First Annual PhotoVision Award

Photographers from here in Seattle and across the nation have been extremely generous in showing their support for Photographic Center Northwest through the donation of works to be auctioned off when we gather on October 6 for the inagural PhotoVision Award dinner and auction. We are very excited by the extraordinary quality of photographs submitted, and know that you will be too.

We invite you to take a look at some of our participating photographers below. If you have questions about specific works in advance of the auction, feel free to email us at events@pcnw.org.
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Brian Allen
PCNW at Twilight
C-Print (from 4” x 5 neg)
16” x 20" (22” x 26" framed) 2004
Value: $350

Brian has taught at PCNW for many years. His art photos are in the collections of the Alaska State Museum, the University of Alaska Museum, the Anchorage Museum and the Alaska Airlines Corporate Offices.
Judy Allen
Touched, #3 (needle/thread)
silver gelatin print (matted & framed)
12 1/2” x 9 1/2" (20” x 16" framed) 2000
Value: $300

Judy Allen is a photographic and mixed media artist, who received an NEA Visual Artist Fellowship in 1990 and a Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award in 1994. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Cornish College of the Arts. Exhibitions include: Center on Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Priceless Works Gallery, Photographic Center Northwest, Bellevue Art Museum, SF Camerawork, & SF Arts Commission Gallery.
John Armstrong
Morning
from the Seawall series

Gelatin Silver Print
16” x 20" framed 2006
Value: $375

John Armstrong is a Seattle photographer who finds most of his subjects simply by keeping his eyes open. Perhaps due to his early years in the Chicago area, John often photographs in urban areas. His photos often depict the human condition: people, juxtapositions, windows, signs, irony and humor.
Arthur S. Aubrey
Fork Lift Pallets
1 of 5

C-print
20” x 20" (28” x 29" framed)
Value: $1500

Arthur S. Aubry moved to Seattle from New Jersey in 1983 and now considers himself a local. He has been exhibiting his photographs since 1989 at various local galleries, including Luna Ganon and The Esther Claypool Galleries. His work is in numerous corporate collections, including Microsoft and Safeco, as well as in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Henry Art Museum, and the Allen Museum at Oberlin College. Mr. Aubry makes his own photographs using traditional methods; he does not own a computer. He is currently represented by the Gitterman Gallery in Manhattan, with his first solo show there this past December.
Cara Barer
Additional information to come.
Michelle Bates
Nature in the City
silver gelatin print
11” x 12" (15” x 16" framed) 2005
Value: $350

Michelle Bates has been photographing with Holga plastic cameras (among others) since 1991. She is the author of Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, published by Focal Press. She teaches workshops here and nationally, and plans to have her book launch party at PCNW later this month (Oct.)
Nealy Blau
Columbine, Denver Natural History Museum
Chromogenic print
20” x 24" 2005
Value: $700

Nealy is a local photographer. She has been photographing landscapes in natural history museums around the nation since 2003. She would like to express her gratitude to the PCNW for the many, many years of happy printing in their facilities.
Tyler Boley
Dungeness, WA
Northwest Landscapes

photograph
28” x 19.76" 1986 neg, 2006 print
Value: $650

Tyler Bolay has been actively involved in B&W fine art Northwest landscape photography for over 20 years. He has been producing award-winning commercial photography for over 15 years, and is an acknowledged master at fine art digital ink printing techniques.
James Carbone
Wedding in Potchutla, Oaxaca 2005
#1

35mm black and white print
16” x 20" 2006
Value: $400

For the past six years, James Carbone has studied under the world-renowned documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark. The two started working together at Rockport College in Maine and have continued at PCNW and Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo in Oaxaca, México. Carbone's specialty is shooting black and white film, using classic documentary photography skills. His work is characterized by human touch.
Kieth Carter
Additional information to come.
Elinor Carucci
Eran needs to be woken up
Color photography
11” x 14" 2001
Value: $1000

Elinor Carucci, Photographer; born in Israel, internationally exhibited - solo shows at the Herzlia Museum for Contemporary Art, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, London among others. Her photographs are included in collections in the US (The Museum of Modern Art NY, Brooklyn Museum of Arts, ICP, The Jewish Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, etc.), Europe and Israel. Work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, including a portfolio of her work published on May 22, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, Details, W and more. Recipient of numerous awards including the ICP Infinity Award (2001), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002). Author, Closer, Chronicle Books 2002, Diary of a dancer, SteidlMack 2005. Carucci is currently teaching in the School of Visual Arts and is represented by Art & Commerce, New York and by Edwynn Houk gallery, New York.
John Chervinsky
In Motion… At Rest
An Experiment in Perspective

