Happy Summer! We had a busy and exciting Spring quarter at PCNW, and as always, our members continue to inspire us with their creativity. For this quarter’s Member Showcase, we’re featuring the work of Michael Quinonez, Shaughn Fitzgerald, Justin Jakubisn, and Uday Mittal. A big thank you to each of them for sharing their incredible work with the PCNW community!
We often receive more submissions than we can feature. If you were not selected, please submit again, especially if you have new work to share. The deadline to submit for the next showcase is August 27th, 2025.
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What are you working on?
Shortly after getting into Photography in the Summer of 2023, I found myself watching and photographing a lot of American Crows here in the Pacific Northwest. They have a lot of personality, and are quite fearless despite their size. I never intended to make a project out of it, but once the crows stopped roosting and returned to their territories for nesting I noticed I had quite a bit of Crow photographs and have begun to work on my first book.
Artist Statement
The book form is especially dear to me – it can have a more complex expression than a single image, and I love the materiality of paper and ink. I find great satisfaction in printing and binding my own books as one-of-a-kind or small hand-made editions. Lately, I’ve been experimenting with book structures that can shift the scale of the viewer’s experience (especially for landscapes) and alter the normal progress through a book. The recent book, Pictures from a Train, is one attempt (see link below).
Mainly I make portraits – of people, objects, a place, a memory, a question. My commitment is to go beyond the simple appearance of things, while remaining rooted in their physical presence. I hope that my work can move others to question, wonder, explore.
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What are you working on?
I have rediscovered cyanotypes and my love of photography after many years away from printing. I’m currently working on several series. The images shared in this submission are part of a macrophotography project, focused on plants, natural elements, and the sea.
Artist Statement
Through macrophotography and my experiences in nature, I feel alive and connected to the universe. Nature has inspired me to create and continue to look closely, think more deeply. There is fragile beauty everywhere in the natural world, but it is fleeting. This moment is all there is, really. Through photography, I am able to capture the moment and meditate longer on the beautiful shapes the plant, animal, fungus or rock has to offer. By working with the image using the sun, light sensitive salts, and the slow exposures, I feel tapped into the flow of the universe and happy. The goal is to get to that flow state. These images are the output of one such flow state.
What are you working on?
I just wrapped up Photo III with the brilliant Rachel Demy, where we took a deep dive into photography theory, because apparently, thinking about how you look at things actually makes you better at looking at them. Who knew? I usually focus on architectural photography, but lately I’ve been venturing into nature and even experimenting with street photography. Yes, people have started appearing in my photos. It’s wild. I’m grateful for the PCNW community, which is thoughtful, talented, and supportive, and for all the experiences that have helped sharpen both my eye and my sense of humor behind the lens.
Artist Statement
An inventory of escape
The free MLS catalog at the grocery store was my first escape hatch. As a kid in rural Ohio, I flipped through the listings like they were alternate timelines, homes that promised a different kind of life. Each home helped me disassociate from the one I lived in. The houses weren’t just homes. They were fantasies I could walk through.
My series returns to this longing: nine single-family homes, photographed head-on and in high contrast, as if being formally introduced. Many are modest, aging, still standing in a neighborhood reshaped by density. This is a record of what remains—and what is quietly disappearing. I used to imagine myself in these homes, now I photograph them, knowing they were never really mine to begin with.
What are you working on?
I took the Contemporary Long Form Photographic Storytelling with Erika this last quarter. I worked on a photo essay depicting my journey into early parenthood with conceptual imagery. I am sharing a selection of images from that project.
The entire sequence can be found at: https://www.mittaluday.com/recent-work/impulse-response
Artist Statement
Impulse Response
A profound personal transformation ignites the moment one becomes a parent—marking a sudden and powerful shift in life’s entire course. ‘Impulse Response’ is a photographic exploration of this deeply emotional journey. Recognizing that words often fall short, this series employs abstract and conceptual imagery to resonate with the nuanced, often unspoken feelings accompanying this new life: the reshaping of time, the search for inner balance, the spectrum of intense moments, and the unwavering patience and devotion that emerge. The photographs aim to capture the essence of this transformative ‘response,’ offering a glimpse into the beautiful and bewildering landscape of early parenthood.
