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Past Exhibitions & EventsAll images linked to this page are copyright protected by the photographer. December 4, 2009 - January 15, 2010 PCNW Members' Exhibition Featuring: Aaron Pultz, Andrea Bakacs, Desiree Edkins, Gary Grenell, Jarvi Kononen, Jeff Leisawitz, Kristin Imig, Larry Larsen, Laura Newlon, Margot Quan Knight, Minh Carrico, Scott Kuehner, Teri Fullerton, Todd Jannausch, Wendy Given, William RugenJuror: Eric Fredericksen, Director, Western Bridge, Seattle In the main gallery, Eric Fredericksen, Director of Western Bridge and former editor/writer for The Stranger, selected compelling work from PCNW's members representing various genres & photographic media. 107 entries were submitted to this year's competition. Juror's Statement Selecting pictures for this show posed a personal challenge. I work with many artists who use photography in their practice, but few who call themselves photographers. This has prepared me to consider critical issues concerning photographic practices, but less so to consider photography as a self-contained medium. The difference is that between critical engagement with the medium of photography and uses in which practitioners operate unselfconsciously, interested in producing interesting images of the world around us. To the extent that work along critical lines was submitted, it often suffered from too-close formal links to well-known work, rather than extending the earlier projects' lines of inquiry. I thus tried to judge the work submitted on its own terms, finding good, well-made pictures. I looked for interesting subjects, provocative or elegant compositions, and formal interest. I was unable to judge based on technical skill. Certain categories of work recurred with uncomfortable frequency: industrial ruin, abstracted nature, work using windows or mirrors to fragment perspective or achieve collage-like effects. I selected work within these categories that I found most surprising or skillful in its use of familiar approaches and motifs. But this created an overwhelming sense that photography has created its own world, one in which certain kinds of views are endlessly valued and sought out, creating a highly selective composite picture of the world. Novelty, too, is overvalued, but I am convinced that it is possible to find new subjects, new ways of presenting subjects, and new approaches to the practice of photography, and I encourage artists to push toward these goals. Thank you to Ann Pallesen and Photographic Center Northwest for the invitation to serve as juror. Awards Honorable Mention Artists' Reception & Awards: Friday, December 11, 6-9 PM Join us for our Holiday Event December 11th & 12th including Holiday Portrait Sessions, Affordable Art Sale & PCNW Book Launch, Volume III, Work by PCNW Students, Alumni & Faculty Get your holiday portraits done at the Photo Center! PCNW teams will create one-of-a-kind sets in our studios for you and your loved ones. Go home with a CD of images to create your holiday gifts. $100 for members, $125 for non-members, $250 for Gold Contributors. Call 206-720-7222 ext 10 for more information & to reserve a holiday portrait session.
October 8 - November 5, 2009 The Curve: Center's Award Recipients Featuring: Cori Chandler-Pepelnjak, Besty Schneider, Anna Boyiazis, Tom Leininger, Wendy Paton, Grace Weston, Damion Berger, Lydia Panas, Heather McClintock, Elizabeth FlemingReception: October 8, 5-8 pm Informal Artist's Talk with Cori Chandler-Pepelnjak: Oct 8, 5:30 pm This exhibition showcases Center's 14th Annual Project Competition Award Winner, and the Singular Image Award Winners in three categories. The Project Competition honors committed photographers working on long-term documentary projects and fine-art series. The Singular Image recognizes outstanding individual photographs. Center, formerly known as the Santa Fe Center for Photography, was founded in 1994. Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that supports, promotes, and provides opportunity for gifted and committed photographers. www.visitcenter.org Project Competition Jury Panel 2009: Alice Gabriner, Senior Picture Editor, Time magazine; Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography; and Maarten Schilt, Publisher, Mets & Shilt publishers, Gallerist, LUX Photo Gallery, Amsterdam
Center's Project Competition First Prize: Cori Chandler-Pepelnjak
Cori Chandler-Pepelnjak is the First Prize Recipient of Center's renowned Project Competition. Her series entitled "JoJo" is part of an ongoing documentary project - that exposes, without fully illuminating, the unconventional and licentious world of a teenage girl. Cori Chandler-Pepelnjak reveals, "The first time I photographed her I knew nothing of her. She was sitting on the stairs of Union Square with an impenetrable yet vague stare as her friends buzzed around. Her posture, indecipherable age, and idiosyncratic mannerisms mixed with streetlight vapors and the hue of the Indian summer night sky, created a mystique - in a glance I was intrigued. This is JoJo. She is fourteen. I concocted a story in my mind about JoJo, about where she lived, her relationship with her parents, and her daily routine. Although underlying elements of JoJo's life surface in some of first images I captured, I would have never imagined a life with such mad colors and theatrical volatility. The work induces curiosity, confuses and entices. I intentionally do not divulge the details of her life; I want the viewer to experience the allure of JoJo and to wrestle with her discord. Her biography is compelling, but what interests me is her relationship to this unique environment and the people who occupy it. JoJo floats, gazes, and inattentively navigates her world. JoJo has allowed me to freely photograph her. This incredible and often heartrending experience has challenged me and enriched my life. All of the images are taken "in the moment"; they are not posed or contrived. It is my intent to continue documenting JoJo through teenage years, showing the arc of her development into adulthood." www.pepelnjak.com Singular Image Curator's ChoiceJuror: Corey Keller, Assistant Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1st Prize : Besty Schneider Tempe, AZ
Betsy Schneider is a photo-based artist and educator. Her artistic concerns range from trying to understand time, decay and the body, to exploring childhood, culture, and relationships. She uses a variety of photographic tools including point and shoot, digital, medium format and view cameras and video. Her work manifests itself through exhibitions of rectangles on the wall, video installations and books. In March of 2004 she was the subject of a brief but intense media storm in Britain when her daily pictures of her young daughter unclothed were censored at the Spitz Gallery in London. Her work is in several private and public collections including that of actor Jamie Lee Curtis, Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. She has taught and lectured across the United States, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom and is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University. www.betsyschneider.net
2nd Prize: Anna Boyiazis
From the documentary project AIDS Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa, Los Angeles, CA. www.annaboyiazis.com
3rd Prize: Tom Leininger, Denton, TX www.tomleininger.net Singular Image Editor's ChoiceJuror: Simon Barnett, Director of Photography, Newsweek magazine, New York, NY
1st Prize: Wendy Paton, Lambertville, NJ
Wendy Paton's keen interest in photography began in 1981; while in the throws of a successful ground breaking career training and driving Standard bred racehorses in New York. Formal photographic training at The International Center for Photography in New York, along with her manual film cameras give her the tools to document and share her artistic vision of the details of everyday life. Currently she is concentrating on an ongoing series of black and white candid night images, VISAGES DE NUIT (Faces of Night). Images from this series have recently been shown in gallery and museum settings nationally. All of her work is film based, hand printed, selenium toned, gelatin silver prints. www.wendypaton.com
2nd Prize: Grace Weston, Portland, OR www.graceweston.com
3rd Prize: Damion Berger. New York, NY www.damionberger.com Singular Image Publisher's ChoiceJuror: Michael Mack, Publisher, SteidlMack, London, England
1st Prize: Lydia Panas, Kutztown, PA
Lydia Panas has exhibited widely throughout the United States and is gaining attention in Europe and Asia. She has won numerous awards including First Prize for the Publisher's Choice Singular Image at CENTER, Santa Fe in 2009. Lydia was a finalist in the Photolucida Book Competition in 2008, and one of nine artists selected by Fotofest curators for the International Discoveries Exhibit in 2007 among others. Her work is included in numerous collections including MoMA Shanghai, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Allentown Art Museum, Lehigh University. Lydia is represented by WallSpace Gallery in Seattle, WA.