Archival Inkjet Print
18” x 23" image on 23” x 28" paper 2005
Value: $1200

Ann Elliott Cutting
Additional information to come.
Randy Dana
Tulips with Pear Blossom
from edition of 50

C-print
33” x 29" framed 2005
Value: $475

Former PCNW student exhibits at art festivals throughout USA. Skagit Valley Tulip Festival poster artist, 2000 and 2003. Lives in Mount Vernon, WA.
David Darby
Additional information to come.
Anna Mia Davidson
Additional information to come.
Bruce Davidson
Junior at Coke Machine
Brooklyn Gang, 1959

Fiber print
16” x 20"
Value: $2500

Bruce Davidson began photography at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. In 1947, at the age of 16, he won his first prize in the Kodak National High School Competition. He went on to attend The Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University. After military servicein 1957, he worked as a freelance photographer for Life Magazine and in 1958, became a member of Magnum Photos, the international photography agency. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 to document the South during the civil rights movement. In 1967 he was awarded the first grant for photography from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ineke deLange
Braided
Equus

B/W Lith Print
6” x 9" image (14” x 18" framed) 2003
Value: $425

Inneke has taken classes at PCNW since 1996, receiving her certificate in 2002. She continues to volunteer and take classes and workshops.
Nichole DeMent
The Nest 2
Silver Gelatin print with hand markings
11” x 14" 2003
Value: $475

Nichole DeMent is a photographic artist that teaches at Pacific Lutheran University and PCNW. Her fine art photographs have been collected internationally. New work can be viewed at her contemporary artist loft, Rock/DeMent visual art space, located in Pioneer Square's Tashiro Kaplan building.
Harold Edgerton
Cutting the Card Quickly
C-print
8 1/2” x 11" 1964
Value: $1000

Harold Edgerton was born and raised in Nebraska. He attended MIT as a graduate student and continued as a professor of Electrical Engineering from 1926-1990. He developed and perfected the stroboscope for use in both ultra high speed and still (or stop motion) photography in 1931. His development of a novel "inside out" high energy air spark made possible the intense flash of light with a duration of less than a microsecond (of duration) that was used to make this photograph. A 0.30 caliber bullet traveling at 2,800 ft/sec requires an exposure time of less than one millionth of a second to keep the blur on the bullet to a small value.
Tom Feher
Tulips
Platinum/Palladium print
5” x 7" 1999
Value: $500

Tom Feher is a Seattle-based photographer who gave up medicine for photography and has never looked back. He has been making hand-coated platinum-palladium prints for the past decade.
Paul Ford
Crosses
Palermo, Sicily

Silver gelatin print
Value: $650

Paul Ford is a fine art photographer who resides in Seattle. He has had solo shows and his work has been selected for numerous juried shows. His work is permanently displayed at Seattle's Hotel Max and in the book Maximalism. He's taken many classes at Photographic Center Northwest.
Davis Freeman
9th Ward NOLA 7-06
Digital print
14” x 14" unframed 2006
Value: $650

Davis' work is collected by, among others, WSU, City of Seattle, Ralph Lauren Collection, Tacoma Glass Museum. He has had exhibitions to include: NYC, Amsterdam, Seattle, Houston Fotofest and Milan.
Wyatt Gallery
Wyatt Gallery graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1997, then received the Daniel Rosenberg Travel Grant followed by the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship in 1999 to photograph in Trinidad. Gallery's work has been featured in PDN magazine several times including PDN's 30 under 30 and Rising Star. He was also featured in the book 25 under 25, Up-And-Coming American Photographers by The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. An Adjunct Professor of Color Photography at University of Pennsylvania from 2002-2005, Gallery took a leave of absence to pursue his current series: Remnants: After the Storm.
Ellen Garvens
Plaster Room
Lao/Cambodia

Inkjet (archival)
19” x 24" 2005
Value: $1000

Ellen Garvens has received a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship Grant, and an Artist Trust/Washington State Fellowship. Her work has been reviewed in Arts Magazine, Art on Paper, Sculpture Magazine, The Village Voice, New Art Examiner, the New York Times, Creative Camera London, and SF Camerawork. She currently teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Tim Greyhavens
Blue #5
Incantations

Archival digital print
14” x 14" (24” x 24" framed) 2000
Value: $600

Tim Greyhavens is an award-winning photographer from Seattle. Over the past ten years his photos have been exhibited in public and private galleries across the country, including the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History and a one-person show at the Photographic Center Northwest. He photographs the natural world of people and places less touched by everyday life.
Toni Hafkenscheid
Train Snaking, Highway 1, British Columbia
C-print
20” x 20" 2000
Value: $1000

