this environment as a way of understanding China 's history as well as a method of decoding its future. Honorable Mentions:
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