2nd Prize: Heather McClintock, Boone, NC www.heathermcclintock.com
September 11 - October 5, 2009 Counter-Photography, Japan's Artists Today Featuring: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Eikoh Hosoe, Miho Akioka, Miyuki Ichikawa, Akiko Sugiyama, Chie Yasuda, Kazuo Katase, Hiroko Inoue, Tomoko Yoneda, Tomoaki Ishihara and Michihiro Shimabuku. Reception: Friday, September 11, 6-8 pm Organized by the Japan Foundation*, this internationally touring exhibition introduces an exciting selection of photography by eleven contemporary Japanese artists: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Eikoh Hosoe, Miho Akioka, Miyuki Ichikawa, Akiko Sugiyama, Chie Yasuda, Kazuo Katase, Hiroko Inoue, Tomoko Yoneda, Tomoaki Ishihara and Michihiro Shimabuku. The common theme that links these works together is the photographers desire to capture a world invisible to the human eye - the world of the "spirit". Such an attitude reflects the traditional Japanese approach to life, in which all objects are perceived to have a spiritual aspect. Reacting to a society defined by constantly shifting values, demographics, and technologies, the exhibiting artists employ varied approaches to photographic expression and representation. Some delve beyond external appearance to expose an essential truth, while others attempt to reinterpret and reconfigure issues of identity, self, and community in a world seemingly devoid of a spiritual foundation. Due to its ability to copy or replicate reality, photography has long been attributed with a certain "truth value." Consequently, photographs are often cited as documentation or irrefutable evidence of something's existence in the material world. Counter Photography, as its name implies, challenges many of these popular beliefs, utilizing the inherently visual medium of photography to explore that which cannot be seen. The exhibition consists of two sections. The first is entitled "To Distill: Another Appearance," and the second is entitled "To Reverse: Another Relationship." Based on the idea, "to reveal the reality behind the visible," the two sections show different approaches and themes. Artists include Tomoko Yoneda who takes photographs of the interiors of houses after the residents have moved out, concentrating on the marks made on the wallpaper by the everyday acts of living, the removal of paintings, the heat of gas fires and the pencil scratches of children. Work by Eikoh Hosoe, one of the first generation of post-war Japanese photographers, shows the human body reduced almost to the point of line drawings, at angles that sometimes turn the photographs into abstraction. Tomoaki Ishihara's self-portraits are taken in art galleries, contrasting his unfocused face in close up with traditional Western and Japanese paintings of people. The architecture seen in Hiroshi Sugimoto's work is originally masculine monuments that possessed concrete forms. The solid buildings had taken shape through the creativity of builders and architects with the aim of showing the power and wealth that maintain civilization. However, Sugimoto excludes the solid materiality form the well-known buildings, and shows an aggregate of shadows, which is similar to seeing a fleeting nightmare. Through the lens of his camera, Sugimoto's nihilistic view succeeds in infusing poison into the glorious products of modernism, and in abstracting their illusory appearances and reversing their values. The exhibition is co-sponsored by Photographic Center Northwest; The Japan Foundation; and The Consulate-General of Japan, Seattle. * The Japan Foundation was established in 1972 as a special legal entity supervised by the Foreign Ministry to undertake international cultural exchange and was subsequently reorganized as an independent administrative institution in October 2003. The Japan Foundation consists of a head office in Tokyo, a branch office in Kyoto, two Japanese-language institutes (Urawa and Kansai), and 22 overseas offices in 20 countries.
August 2 - September 4, 2009 Upper Level Showcase: Slow Healing Featuring: Andrew HidaEight years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced a new population of traumatically brain-injured soldiers returning to civilian life, and in many cases to the front lines of combat. Dubbed, "the Signature Wound," of the Global War on Terror, it is estimated that 20% of the wounded have sustained a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI has the ability to shift personalities, transform emotions, and result in permanent physical handicaps that erode the very characteristics defining a person. Changes are delayed. Adjustment is slow. And acceptance is uninvited. Slow Healing is a multimedia documentary tracing the aftermath experience of four soldiers' long and tragic journey back home. Propelled into a reality deprived of their previous life, the road to recovery and healing is long, and often remains forever elusive. www.slowhealing.org Andrew Hida is a multimedia documentary photographer who utilizes photography and new media to create positive social change. His work intends to provide a voice to the forgotten and buried communities, cultures and landscapes whose sole survival depends on the ability to remain visible to the global eye. As a former student of PCNW, his work has been exhibited throughout Washington State and supported in part by awards from the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, and 4Culture.
July 13 - September 4, 2009 Photo-Op, 14th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition Featuring: Jowhara Alsaud, Andrea Bakacs, Mary Ellen Bartley, Katie Baum, Magda Biernat, Colin Blakely, Tim Carpenter, Onejoon Che, Thomas Holton, Stephanie Kirk, Brian Knappenberger, Alex Leme, James Luckett, Kevin Miyazaki, Liz Obert, Colleen Plumb, Shawn Records, Tom Reese, Andy Reynolds, Rebecca Sittler, Lacey Terrell, Ian Whitmore, Ian J. WhitmoreJuly 17 Lecture: Jen Bekman, Curating & Collecting Contemporary Photography,
7 PM July 17 Photo-Op Artists' Reception & Awards: 8:30-10 pm at PCNW This international annual juried exhibition 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. Choosing from over 2500 images, the exhibition is full of surprises - fresh & exciting work! Juror Bio: Jen Bekman owns a gallery in NY, writes a blog called Personism and is the founder of the international photo competition, Hey, Hot Shot! Her latest endeavor is 20x200, a place to buy editioned prints and photos at ridiculously affordable prices. Jen Bekman Projects, the gallery, its exhibitions and Jen herself have been featured in dozens of publications including The New York Times, Harper's, Art in America, Foam, Businessweek, Dwell, Der Spiegel and Le Monde. She was named an Innovator of the Year by American Photo in 2006 and was recently honored with the Rising Star Award at Griffin Museum of Photography's annual Focus Awards. Photo-Op Awards
1st Place Award - James Luckett, OH
2nd Place Award - Magda Biernat, NY
3rd Place Award - Ian Whitmore, IL
Honorable Mentions:
For Award Sponsorship, PCNW gratefully acknowledges Blurb ($1000 & $75 Scrip Certificates for each winner), Glazer's Camera ($500) and Panda Lab ($250)
June 1 - July 10, 2009 PCNW Thesis Exhibition Featuring: Jennifer Brendicke, Ron Espina, Daniel Gregory, Cheryl Hanna-Truscott, Lacey Kwak-Simon, David Regal, Chris WilliamsPCNW Thesis Graduation & Reception: Friday, June 12, 6-8 pm PCNW presents its Annual Thesis Exhibition showcasing 7 students who have completed an intensive study in the certificate program. Each photographer has a vision and project that is uniquely their own, but together they share a passion for photography that led them through the program as they honed their skills and perfected their visual language.
The series Bellitude embodies Jennifer Brendicke's exploration of a personal realm where the boundaries of ideals and reality blur, and the possibilities of a new self are unveiled. Through the creation of this work, she embraces the challenge of navigating the nuances of her idealistic versus rational nature. In each image, black, white, and color converge -- obscuring, unearthing, and strengthening one another. Their convergence mirrors the artist's inner realm where established boundaries are no longer defined. Working with the subtle shifts of light that accentuate abstract form, she seeks to render images that push photography beyond the usual modes of representation. The resulting series is her visual tribute to a new perspective of self.
In Hare Krishna, "The Energy of God", Ron Espina explores and delivers a conscious view of God Hare Krishna, captured in very magical moments of life.
In Immersion: Experienced Spaces, Daniel J Gregory moves beyond the role of observer as he explores the experiences of being immersed within landscapes. Utilizing an 8x10 large format camera, Daniel evokes more than just visual observation. He finds each landscape generates its own unique experience of atmosphere, sensation, and presence that enhances our connection to these spaces. In these individually hand-coated platinum and palladium images, Daniel continues to further extend his immersion experience directly into the final printed image.