Toni Hafkensheid was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. From 1990-1995 he was active in the arts community in Toronto. Between 1996-2002 he pursued a career as a commerical photographer in Amsterdam. In 2002 Toni moved back to Toronto and is currently teaching at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Todd Hido
Untitled
C print
8" x 10" 2006
Value: $1500
Craig Huber
Iglesia de Penafiel
Colonial Mexico

Platinum/Palladium
11” x 14" matted 2004
Value: $250

My vision hinges on mixing abstraction with reality, which asks the viewer to evaluate the image at face value as well as imaging the possibilities of what's beneath. I strive to illustrate how we can positively impact the environment when influenced by divine forces or the inspiration to achieve harmony with nature or the immediate surroundings.
Derek Johnson
The Preacher Man

Color Glicee Print
16” x 20" 2006
Value: $500

Derek has lived in Detroit, NYC and now Seattle and worked as a photographer for 15 years. Derek runs his own commercial photo business and does fine art photography. Derek is currently working on a portrait series. See website for more info: www.onart.net
Eirik Johnson
untitled (never-land)
BORDERLANDS

chromogenic print
20” x 24" 2005
Value: $2200

Eirik Johnson is the recipient of the 2005 Santa Fe Prize for Photography, a Washington State Artist Trust Grant, and a William J. Fulbright Grant. His first monograph, BORDERLANDS, was published in 2005 by Twin Palm Publishers and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. He is an assistant professor at Massachusetts College of Art.
Chris Jordan
Additional information to come.
David Julian
Mary and Cross, Arabi LA, 2005
Archival Pigment Print
20" x 17" 2005
Value: $1200

Working as a photographic and mixed media artist, I interpret the dark beauty that I see in our environment, cultures and world events. I am drawn to psychology and ritual, and to those who see art as integral to being human. My work is published and collected internationally, and I enjoy sharing creative growth through my workshops, global outreach, and involvement in the arts.
Michael Kenna
Additional information to come.
Eric Klemm
Additional information to come.
Amanda Koster
AIDS is Knocking
Color c print
24" x 24" 2004
Value: $500
Nancy LeVine
Additional information to come.
Richard Lewis
I buried the crow with forsythia flowers...
Archival Inkjet
4 1/2” x 30" 2006
Value: $500

Richard Lewis has been photographing, printing and exhibiting for 25 years. He continues to search for surprises through imagemaking.
Robert Lyons
Cape Coast, Ghana
Dye coupler print
20" x 24" 1997
Value: $2500
Spike Mafford
Pajaro de Amor
Type - C Color Print
18" x 18" 1998
Value: $1100

2006 Mayor's Arts Award recipient, father of 8-year-old twins, world traveler, full-time artist looking for international representation and patron to sponsor a year abroad.
Mary Ellen Mark
Additional information to come.
Kristian Marson
insomnia
4'“ x 4' (feet) 2006
Value: $600

Kristian Marson's works reside in the collections of Christopher Rauchenberg, Mark Wooley and Paul Dalquist. He has exhibited nationally and currently resides in Seattle, Washington.
Jose Martinez
Clowns Waiting to Perform Silver gelatin
16" x 16" 2006
Value $500

Jose A. Martinez was born in Mexico City in 1950, graduated cum laude with a degree in Industrial Design from La Universidad Iberoamericana. Started his photographic career in 1984; has studied with John Sexton, Brooks Jensen, Dan Burckholder, Yolanda Andrade, Joan Liftin, Charles Harbut and Mary Ellen Mark. Mr. Martinez has had 17 solo exhibitions and 4 collectives. His work is represented by Patricia Conde Galeria, Casa Lamm and Galeria Quetzalli.
John Martinotti
Additional information to come.
Marianne McCoy
Gargoyles at Notre Dame
"Mon Paris"

Lith Print
8” x 8" (19 1/2” x 16 1/2" framed) 2000
Value: $600

Marianne McCoy is famous nationally and internationally for her fine art photography. Marianne is known for her unique, elegant and classic style. Her work has been published nationally and in France. She is currently working on a retrospective gallery show in Paris and a book to coincide with it.
Annie Marie Musselman
Rescued Snowy Owl 2006
Sarvey Wildlife Project

c-print
20” x 24" 2006
Value: $950

Rosanne Olson
Sno Cone
1 of 25

digital print of Holga
10 1/2” x 10 1/2" (16” x 16" framed) 2001
Value: $550

Rosanne Olson is a fine art and commercial photographer. She is represented by Benham as well as Rolin Rice Gallery in New York, Watermark in Houston & Iris Gallery in Massachusetts. She teaches at PCNW and the Santa Fe Workshops.
Rachel Papo
Serial No. 3817131 #36
1 of 9

