Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
I am happy to announce that ten images from my Nighttime Portfolio have been chosen for the Blue Sky Gallery’s Pacific NW Viewing Drawers. The gallery is located in Portland, Oregon. These images are a part of the 2016 juried selections for the Viewing Drawers program and will be available at the Gallery for a year. Blue Sky, www.blueskygallery.org/ is a fantastic place, a must see in Portland for anyone who cares about photography. I am honored to be in these hallowed halls.
My Nighttime Portfolio is made up mostly of images made in the Seattle neighborhoods of Georgetown and South Park over the last five years or so. I began the series because I felt a need to document the rebuilding of the Argo Bridge a few blocks from my studio. As the old Bridge was demolished so was the quick walk and/or drive over to Georgetown from South Sodo. I simply did not have time to photograph the Bridge consistently during the day and I found that at night, the workers were gone, the train yards were still active and no one seemed to care if I was out there wandering around with a camera and a tripod. It was a great setting in which to stumble about and shoot my heart out. Many students accompanied me on these forays as well and I thank them for that. Below are the ten images chosen for the Viewing Drawers. They will be available from April 7th on. Stop by if you are in Portland. PS: the featured image is titled, Lucille Crossing, 2013.
South Park Bridge, Rebuilt, 2014
Under the Argo Bridge, 2012
Behind the Hanger Cafe, 2013
Albro Street between 13th Avenue South and Stanley Street, 2015
Off Airport Way, north of the Argo Bridge, 2015
13th Avenue South. 2014
Alley off Stanley Street, 2014
Along Airport Way at South Vale Street, 2015
Corner of Stanley Street and Albro Avenue, Looking North, 2015
Nov 22, 2014 | Blog
I am honored to be chosen as part of the Seattle’s Photographic Center Northwest, PCNW Presents program. They have selected ten photographers to represent for the next two years and will be showing the work in the gallery where people can buy it. This is a big first for me, to have gallery representation in my hometown, and I am humbled and grateful. And I am in very good company with the likes of Jenny Riffle, (http://www.jennyriffle.com/) and Glenn Rudolph (http://www.glennrudolph.com/), both amazing NW photographers. Others include Sylvia Plachy, a photographer I have admired since the 1980’s. For more detailed information on all the photographers, go to http://pcnw.org/exhibitions/pcnw-presents/ Over the next few months the two photographs below will be hanging in the gallery. Stop by and take a look and also visit the show in the main gallery, Well Read: Visual Explorations of the Book. It will make you think differently about books in general.
I have taught at PCNW for the last seven years and have always said that it is the heart and soul of photography in Northwest. I love teaching my ten week class at night: an introduction to the DSLR and “serious” digital photography. I think there is still room in the Monday night class that starts in January. And I will post whenever the PCNW Presents photographers have work on the wall. Stay tuned.
Featured image for this post Georgetown Backyards from the Albro Bridge, 2014 One of my newest night photographs, captured with a DSLR this year.
The two images below while both night photographs were each captured differently. The top image, The Road to Grant’s 50th, is a digital capture made with a DSLR. The image below is made on color negative film, exposed in a pinhole camera. Despite the differences in capture, they have many similarities that may or may not come through on the computer screen. All the more reason to go to the gallery!
Title: The Road to Grant’s 50th, 2012
Print Size: 22” x 15” Frame Size: 22” x 28”
Print Type: Digital Capture Printed on Crane’s Portfolio Rag Paper with Archival Inks
Title: Due West: Lost Coast, California, 2013
Print Size: 22” x 15” Frame Size: 22” x 28”
Print Type: C-41 color negative film exposed in a 4 x 5 inch pinhole camera; Negative scanned and printed on Crane’s Portfolio Rag Paper with Archival Ink
Nov 18, 2014 | Blog
Right around the Solstice last summer, I asked everyone in the building where I live and work to expose a pinhole camera from their windows for ninety days for the Pinhole Project. The idea was to expose all the cameras from each studio in the building, leaving the cameras up from the Solstice to the Equinox. The cameras recorded amazing trails of the sun all summer and into the fall. The views are recognizable, at least for those of us who are here every day and tended the cameras through the heat of last summer. The colors are mysterious and varied. I thank my colleagues, friends, fellow artists, neighbors all who participated. I did not know, until we did this, how beautiful our neighborhood actually is or much the sun shines on us or how the freeway is just a little toy off in the distance. I also did not know you can see the light of the sun trails to north and the south as well as east and west.
