PCNW Presents: 10 Photographers
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...
Out There: Long Exposure Pinhole Photography from the Sunny Arms
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...
Ode to a Contact Sheet
Quite a few years ago Jess and I took a roll of film of each other, standing in the same place with the old twin lens reflex I was using at the time. I found this contact sheet recently and pinned it to the wall. The two rolls of film, overlaid as shot are full of...
April Surgent’s Pinholes
April Surgent is a glass artist who went to Antarctica on an artist grant with 20 pinhole cameras. She worked there for several weeks, making many creative and unusual pinhole photographs using cameras that had two or more pinholes. Tonight, a show including these...
In honor of G. Lucas Crane on his Wedding Day
G. Lucas Crane is all grown up. He is the son of my dear friends who have been there for me all the way from grade school. Beyond grown up, Lucas is in his thirties: a musician, performer, artist and all around genius. And he got married just this past August....
The Day Job is Calling
As most people know, I am a high school photography teacher. It was never my intent. I enjoyed teaching after graduate school but never wanted to "deal" with teenagers and definitely did not intend ever to have a steady job. Then, there was no other way but one...
A Portrait of Jess: Tales of Mamiyas and Sugarcult
Sometime ago I found a box of negatives from an old Mamiya twin lens that slipped when the film advanced. I loved that camera; it made great double exposures, sometimes intentional, sometimes not. In the box was this image of Jess, taken around 2002, a double...
The Pinhole Project: Some Standouts
First let me say that there are no bad pinhole images. Of all the pinholes in the archive, there is not one single bad one. People fret about where to place the camera but ultimately it does not matter. Each image is a wild ride with light and shape and time. These ...
LoupeHoles and Other Musings on Pinhole Photography
My first encounter with pinhole photography was in 1986 when late one night, my husband and I punched a hole in the brick wall of the landing outside my studio door to see if we could put a window there overlooking the vacant lot. The next morning when I went...
Thinking about the Kid Pictures
The first time I photographed my daughter Jess was about twelve hours after she was born. The nurse brought her to me in my hospital room, she was wailing with what I later figured out was hunger. I laid her on the slice of light falling on the bed and took a few...