Protective Custody: Within a Prison Nursery by Cheryl Hanna-Truscott is a portrait series about pregnant inmates incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center for Women who qualify for a prison nursery program. After giving birth, the mothers maintain custody of their babies while serving relatively short prison sentences. Healthy maternal-infant attachment is promoted during this critical time in a protective, supportive, and safe environment.
Lacey Kwak-Simon's photographs document a disappearing way of life. She returns to her childhood home in search of both her own memories and those her children will never have. Inheritance explores her love and loss of the farm.
In Listening to Walls, David Regal reminds us that as we move through our everyday world we are surrounded by intriguing and aesthetically rewarding imagery - if only we take the time to notice it.
In All of Us Are Growing Up, Chris Williams shares intimate portraits of close friends and acquaintances as they transition from post-adolescence into early maturity. His portraits reflect and redefine shifts in personal awareness as his generation seeks to form unique identities and find meaning in their lives. These large c-prints capture the essence of these individuals with the (intended) desire to "freeze us all now, to remember, to hold white-knuckle tight onto this moment."
May 1 - May 29, 2009 Andy Freeberg, Guardians & Sentry: Sitting in the Art World Featuring: Andy FreebergReception & Informal Artist Talk: Friday, May 1st, 6-8 pm Andy Freeberg photographs women Guardians in the art museums of Russia, as they sit and guard the collections. When looking at the paintings and sculptures, the presence of the women becomes an inherent part of viewing the artwork itself. In a second series, Sentry, Freeberg photographs the Chelsea Galleries white bunkerlike front desks that display the top of the heads of the desk sitters - often the only other human presence. In a deadpan approach, he targets the uniformity, anonymity, and their chilling effect.
In Guardians, Freeberg reveals; "I found the guards as intriguing to observe as the pieces they watch over. In conversation they told me how much they like being among Russia's great art. A woman in Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery Museum said she often returns there on her day off to sit in front of a painting that reminds her of her childhood home. Another guard travels three hours each way to work, since at home she would just sit on her porch and complain about her illnesses "as old women do." She would rather be at the museum enjoying the people watching, surrounded by the history of her country."
In discussing Sentry Freeberg explains, "It was an odd moment when I walked into that first gallery in Chelsea and saw a large white desk with a head poking up from the top edge of the computer screen. I took out my camera, carefully framing and exposing the scene, and the head never moved or took notice of my gaze. As I walked around that booming Chelsea neighborhood of art galleries, I began to notice a trend: at some of the biggest galleries there are giant entry desks, where only head tops are visible. This leads me to wonder, in this digital world of email and instant messaging that supposedly makes us more connected, are we also setting up barriers to the simple eye to eye contact that affirms our humanity?"
Press on the Sentry project: On September 6, 2007 The New York Times ran this article. An interview on Zoum Zoum, the French photo blog, can be seen here, in French and English. Andy Freeberg was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. He began working professionally as a photojournalist in New York with assignments for Rolling Stone, Time, The Village Voice and Fortune, specializing in environmental portraits. His project, Sentry, was presented in a one man show at the Danziger Projects Gallery in New York City in September, 2007 and received critical acclaim in the New York Times, The New Yorker and many other publications. Freeberg’s work was recently acquired by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. Guardians, of Russian Art Museums, was selected for the book prize at Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass 2008 and it will be published in 2010. Guardians was also selected as a winner at the Hearst 8x10 Biennial. Freeberg now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. March 30 - April 27, 2009 Christina Seely, Lux Featuring: Courtesy NASA, Christina SeelyInformal Artist Talk & Reception: Thursday, April 2nd, 5-8 p.m.
For millions of years only dramatic shifts in terrain informed the reading of the earth's surface from space. Now the cumulative light from highly urbanized areas creates a new type of information and understanding of the world that reflects human's dominance over the planet. Christina Seely’s series Lux, titled after the system unit for measuring illumination, presents photographic portraits of the cities within the most brightly illuminated regions on the NASA map of the night earth: the United States, Western Europe and Japan. This project is inspired by the disconnect between the immense beauty produced by man-made light and the complexity of what this light represents. These economically and politically powerful regions not only have the greatest impact on the night sky but this brightness reflects a dominant cumulative impact on the planet. Collectively they emit approximately 45% of the world's CO2 and (along with China) act as the top consumers of electricity, energy and resources. Public dialogue about global warming and energy consumption has increased exponentially since the inception of Lux. For most of human history, man-made light has signified hope and progress within local and global arenas. In this project, light also paradoxically denotes regression or transgression -- an index of the complex negative human impacts on the health and future of the planet. In order to suggest the interchangeability of urbanization and the unilateral impact of these cities on the global environment each photographed location in the series, is indicated by the central latitude and longitude of the depicted city and is simply titled Metropolis. Christina Seely is a photographer and professor based in San Francisco, CA. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as; The West Collection, The Walker Art Center, Yale University, Fidelity Investments, The Boston Public Library, Wellington Management Company, and The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Born (1976) and raised in Berkeley CA, she received a BA from Carleton College (1998) and an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design (2003). Christina is also a principal member of, Civil Twilight, a design collective who won Metropolis Magazine's, 2007 Next Generation Design Competition with a proposal for Lunar Resonant Streetlights (streetlights that dim and brighten in correlation with the moon phases). Interview with Christina Seely and Josh Berger at Plazm magazine March 2 - March 27, 2009 Identity, Costume, Cliché: Korean Photography Today Featuring: Suk Kuhn Oh, Chan-Hyo Bae, Ok Hyun AhnIdentity, Costume, Cliché: Korean Photography Today is an exhibition by 3 talented contemporary Korean artists who share their insights to universal questions and feelings surrounding cultural identity. Together they reveal their personal experiences and opinions through projects focused on feelings of confusion, shame and embarrassment, cultural estrangement and cliché views of women.
Press about the show
In The Text Book series Suk Kuhn Oh uses the characters of Chul-soo and Young-hee, the central characters in Korean children's books that are similar to that of Jack and Jill. The subjects wear large masks that cover hidden emotions and explore situations that represent bizarre personal memories that many share from adolescence. In the original children's book "The Text Book" the activities are seemingly normal - the children play with their parents and pets, or in school. In Suk Kuhn Oh's work he describes his act of staging as a confessional. He believes that art always has to concern people about themselves. The face, identity and representation are his main focus. He finds hidden meaning in the unconsciousness. Viewers can perceive the figure's discomfort and distress and can remember parallel moments in their own lives of hurt, embarrassment, shame. Suk Kuhn Oh was born in Inchon, South Korea. After serving as a photographer in the Korean army, he received a degree in photography from the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University in Britain. His work has been exhibited in Nottingham, Seoul, and the Pingyao International Photography Festival, and Fotofest in Houston.
In the series, Existing in Costume, Chan-Hyo Bae has chosen the iconography of queenliness to express his feelings as an Asian immigrant. He dresses in period costumes and photographs himself as unidentified members of English aristocracy from the 13th to 19th centuries (all the works are untitled). His self-portraits mimic women monarchs only and are an examination of gender, power, race, and class. Living and working in London since 2004, Bae's large format color prints reflect feelings of cultural estrangement and reveal a fantasized character that would be accepted and honored. Chan-Hyo Bae was born in Busan, South Korea and graduated with an MFA from Slade School of Fine Art in UCL (2007), London, England, and a BA in Photography from the Kyung-Sung University (2003), South Korea. Bae's work has been shown in several international exhibitions and fairs including the London Photographic Association Awards for Portraiture, International Discoveries, FotoFest, Houston, Texas, The Alchemy of Shadow, Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival in China and The Progressive Canvas, Gallery Wa in Korea. He was in Shots Young Photographers, Shots Magazine, UK (2006), and won first prize in Art Images as Research, University College of London (2005). His work has been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
What if a hundred clichés burst out shamelessly and simultaneously? Would we yawn or laugh at such an outpouring of banality?