C-print
20” x 24" 2005
Value: $1800

Rachel Papo was born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Israel. She served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She began photographing Israeli female soldiers in 2004 for her masters thesis project. Ms. Papo now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Barb Penoyar
Additional information to come.
Caroline Planque
Les Quinquonces

silver gelatin
11” x 14" 1993
Value: $250

A native of France, Caroline Planque graduated with a Master of Arts in Photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2000, she was one of a hundred photographers selected to attend the Eddie Adams workshop. In 2005, she was awarded a print sponsorship at PCNW. Her photographs have been exhibited in Seattle, Austin, Vancouver BC, Paris and Lyon (France).
Christopher Rauschenberg
Ayuthaya, 2005
Thailand

Inkjet. Epson Archival Inks on Epson Premium Gloss Photo Paper
18” x 12" 2005
Value: $500

Christopher Rauschenberg is a photographer who has had 77 solo shows in six countries. He is a co-founder of Photolucida and of Blue Sky Gallery, where he has co-curated over 600 solo exhibitions. He is a member and co-founder of the Nine Gallery and founder of the Portland Grid Project.
Beb Reynol
The Afghan Man
Silver gealtin print
16" x 20" 2000
Value: $400
Patricia Ridenour
The World
The Yoga Tarot

archival digital print
13” x 19" 2006
Value: $400

Patricia Ridenour is an award-winning, internationally published fine art and commercial photographer. She is on the faculty at the Photographic Center Northwest. Recent awards include a first place award and honorable mention in the International Photography Awards.
David Samuel Robbins
Scarecrow with Tibetan Monk's Hat and Large Bee. Ladakh, Indian Himalaya
edition of 30, only 3 printed

C-print
30” x 39" framed 1994
Value: $3000

Mr. Robbins' work is held in the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, the Seattle Art Museum, the Joseph Munson Collection at the Henry Art Gallery, the Microsoft Art Collection, and others. He is currently working as an expeditions leader for National Geographic.
Lisa M. Robinson
Harmony
SNOWBOUND (5/15)

c-print
20” x 24" 2005
Value: $1500

Lisa M. Robinson graduated with a BA in English from Columbia University and received her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her series SNOWBOUND has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Awards include a recent residency at LIGHT WORK, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship.
Ken Rosenthal
Additional information to come.
Patricia Sandler
Family Outcomes; Leslie
"Family Outcomes" 3/20

archival ultrachrome print
14” x 18" 2003
Value: $600

When I was three years old, my uncle drew squiggles on paper that he would then turn into some creature or other. I think that's when I became an artist. I studied photography with Robert Heinecken in the 70's, and with many others since. Photography gives me a voice that I cannot seem to do without.
Steven Scardina
Along the Danube. Budapest, Hungary
5 of 30

Silver Gelatin Print
18” x 18" 2000
Value: $600

Laurel Schultz
The Others
Platinum/palladium.
16” x 20" 2006
Value: $500

Laurel Schultz learned her craft at PCNW. She is currently interested in our ability to empathize with other creatures, and the real limits in our ability to do so.
Erin L. Shafkind
His Suit is Big
"Friends of Little Roy"

gelatin silver print
11” x 14" print, 10” x 10" image 2005
Value: $150

Kerry Skarbakka
Reflected
The Struggle to Right Oneself

C print
20" x 24"(matted 14"“ x 14") 2005
Value: $1250

Kerry Skarbakka received his BA in studio art from the University of Washignton in 1994. In 2003, he earned his MFA in Photogrpahy from Columbia College, Chicago. His solo exhibitions have included exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, and a current show at the Lawrimore Project, Seattle.
Charlotte B. Smith
Additional information to come.
Dorothy M. Smith
Additional information to come.
Kathy Smith
Stone Buildings
England

Silver Gelatin
image 6 3/4” x 6 3/4" (matted 14"“ x 14") 2005
Value: $250

Kathy Smith is a self-taught photographer. She prefers using a Diana Toy camera for its simplicity and the soft images it produces. She has recently published her first book, "In Plain View - Seattle," a study of the city through a plastic lens. Her first show will be at Wall Space Gallery in Seattle, Nov 7 - Dec 9.
Michael Stadler
Within
"Landscapes from Within"