The building where I live and work is an artist’s coop. We own the building together, 20 units in all and I have always loved the views, from all sides of the building. I wanted to capture them with the long exposure pinhole cameras, hoping this was a good idea, but during the ninety days, I worried that the images might come out all the same. the views, the sun trails, the colors and the group as a whole would be boring. Scanning completely proved me wrong. The thirty images which I have uploaded here are titled with the name/unit number of the pinhole photographer. The grid, as it appears below, echoes how the printed images were hung in my studio last weekend. Below the grid are all the images which can be viewed individually. The building sits up against I-5 in the SoDo area of Seattle right before the Spokane Street interchange. The front of the building faces due west, the back east, a few units have south windows, and all the units that face north have windows in that direction. The featured image shows a pinhole image of the building that I made last spring. It is a 30 day exposure and shows the building’s west side. You can see the sun trails from the east above the building and the sun trails from the west reflected in the front windows.
The 30 images were featured at the Open Studios at out building this past November 15th. They are still up on my studio wall and will be up until Christmas time. Another opening will happen early in December. Stay tuned for dates and times and thanks for your continued support of the Pinhole Project.
Oct 2, 2013 | Blog
I am teaching a night class that started last Friday. It was a wonderful night free of the threatened downpour. We meandered from South Sodo to Georgetown, shooting along the way, actually only covering a small area. We are posting images to a flickr. group and you can go there over the course of the next four weeks to see the work the group and I make. The image posted here, Lucille Crossing, to the North is my ode to the Lucille Street train as it crosses Lucille at the Argo Bridge and Airport, where trains are close enough to touch. The featured image is Lucille Crossing, To the South. Here’s the link, to our group http://www.flickr.com/groups/2288163@N25/
Feb 26, 2013 | Portfolio
Featured image: Stanley Ave South and South Albro
I have been working since 2013 on a project called NightTime. These images were all made within the neighborhood where I live near the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. The neighborhood is a mixture of industrial and residential structures, full of train yards, factories, overpasses, trailers, small homes and beautiful gardens. Situated at the end of Boeing Field, it endures an enormous amount of truck, train and airplane traffic. In 2014, the Argo Yard Bridge, connecting the neighborhood to downtown Seattle via Airport Way was closed for reconstruction for about 18 months. It was a time of heavy construction on the bridge mixed with greatly reduced truck traffic along the streets. Georgetown was in the throes of change. My photographs try to capture both that change and the historical nature of the area.
At night Georgetown is alive. The freeway, the train yards, the Duwamish River and Boeing Field create the four edges of the neighborhood. These edges hum with noise and movement, yet there is solitude to be found on the tracks after trains pass, in the alleys after planes land and on the streets when the trucks are silent.
The Nighttime images are a work in progress. This portfolio will continue to evolve and change, just as Georgetown has done. The images are printed in an edition of 10/15 x 10 inches. All images are shot with low ISO, long exposure digital capture and printed on rag paper with archival inks. Please inquire about print availability, size and pricing. Please see the blog for updates about this portfolio: ten of these images were in the viewing drawers of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon during 2016. They were shown at Gallery 110 in Seattle for the month of September, 2017.
South Park Bridge, Rebuilt, 2014
Under the Argo Bridge, 2012
Albro Street between 13th Avenue South and Stanley Street, 2015
Off Airport Way, north of the Argo Bridge, 2015
13th Avenue South. 2014
Alley off Stanley Street, 2014
Along Airport Way at South Vale Street, 2015
Corner of Stanley Street and Albro Avenue, Looking North, 2015