In the series Mirror Ball, Ok Hyun Ahn explores the idea of cliché poses of women. Contrary to how Korean women view themselves, OK Hyun asks her subjects to pose in clichéd ways that are not the norm for the women of her culture. She encourages them to strike a pose in the ways in which women have been represented in the media, the history of art and our unconscious. Ok Hyun Ahn explains "In Korea, women never strike this pose in order to be sexually appealing in their everyday lives. Even though these kinds of images are extremely familiar to most Koreans, viewers find themselves embarrassed when viewing her photographs; the clichéd images inappropriately intrude into their daily lives, and cause confusion". Ok Hyun Ahn exposes and disturbs the cliché at the same time that she participates in its lure. Ok Hyun Ahn lives and works in Chicago and Seoul. She received a MFA in 2003 from School of Visual Arts, NY and a MFA in 1998 in Photography & Design from Hong-IK University, Seoul, Korea. Her work has been in group and solo exhibitions in Seoul, Korea, NY, NY, Chicago, IL and Tempe, AZ. In 2000, she received 2nd Sajin Bipyong (Photography Criticism) Award Prize, Seoul. She had a Residency in 2007 at Ssamzie Studio Program, Seoul.
January 16 - February 27, 2009 Work, Idling & Pod People Featuring: Eric Percher, Peter SnyderReception & Informal Artist Talk: Friday January 16, 6-8 pm Press about the Show
The Work series is a semi-autobiographical response to Eric Perchers' seven-year experience in the financial offices and cubicles of Midtown, Manhattan. Percher penetrated the buildings of mid-town to examine the impact of organizational and architectural structures on those that labor inside. The series considers the limitations people accept in order to obtain success: the constraints erected by the desires and fears that drive workers' initial ambitions; the stricture of further aspirations that becomes necessary to maintain the success workers achieve; and the restrictions inherent to a life in an office-cube, within a numbered building, on a gridded city. The series reveals moments of limitation, as demonstrated by subjects who are themselves the hard labor and emerging leaders of New York's most profitable enterprises. The project does not intend to repudiate individual pursuits of success but to illuminate the tensions and sacrifices required to achieve such success. Consequently, the viewer is asked to consider the same question as the subject: is there sustenance in the viewers' hard work and satisfaction in its completion, or is this simply an economic transaction, dollars in exchange for hours, security swapped for autonomy? Or as the subjects might put it, does the return justify the investment?
In 2008, Percher was named one of the top thirteen emerging artists in the world of photography by American Photo magazine. Percher was included in the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward 2008 emerging photographer competition publication in 2008 and also received an honorable mention in the Singular Image category from CENTER, Santa Fe. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Percher lives and works New York City.
Peter Snyder photographs commuters as they are stuck in end-of-day traffic while they sit at red lights waiting to inch ahead. It is in these idle semi-private moments that this slow march of strangers comes to seem most human. Many relax enough to just sit and be for a little while. They stare, eat, read and even pick their noses. Their waiting is also a metaphor for how humans are forced to adapt to less than ideal circumstances that many times are out of their control. It is often how people chose to adapt that can make all the difference.
In a second series, Snyder photographs people walking through the same intersection everyday while listening to their MP3 players in a neighborhood of New York City. These portraits stir curiosity about how they interact with their world while tuned in or perhaps tuned out. iPods and specifically iTunes have changed how society experiences music and in some ways everyones' lives. Synder poses the question: What does having an omnipresent personal soundtrack do to how people experience their lives and what are the inherent trade-offs?
Peter Synder is a trans-disciplinary artist who uses photography to focus on the study of how society experiences and adapts to the daily environment. His work has received praise from Photolucida's Critical Mass and Review Santa Fe jurors. His work has appeared on prominent photography blogs including Amy Stein, Flak Photo and Jörg Colberg's: Conscientious. Recently, Peter appeared on the CBS Early Show and was also featured in the New York Post for his year long interactive art project Listening Post. Snyder lives and works in New York City.
Members' Event: Foto Revu, Saturday, February 7 The FOTO REVU is a unique opportunity for members to receive one-on-one professional critiques by some of the Northwest's most respected people in the field of photography including gallery owners, museum curators, publishers, artists & educators. In the last decade photo review events have become the primary venue for fine art photographers to network & show their work to people that can make a difference in their future. Experiencing Foto Revu is an excellent stepping stone to participating in the international review events such as Fotofest, Review LA, Photolucida, PhotoNOLA and Review Santa Fe. Wednesday, February 4th 7 pm Lecture: Beyond the Cliché: Positive Aspects of the Cuban Revolution, Anna Mia Davidson Anna Mia Davidson, Photographer, Seattle, WA Location: PCNW Auditorium, Tickets: $5 general, FREE to PCNW students & members Cuba is the misunderstood island nation that is just ninety miles off the coast of the United States. In 1961, the United States ban on trade and travel to Cuba, followed by a break in diplomatic relations, created a defacto embargo on information about Cuba. Davidson has been a witness to the humble dignity of the people and the beauty of the culture. Her photographic vision is to capture the subtleties of the Cuban spirit, as change is imminent in this volatile time. Davidson's images are both a historical documentation and a testimony to the strength of the Cuban people despite the United States Embargo against them. Anna Mia Davidson is a Blue Earth Alliance sponsored photographer for her documentary project, "Cuba: Beyond The Cliché, Positive Remnants of The Cuban Revolution." She has exhibited her photographs throughout the United States, including the Farmani Gallery (Los Angeles), Leica Gallery (New York), Zoelner Arts Center (Philadelphia), Benham Gallery (Seattle), Miami Dade College (Miami) and internationally at the Fototeca gallery in Cuba. Anna Mia has won a juried award and an honorable mention for images from her Cuba series and was granted an Artist-in-Residency sponsorship at the Photographic Center Northwest to print her most recent photographs from rural Cuba. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Zoelner arts Center. Anna Mia Davidson is based in Seattle, Washington where she works as a freelance photographer for international and national publications and clients. Friday, February 6th 7 pm Lecture: Contemporary Photography Now, or, Today is So Yesterday George Slade, Photography Curator, Historian, Writer, Advisor, Minneapolis, MN Location: PCNW Auditorium, Tickets: $6 regular, $4 Members & Students Given the proliferation of venues for contemporary photographic artists how do viewers and makers navigate the flow of images and assimilate the dialogue surrounding them? This talk, presented in conjunction with the 2009 New Directions juried exhibition at Wallspace Gallery, examines the new wave of photographic practice from the perspective of a curator, consultant, and writer currently caught in that wave, trying to historicize, interpret, and articulate while simultaneously just staying afloat. George Slade is a historian of photography and a native Minnesotan. He became the artistic director and chief curator of the Minnesota Center for Photography in 2003 after serving as a curator, editor, writer, and advisor to the organization since 1992. His position at MCP ended when the organization closed at the end of July of this year. He is currently an adjunct assistant curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts overseeing the installation and presentation of the Museum of Modern Art's major traveling retrospective of Lee Friedlander's photography. December 3 2008 - January 13, 2009 PCNW Members' Juried Exhibition Juror: Scott Lawrimore, Lawrimore Project, Seattle , WA Artists' Reception & Awards, Friday, December 12th, 6-8 pm Scott Lawrimore selected work from PCNW's members displaying unique subject matter and various photographic media.