Ultrachrome print of original
15” x 23" (22” x 30" framed) 2003
Value: $375

Michael lives and works on Whidbey Island. As a PCNW grad he left with the knowledge to run a photo studio and gallery for the last 5 years.
John Stamets
Music Hall Demolition
Silver gelatin
16” x 20" 1992
Value: $500

John Stamets has been a Lecturer in Photography in the Architecture Department at the University of Washington since 1992. Before joining their faculty, Stamets worked as a professional photographer, writer and editor. He received his B.A. in 1971 from Yale College where he studied with the leading documentary photographer Walker Evans. Stamets started his own photographic career in 1976 as a photographer for the weekly Seattle Sun newspaper, where he later became the paper's managing editor. His art/photography projects have been of a documentary nature, beginning with "Taxi Passengers" in 1979. His first book presented Seattle's Pike Place Market, Portrait of a Market (Real Comet Press, 1987). In the Seattle area his work has been exhibited at Wing Luke Museum, the Center for Contemporary Art (CoCA), the Museum of History and Industry, and Photographic Center Northwest. In 1988 Stamets started a photographic project documenting building construction sited in downtown Seattle, and he continues that project today.
Marcela Taboada
Soledad
Women of Clay

Silver/Gelatin
16” x 20" 1998
Value: $1200

She has participated in shows in museums and galleries around México, the United States and Europe. She is a member of the board of consultants of the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center in Oaxaca. Awards: 1999, Photojournalist Bienale of México. 2002, Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden. 2005, National Geographic All Roads Photographers, USA. 2005, The Women Image Creators, Yugoslavia.
Seth Thompson
Souvenir of Youth, Pinar del Rio
2006 editioned 3/30

Chromogenic dye coupler print
16” x 20" 1998
Value: $825

PCNW faculty, most recent show: Interiorismo Popular at Nelson Hancock Gallery, New York. Has worked on a series of interiors of private homes and churches in México and Cuba since 1994.
Peggy Washburn
The Reflection
Silver gelatin print
28" x 28" 2003
Value: $1350

Peggy Washburn's work has been acquired by major collections including the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, The Ralph Lauren Collection, and the Museo de Fotograpfia, Brescia, Italy. She has been published widely, shown internationally, and is represented locally by Benham Gallery in Seattle, and Beacon Firehouse Gallery in New York.
Hiroshi Watanabe
Bora Bora, Tahiti
Veiled Observations & Reflections

toned gelatin silver print
14” x 14" 1997
Value: $800

Hiroshi Watanabe graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University in 1975. He then moved to Los Angeles and became involved in the production of Japanese TV commercials. He later established his own production company. In 1995 his passion for photogrpahy rekindled, and since then he has traveled worldwide, photographing what he finds intriguing at that moment and place. In 2000 he closed the production company in order to devote himself to the art.
Gina White
Dresses
Paris

Lith Print
image size 10” x 10" 2003
Value: $350

A photographer for over 15 years, Gina White has worked as an entertainment photographer, instructor, and fine art photographer. Currently her work is on exhibit at New Dimensions Gallery in Bellevue, Washington and XO Bistro, Seattle, Washington.
Linda Wilson
Chantilly, France
French Gardens

Lith Print
14 3/4” x 14 3/4" (27 1/2” x 25" framed) 2003
Value: $350

Linda is in the certificate program at the Photographic Center Northwest. Her work focuses primarily on garden landscapes and architecture with classical elements. She is currently working on a new project of Hawaiian botanical gardens as well as an ongoing body of work of vintage Seattle business signs.
Marc Yankus
Upper West Side
Chromogenic print
20” x 20" 2005
Value: $1000

Jeongmee Yoon
Pink Project - Yehyun and her pink things
Pink Project. Edition: 1/10

Chromogenic print
20” x 20" 2005
Value: $1000

Jeongmee Yoon was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1969, and works in New York. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, NY. She participated in the Ssamzie Studio Program, Korea, ISCP, New York. She has received the Aaron Siskind Scholarship, Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, and received honorable mention at the Santa Fe Center for Photography. She held three solo exhibitions and several selected group exhibitions in South Korea and the USA. Her work is included in the Johnson & Johnson Collection and Ssamzie Art Space.
Mateo Zapata Zachai
Cathartic
Fragments

C-print
15” x 15" image, 22 1/2” x 23" outer 1995
Value: $850

Yale University School of Art, 1999 M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, 1997 B.F.A. Shows at: Bellevue Arts Center, Manten Zambito Gallery, and more recently at show titled "Evidence: at the (CoCA) Center of Contemporary Art.