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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
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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
Exhibitor List
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:
Exhibitor List
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 is looking for work that represents a larger, cohesive body of work and will be selecting a short series from each photographer chosen. From among those exhibited, our juror will select first, second and third prize winners to receive prizes of $1,000, $500, and $250. Juror Charlotte Cotton is Department Head and Curator of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Previously, she was Head of Cultural Programs at Art + Commerce in New York, Head of Programming at The Photographers' Gallery in London and a Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1993 to 2004. She has curated many exhibitions of historical and contemporary photography including, Imperfect Beauty: the making of contemporary fashion photographs (2000), Out of Japan (2002), Stepping In and Out: contemporary documentary photography (2003) and Guy Bourdin (2003). Cotton is the author and editor of publications such as Imperfect Beauty (2000), Then Things Went Quiet (2003), Guy Bourdin (2003) and The Photograph as Contemporary Art (2004), a title in the World of Art series published by Thames & Hudson. Her most recent writing includes essays and interviews with Paul Graham, Rinko Kawauchi, Hannah Starkey, Dav id Hilliard, Inez van Lamsweerde, Desiree Dolron, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Friday: August 3, 7:00 pm Lecture with Charlotte Cotton The Photograph as Contemporary Art Tickets: $8, $5 PCNW & SAM members and students This lecture concerns photographic practice over the past decade and the notion of photography as an accepted and fashionable form of contemporary art. The lecture qualifies the versions of contemporary art photography that have made a lasting impact on the discourses of art as well as highlighting the issues they raise for our perceptions of photographic practice today. ANDREA HORNS, SCOTIA MACKAY, LARRY OCKENE & ELLEN WITEBSKY Reception: Friday, June 8, 6:00–8:00 pm Photographic Center Northwest presents thesis work by four students from the Certificate Program. These graduating thesis students each posses a style that is uniquely their own, but they share a passion for fine art photography that has led them through years of in-depth study as part of PCNW's rigorous Certificate Program. Please join us in recognizing their accomplishment with an exhibition featuring their work in a variety of formats and addressing themes as individual as the artists themselves.
Andrea Horns In My Sensational Skin , Andrea Horns portrays the beauty and diversity of the most amazing of our organs: the skin. Intrigued by the tender wrapping of her own children, and inspired by Kent Stevenson's song, she explored the ever changing appearance of skin — used every day, durable enough to last, but fragile at the same time. The color photographs in this series show grace and beauty at any age.
Scotia MacKay In Boundaries. Scotia MacKay illustrates with images and poetry, the cause and effect of various forms of separation; light and dark, vulnerability and protection, support and deformity, discipline and spaciousness. This exhibit is in the form of an installation and includes the artist's voice—reciting her poems creating an atmosphere that is soothing and mysterious.
Larry Ockene Larry Ockene presents us with a view of the extraordinary within the ordinary, In Peregrine Forms . Through extreme macro photography, plant life becomes highly abstract – evoking landscapes, anatomical structures, and alien worlds: In the interior of a red pepper is an embryo in a womb; in the draped curves of a vine flower is the caldera of a volcano. The artist's large color images invite one to look deeply at the intriguing forms in everyday life.
Ellen Witebsky Home is not just a place. It is a personal space where the objects with which we surround ourselves evoke powerful feelings. In Ellen Witebsky's Poems from Home, these household objects – sometimes worn and dirty, sometimes bright and glittery – become the subjects of elegant still lifes. In these color photographs, she captures the beauty and warmth of everyday things.
A DELICATE BALANCE Past Recipients of the PCNW Print Sponsorship Three artists working in very different idioms explore the awkward place where man and nature meet.
Nealy Blau Viewing dioramas inside Natural History Museums can be a deliriously disorienting, slightly eerie and discordant visual experience. Yet photographing them Nealy Blau often feels or senses a presence in them that parallels her experiences in Nature in fascinating and subversive ways. Like the long tradition of landscape photographers before her, the seed of her desire to photograph dioramas comes from a similar source. Simply awe. Blau is continually astounded and moved by the enchanting illusionary effects and sense of wonder these constructions can impart. She is not alone. Spending hours and days inside museums it is striking to overhear the same conversations between children and adults over and over again. Namely, the children want to know if the display is real. Is this one real? That one? It doesn't matter how many times they are told the contrary, and why shouldn't they remain unconvinced. Where else can we experience such a curious transformation from the biological and factual into the fluid realm of the imagination?
Nealy Blau is represented locally by the G.Gibson Gallery. Her work has been included in several shows in the Northwest Regeion . She received the Photographic Center Northwest Printing Sponsorship, 2004, Cannon Emerging Photographer Award, 2002, University of California Regents Grant , 1991, Corwin Award, First Prize Outstanding Short Film, 1991. She is in the collections of 4Culture, King County , Photographic Center Northwest, Safeco Insurance.
Erika Langley Photography by its very nature captures what is ephemeral: a moment frozen in time. In the case of this project, Erika Langley's subject is actively vanishing, and pictures are the only thing that endure. The town of North Cove . Washington began falling into the ocean in the early 1900's. Four square miles of coastline have disappeared, including a town with its lighthouse, schoolhouse, post office, and Coast Guard station. Nobody knows exactly why. What is certain is that 150 feet of beach disappear every year. “ Washaway Beach ” is recognized as one of the fastest eroding places in our hemisphere, and as that rarity, affordable beach property, Langley could not resist investing herself. Erika loves the ferocity of the beach, its terrible beauty and monuments to the foiled hand of man. She watches her fellow watchers. They attend the high tides with the respect of a wake and the fascination of a train wreck. Langley photographs constantly and the places that she sees vanish. She is a storyteller, stalking the beach into permanence.
Annie Marie Musselman Annie Marie Musselman is a photographer living and working in Seattle , Washington . Five years ago, Musselman started photographing at the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Arlington , Washington . Injured, wild animals throughout the Northwest are brought to Sarvey for any number of reasons, (i.e. two brown bears were found in a truck, crossing the border from Canada to Washington , where they were being tortured and used to smuggle drugs because dogs are afraid to go near them). In the spring, the center experiences a high volume of injured or orphaned animals—most of them would not make it if it weren't for the caring individuals who find them and bring them to Sarvey. Not all the animals brought to the center make it back home. Musselman learned a lot about the meaning of life and its delicate balance at Sarvey. She captures the relationship involving the animals and those that care for them and love them. She explores the spiritual nature these animals embody. Musselman received a 4Culture grant to continue her story for a year that ended with a show at the Seattle Downtown Public Library in 2006. Her Sarvey images were also chosen to appear in the American Photography book 22 Juried by Kathy Ryan. She received the PCNW Printing Sponsorship in 2005.
Marc Yankus Artist's Reception: Friday, April 6, 6-8pm In many of Yankus' photographs, textures scanned from old tintypes, books and other objects are digitally layered on top of the artists's original images. This superimposition of the old and the new, serves as a metaphor for Yankus' wider conceptual interests. Throughout his work, the artist oscillates not only between the old and the new, the past and the present, but also between figuration and landscape. He Establishes a rhythm and play between timeless portraits and beautifully still and quiet landscapes and cityscapes. Hushed, introspective, and at turn even melancholic, this body of work is ultimately a reflection of the artist's personal past and his passage in to the present time. Marc Yankus' fine art and published experience span a period of more than twenty-five years. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Exit Art, New York City; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and recently at ClampArt, New York City. Yankus' artwork has graced the covers of books by Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, and Alan Hollinghurst, among many others.
Rachel Papo
Rachel Papo is an Israeli who was born in 1970 in Columbus , Ohio but was raised in Israel . She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa , Israel . At age eighteen she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. These two intensive years of service inspired her current photographic project titled after her own number during service -- Serial No. 3817131. Revisiting her experiences as a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, Rachel Papo has brought forward a series of photographs that has caught the eye of many with its timelessness, universality and beauty. She reveals the soldier, often caught in a transient moment of self-reflection and uncertainty, as if questioning her own identity. The expected existence of the confident and nationalistic soldier is replaced by moments that disclose a personal, complex and delicate spectrum of emotions. Papo earned a BFA in Fine Arts from Ohio State University in Columbus (1991-96), and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2002-05).Rachel is represented by Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles , where her first solo show was recently on display. www.rachelpapo.com
Jonas Bendiksen Artist's Lecture, book signing & reception Jonas recently received the 2nd prize for in the World Press Photo award in the category Daily Life Stories. In 2003 he received the Infinity Award from The International Centre of Photography (ICP) in New York , as well as a 1st prize in the Pictures Of the Year International (POY) awards. Other distinctions include the 2002 Nikon/Sunday Times Magazine Ian Parry Memorial Award, PDN's "30 under 30", the 2001 World Press Photo Masterclass, and a 2004 fellowship in photography from New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Tom Blau Gallery in London and in the "Moving Walls" exhibition at the Open Society Institute in New York . His magazine clients include National Geographic, GEO, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine and Mother Jones. PCNW Members' Juried Exhibition Juror: Scott Wallin Director of Exhibitions, Whatcom Museum of History & Art, Bellingham , WA Juried Exhibition Awards 1st Place Award Andy Reynolds 2nd Place Award Eva Sköld Westerlind 3rd Place Award Michael Kaufman Honorable Mentions Monika J. Danos Members' Juried Show Exhibitors List Stats: 31 artists & images selected
Chick Flick Julie Blackmon, Jessica Bruah, Kelli Connell & Erica Shires Artists' Reception: Friday Nov. 10, 6-8 pm
El Corazon de Oaxaca Curated by Mary Ellen Mark James Carbone, David Darby, Jose Martinez & Marcela Taboada
These four artists have studied and photographed with Mary Ellen Mark in Oaxaca , Mexico . In El Corazon de Oaxaca unique visions are depicted of the culture and essence of the heart of Oaxaca .
Tiny Over the Years Mary Ellen Mark
Saturday October 7 th , 6:30pm
Tickets: $8 regular, $5 students and members followed by opening reception for El Corazon de Oaxaca & Tiny Over the Years at PCNW. Mary Ellen Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. For more than three decades, she has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Today, she is recognized as one of the most respected and influential photographers. Her images of our world's diverse cultures have become landmarks in the field of documentary and portrait photography. Her portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses and brothels in Bombay were the product of many years of work in India . Recently, Mary Ellen was presented with the Cornell Capa Award by the International Center of Photography. She has published fourteen books. Her most recent project is entitled Twins, a book and exhibition, featuring her 20x24 Polaroid portraits of twins. www.maryellenmark.com .
Rebecca Norris Webb: The Glass between Us Lecture with Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb at PCNW: Friday, September 15 7pm, Tickets $5. Followed by Ms. Webb's book signing & reception
Rebecca Norris Webb was born in Rushville , Indiana and moved to Hot Springs , South Dakota when she was 16. Originally a poet, Rebecca graduated from Columbia University 's Graduate School of Journalism in 1989. The Glass Between Us is a photo exploration of the complex and vulnerable relationship that exists between people and animals in cities. Seven years ago, Rebecca Norris Webb wandered into the Coney Island Aquarium and spotted a white beluga whale soaring high above the heads of visitors, who were reflected in the glass. Since then, Webb has photographed urban animals in New York , Chicago , Havana , Istanbul , New Delhi , Paris , and other cities around the world, often viewing the animals between some sort of transparent barrier. I n a certain light, the glass between us can be a window, a wall, and a mirror. Her Project, The Glass Between Us , was awarded sponsorship by the Blue Earth Alliance and was featured in the Griffin Museum of Photography in 2005. In May 2006, a book of these photographs and writings will be published by Channel Photographics, the same month that Webb will have her first New York City solo exhibition at Ricco Maresca Gallery. Her work will also be included in several other exhibitions in 2006, including “Why Look at Animals?' at the George Eastman House and PCNW. Webb lives in Brooklyn and teaches photography around the world with her husband, Alex Webb. Her website is www.theglassbetweenus.com.
Resonance: The 11th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition Lecture: Paul Kopeikin, Keeping up in the Fine Art Market, Friday, July 14, 6:30 P.M., at SAAM in Volunteer Park . Tickets: $5 Paul Kopeikin will discuss photography and the art market; breaking in and staying in. Resonance Artists' Reception and Awards following the lecture at PCNW. Juror's Awards ($1000, $500, $250) 8pm-10pm Portfolio Reviews with Paul Kopeikin, Friday, July 14 12:00 - 3:30pm and This is your chance to receive a private 30 minute portfolio review with one of the leading fine art photography gallery owners in the US . Kopeikin will give one on one feedback about your work and provide guidance and suggestions for future career development. Portfolios should be of a cohesive body of work (approximately 15-30 images). Call PCNW to register. Resonance Awards 1st Place Award, $1000, Joelle Jensen , NY
2nd Place Award, $500, Lisa M. Robinson, NY 3rd Place Award, $250, Jeongmee Yoon , NY
Honorable Mentions $50 each Tara McDermott, WA
Lydia Panas , PA Saul Robbins, NY Amy Stein, NY
Jo Johnson, Maylee Noah and Loewyn Young: Thesis Exhibition Artists' Reception at PCNW: Friday, June 16, 6-8 P.M. These graduating thesis students each posses a style that is uniquely their own, but they share a passion for fine art photography that has led them through years of in-depth study as part of PCNW's rigorous Certificate Program. Please join us in recognizing their accomplishment with two exhibits featuring their work in a variety of formats and addressing themes as individual as the artists themselves.
Jaime Forero, Karl Lindgren and Sarah Nelson: Thesis Exhibition Artists' Reception at PCNW: Friday, May 19, 6-8 P.M. These graduating thesis students each posses a style that is uniquely their own, but they share a passion for fine art photography that has led them through years of in-depth study as part of PCNW's rigorous Certificate Program. Please join us in recognizing their accomplishment with two exhibits featuring their work in a variety of formats and addressing themes as individual as the artists themselves.
Jessica Todd Harper: Portraits from Private Spaces Artist's Reception at PCNW: Friday, April 7, 6-8 P.M. Jessica Todd Harper has been depicting her family and friends in large-scale color photographs
since 2000. The project began in graduate school while Harper was losing her grandmother
to the anonymity of Alzheimer's disease. Her grandmother's fleeting and occasional
moments of comfort with the formally familiar things, rooms and people from her disappearing
past raised questions for Harper about memory, the private meanings of things and the interior
world of the mind. Harper started to make pictures about the women in her family-
herself, her living relatives, as well as incorporating ancestors depicted in photographs
and paintings from the past. Self-portraits, family portraits and later, portraits
of female friends, have been ways of examining women in domestic environments, often preoccupied
with private thoughts. The pictures address a particular part of identity that is
linked with the internal world, family, friends, and the home. Long exposures, carefully
composed backgrounds and an affinity for natural light are the result of Harper's admiration
of Dutch still life painters and the portrait artists of the Northern Renaissance. March 2 - March 31
Jonathan Moller: Our Culture is Our Resistance: Lecture, Book Signing & Reception at PCNW: Friday, March 3, 6-9 P.M. For the past ten years Jonathan Moller has photographed communities uprooted by war in Guatemala . The result is Our Culture Is Our Resistance , a collection of portraits taken during that decade, revealing stories of life and death, of hope and despair, and of struggles for survival, respect, and truth. The beauty and strength of Moller's photographs and the accompanying texts not only document and preserve the faces and events associated with this land and its history, but also display for the viewer the humanity and dignity of these largely Mayan indigenous peoples. Jonathan Moller studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University in 1990. His photographs have been widely exhibited, and are in the permanent collections of numerous museums and institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the George Eastman House, Rochester, the International Polaroid Corporation, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, and the Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba. Moller's work has been featured in LIFE: 2001 Album , The Year in Pictures , The Photo Review , and DoubleTake . He was awarded the 2001 Henry Dunant Prize for Excellence in Journalism by the International Red Cross for best photo reportage in Central America and the Caribbean, the 2002 Fellowship Award from the Society for Contemporary Photography, the 2003 Golden Light Award from the Maine Photographic Workshops, and a 2003 Vision Award from the Santa Fe Center for Photography January 17 - February 27
Todd Hido: Unfinished Narratives Lecture, Book Signing & Reception at PCNW: Friday, February 17, 6:30-9:00 P.M., lecture tickets $5 Todd Hido makes color photographs using available light and long exposures. His early subjects were contemporary quotidian suburbia, empty of people and otherworldly, suggestive of abandonment and isolation. The work in his newer Roaming series appears arrestingly different than that in Hido's previous two groups of images. Hido has moved out of the suburbs—he is literally roaming about a somber, moody, rain soaked countryside. It is as if, having spent so many nights outside the eerie, brightly lit suburban tract homes featured in House Hunting and Outskirts, he has suddenly put his foot on the gas pedal and driven into the next day. But these landscapes continue Hido's mastery in portraying the most mundane scenes with a menacing air of expectancy. These pictures, often taken through a car windshield, are so effective in creating tension they might almost have been staged. But in fact they are taken “as seen;” the telegraph poles, the straggling tree, the road leading nowhere are all exactly as encountered by Hido as he drove through Eastern Washington State, the California Central Valley, Indiana, Ohio, South Louisiana and beyond. Todd Hido is a San Francisco-based artist whose work has been featured in ArtForum, The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim, NYC, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum and many others. The editions of his books of photographs, House Hunting, Outskirts, and Roaming, have all sold out. His latest book, Dark Quarters, will be released in Fall 2006 from Nazraeli Press.
PCNW Members' Juried Exhibition Artists' Reception: Friday, December 2, 6:00–8:00 P.M. Submission guidelines: see www.pcnw.org, gallery section. Deadline for receipt of entries: Saturday, October 29, 4:00 pm. This year's juror, Marita Holdaway has owned and operated Benham Gallery in Seattle for over 13 years. She has presented workshops for artists internationally and has helped them further their careers by developing their professional tools for finding and successfully approaching appropriate venues.
Aperture West Collaborative Lecture Series presents Gary Schneider “Expeditions and Exploration” Tickets: $5, Free to Aperture Subscribers Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the UCLA Hammer Museum, the San Francisco PhotoAlliance and the Photographic Center Northwest presents the second annual Collaborative lecture series, “Expeditions and Exploration.” Gary Schneider's approach to portraiture reflects the artist's fascination with biology and the elemental nature of the individual. He presents a haunting series of nudes and faces that emerge and seem to float above a receding black ground. Each image is rendered through a long exposure and by exploring the surfaces of the skin with a small handheld light. His photographs were recently exhibited at Harvard University's Fogg Museum in February 2004, incorporating work from his acclaimed solo exhibition, Genetic Self-Portrait, an artistic response to the Human Genome Project. He has shown extensively in museums both here and abroad. October 17 - November 29, 2005
Jason Fulford: Sunbird & Crushed Lecture & Slide Presentation at PCNW: Thursday, October 20, 7:00 P.M.,
free Jason Fulford was born in Atlanta, GA. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1995. In 2000, he and artist Leanne Shapton co-founded J&L Books, a non-profit publisher of art and fiction. Fulford now works as a freelance photographer. His photographs have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Newsweek, Fortune and The Nation. He has exhibited his work in the US and Europe. This exhibition mounts images from Fulford's two books Sunbird (2000) and Crushed (2003) onto gallery walls for the first time. Fulford's work has been described as sad, funny, beautiful, tragic, absurd, and banal. Grace Jeffers had this to say, “When we look through the lens of Jason Fulford, the mundane becomes alive with alluring shapes and poetic moments. He shows us that which television and glossy magazines have taught us to overlook — beauty and humor in the everyday.” Fulford's lecture presentation will touch on his work as well as his book publishing company, J&L. The subject matter ranges from the United States to Canada, France, Hungary, India, Iceland, China and Romania. “I want to make images that suggest things, but don't give you the answers — images you can come back to a year later and see differently,” Jason says 6th Annual FOTO REVU The FOTO REVU is a unique opportunity to receive one-on-one professional critiques by some of the Northwest's most respected people in the field of photography. Participating in this event is a great way to meet and network with colleagues and see work from other Northwest artists. Each registered photographer will have five(5) 20-minute review sessions to receive feedback and advice that is useful to you as an artist. $150 (5 reviews – half day) $250 (10 reviews – full day) Schedule
Foto Revu-ers You have the opportunity for your portfolio to be reviewed by a range of enthusiastic professionals: artists, gallery owners, museum curators, educators, and publishers. A partial list of reviewers includes:
Foto Revus FOTO REVU reviews are assigned by lottery in order to assure fairness. Each participant's name will be drawn five times. Each time the participant's name is drawn one REVU-er slot can be reserved. No guarantees will be made regarding time-slots with specific REVU-ers. Lotteries will be held at the beginning of each session. There are two (2) sessions: Sunday, October 9th-Morning; Sunday, October 9th-Afternoon. The lottery drawing will begin at 8:30 am & 1:15 pm. Register early - space is limited and sessions will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration can be done online or by contacting PCNW.
An Evening with Eikoh Hosoe & book signing Tickets: $8, $6 PCNW members and students. Call (206) 720-7222 for tickets or purchase at
PCNW Photographic Center Northwest is pleased to announce An Evening with Eikoh Hosoe at the Theatre off Jackson . Eikoh Hosoe is undoubtedly among the most important masters of photography since world war II. He is an integral part of the history of modern Japanese photography and remains a driving force in photography, not only for his own work, but also as a teacher and as an ambassador, fostering artistic exchange between Japan and the outside world. His influence has been felt in his native country and throughout the international photographic community. Eikoh Hosoe was born in Yonezawa, Yamagata in 1933 and was brought up in Tokyo . At age 17, he decided to become a photographer. He graduated from Tokyo College of Photography in 1951 and first exhibited in a one-man show in 1956; since then, for almost half a century, he has been producing epoch-making works and has established himself as an internationally acclaimed photographer. He soon abandoned a documentary style for bold images utilizing mythology, metaphor, and theatrical impulses. Hosoe has been a professor of photography at Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics since 1975 and has taught many photography workshops in Europe and in the U.S. "To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a 'mirror' or 'window' of self-expression. The camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye. And yet the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory." —Eikoh Hosoe September 1 - October 15, 2005
Chris Jordan: Intolerable Beauty Portraits of American Mass Consumption Artist's Reception: Friday, September 16, 6:00–8:00 P.M. Chris Jordan explores the country's industrial yards and waste facilities, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical, full of irony and even strangely beautiful. These vast piles of junk serve as visual metaphors for the difficult questions that Americans face as the earth's most voracious resource gluttons. Chris Jordan's large-format color photographs are being shown this year in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and Milano Italy.
10th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition, Artists' Reception at PCNW following the above lecture: Friday, July 15th, 8pm-9:30pm This year's juror Mary Virginia Swanson, selected 70 images for Focused. 450 photographers entered the competition resulting in over 2500 images from which to choose. The show features a diverse spectrum of photographic work including conceptualism, evocative portraits, non-traditional urban landscapes, and narratives in black & white, color, digital & alternative processes. Swanson is a leader in the fields of marketing and licensing fine art photography.
Letter to competitors and jury results.
PCNW Thesis Exhibition Artists' Reception: Friday, June 3, 6-8 pm Graduating students will showcase their thesis projects: Lisa Ahlberg, Ken Claflin,Toni Dysert, John Hannah, Jennifer Stanton. PCNW offers a 3-year fine art photography certificate program. Upon completing the program, students refine their ability to create a body of work in the Advanced Portfolio and Thesis courses. During this time that students are engaged in work on their thesis, they meet with faculty advisors and develop a body of work of gallery stature. Students then defend their work before a committee and, if successful, celebrate the award of their certificate and the showing of their work as part of the annual thesis exhibition.
Hiroshi Watanabe Artist's Reception: Friday, April 15, 6-8 pm Hiroshi Watanabe was born in Sapporo , Japan . He graduated from Department of Photography, College of Art , at Nihon University in 1975. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation and became involved in the production of Japanese TV commercials, eventually working as a producer. He later established his own production company and produced more than 300 commercials for Japan . He received an MBA degree from UCLA Business School in 1993. In 1995 his passion for photography rekindled, and since then he has traveled worldwide extensively, photographing what he finds intriguing at that moment and place. In 2000 he closed the production company in order to devote himself entirely to the art and became a full-time photographer. His work has been published in Japan , USA , South America , and Europe , and he has exhibited in many galleries across the United States and is included in several collections. He has also received awards from Advertising Photographers Association in Japan , Los Angeles Times, Western Art Directors Club, London Photographic Awards, Advertising Photographers of America, Photo Review, Center for Photographic Art, and International Photography Awards Thursday, April 7, 2005 Sylvia Plachy Lecture
In 1956, in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution, thirteen year old Sylvia Plachy fled her native Hungary with her parents, carrying nothing but a small suitcase and a teddy bear, ultimately arriving in the U.S. in 1958. Over the past forty years, Sylvia has returned to her homeland regularly to photograph Eastern Europe at various periods of transition and to search for her lost childhood. Plachy published regularly in periodicals including the The New Yorker, TIME, Smithsonian, GEO , and The Village Voice. Her latest book is Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home, 2004, published by Aperture. Other books include Unguided Tour , for which she won an International Center of Photography Infinity Award; Red Light , and Signs and Relics . She has won a Guggenheim fellowship, and has had one-person shows at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, the Queens Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, among other international venues. March 2 - April 13, 2005
Fotografenbüro Sylvia Chybiak Guest Curator: Robert Lyons Fotografenbüro, an exhibition of the work of Lux, the Berlin based photo bureau. This exhibit is the first in the United States for this group of photographers. Each of these six photographers has a distinctly different approach to image making including highly conceptual work to autobio- graphical work. February 1- 27, 2005
Elinor Carucci, Closer Born in 1971 in Jerusalem, Elinor Carucci received her BFA from
Bezalel Academy of Art. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions
at the Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Photographers' Gallery,
London; Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt, Prague House of Photography,
Prague; Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York; and Quint Contemporary Art,
La Jolla, CA. She has also participated in group shows at the Brooklyn
Museum of Art, The Museum for Israeli Art, and the Israel Museum. January 4 - 28, 2005
PCNW Members' Juried Exhibition Juror Susan Rosenberg, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Seattle, Art Museum 1st Prize: Joel Sanders, Genevieve December 1 - 19, 2004 Photographs from the PCNW Collection & Paris Salon Show October 28 - November 29, 2004
Eduardo Calderón - Fotografías Fotografías - an exhibition of black & white photographs
by Eduardo Calderón during walks in the cities of Rome, Arequipa,
Cuzco, New York, Sayulita and Seattle. August 31 - October 23, 2004 Seattle Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50 At Bumbershoot, Aug. 31 - Sept. 6, noon - 8 pm June 18 - July 13, 2004 Thesis Exhibition Graduating students will showcase their thesis projects: Nick Duers, Benno Jones, Amy Mullen, Jane Patterson, Lara Pederson Randolph May 18 - June 15, 2004 Thesis Exhibition Graduating students will showcase their thesis projects: Bellen Drake, Charles Miró-Quesada, Laurel Schultz, Luke Strosnider, Kerry M. Zimmerman April 1 - May 15, 2004 March 1 - 29, 2004 An Exhibition of Photographs from the Collection of Paul Brainerd - A Collector's Eye January 3 - 29, 2004 Members' Juried Show December 1 - 19, 2003 Paris Salon Show December 1 - 19, 2003 Bruce Davidson - East 100th Street 1966 - 1968 November 1 - 29, 2003 Ken Rosenthal - Seen and Not Seen October 1 - 30, 2003 Seth Thompson - Poca Luz August 1 - September 28, 2003 8th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition: Sustaining Vision July 2 - 29, 2003 Thesis Exhibition June 2 - 29, 2003 Thesis Exhibition May 2 - 29, 2003 Harold E. Edgerton - Seeing
the Unseen April 1 - 29, 2003 Lincoln Clarkes - Heroines March 1 - 30, 2003 Heidi L. Kirkpatrick - From
My Window Seat February 1-27, 2003 David Samuel Robbins - Himalayan
Odyssey January 3 - 30, 2003 Members' Juried Exhibition December 1 - 20, 2002 Wes Pope - Pop66: pop can
pinhole photos of Route 66 November 1 - 29, 2002 Nancy LeVine - A Dog's
Book of Truths October 1 - 30, 2002 Ann Pallesen - Sleeper September 4 - 29, 2002 Andrew Miksys, Artist-in-Residence - Paper
Heart July 12 - August 30, 2002 7th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition - Personal
Viewpoints July 1 - 7, 2002 The Paris Salon Show June 2 - 29, 2002 Thesis Exhibition Graduating students will showcase their thesis projects: Poppy Barach,
Erin Cordry, Ineke de Lange, Linda Jean Moran, Adriane Stocking & Warren
Wilson. May 3 - 30, 2002 Kubota Gardens Student work from the Natural Light Portraiture class with Patricia Ridenour exhibiting upstairs at Photographic Center Northwest. May 2 - 30, 2002 Jeffrey Braverman - Chalkboard
Portraits April 2 - 29, 2002 John Lewis - Manifest Destiny March 1 - 30, 2002 Weegee the Famous (Authur Fellig) Vintage Prints by the Famous News Photographer from the Collection
of Alan and Ellen Newberg (Weegee's niece) February 1 - 27, 2002 Steven N. Meyers - Botanical
Radiographs, Fine Art X-Ray Photography January 3 - 30, 2002 Photographic Center Northwest's Members' Show November 6 - December 21, 2001 Elliott Erwitt - Snaps October 4 - November 3, 2001 Take My Picture: Emerging
Artists Show August 16 - September 29, 2001 Espíritu de México/Spirit
of Mexico - Contemporary Mexican Photography August 28 - September 3, 2001 Within/Without: Contemporary
Photographs of Cuba July 5- August 14, 2001 6th Annual Juried Photographic Competition – Beneath the Surface June 1 - 29, 2001 Thesis Exhibition Graduating students will showcase their thesis projects: Artists
David Adam Edelstein, Elsie Hulsizer, Karen Howard, May 1 - 30, 2001 Paul Sundberg - Lith Prints April 2 - 29, 2001 Gary Oliveira - Stranded Analogies March 2 - 30, 2001 David Walega - Pinhole Series February 2 - 27, 2001 John Molloy - two January 3 - 30, 2001 PCNW Members' Juried Show December 2 - 31, 2000 Peggy Washburn November 2-18, 2000 Take My Picture - Emerging Artists Show October 2-30, 2000 Richard Lewis - Dry Falls and Flooded Valleys: The Columbia Basin Revisited September 5-29, 2000 Tim Greyhavens - Runes and Incantations July 7, 2000 - August 30, 2000 Courteney Coolidge - American Families: Beyond the White Picket Fence, Celebrating the changing face of American Families June 2 - 29, 2000 Jenn Reidel - In Her Dreams May 3 - 30, 2000 Gertrude Blom - Chiapas, México Bearing Witness April 3 - 29, 2000 Claire Garoutte - Cuba March 3 - 30, 2000 Gary Grenell - Green Lake Biodiversity February 4 - March 29, 2000 WTO Conference Week: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly February 2 - 28, 2000 Timothy Payne Karr - Hanoi Photographs January 4 - 30, 2000 Scott Bickell - Recent Photographs December 3 - 31, 1999 PCNW Members Holiday Juried Exhibition November 2 - 30, 1999 Take My Picture October 1 - 31, 1999 A Vision Honored September 3 - 28, 1999 Linda Connor - In the Last Decade August 1 - 30, 1999 Beth Yarnelle Edwards - Suburban Dreams July 1 - 30, 1999 David Johnson - Impressioni Italiane (Italian Impressions) |
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