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Photo⊕Craft 2 opens on Saturday, September 14, 2013 with an artists’ reception from 6-9pm

Congrats! to the following photographers for being selected for the Photo⊕Craft 2 exhibit!
Thank you to all the photographers that submitted work for this exhibit!

Nancy Abens • Christina Anderson • Hillary Atiyeh • Diana Bloomfield • Christa Bowden • Judi Brandel • Claude Pascual Dutombe 
Troy Colby • Al Crane • K.K. Depaul • Barbara Dombach • Sean Duggan • Evan Stanfield • Marita Gootee • Rene Hales & Melissa Hall
Jaime Johnson • Hope Kahn • Katie Kalkstein • Sandra Klein • Ky Lewis • Marek Matusz • Erin McGuire • Michelle Rogers Pritzl 
Walt O’brien • Heather Oelklaus • Paris Carter • Lori Pond • Jacinda Russell • Gwen Samuals • Scott Bulger • Laurie Schoor 
Cody Swanson • Athena Tasiopoulos • Terry K Thompson • Tom Kirkendall • Rachel Wolf & Joseph Deiss

       Congratulations to Christina Anderson for receiving the Publisher’s Award,  awarded to one photographer who’s work will be featured in the upcoming ‘special’ issue of Diffusion Magazine to be released in September 2013.  Selections for the exhibit will be showcased on Plates to Pixels.

       LightBox Photographic Gallery and Plates to Pixels are established exhibition spaces, one in this dimension and one in the virtual world, promoting, along with Diffusion Magazine, the best of alternative and creative photography. We wish to showcase a group of the most imaginative and process oriented photographic artists working in the field today. In this group exhibition we are recognizing works that have a strong conceptual voice balanced with a high level of craftsmanship, exhibiting a full-bodied show, with a wide-range of work that strongly represents the unconventional methods currently available to photographers.

       This exhibit is juried by Blue Mitchell. Founding Editor, Diffusion: Unconventional Photography www.diffusionmag.com  Curator/Founder, Plates to Pixels Gallery www.platestopixels.com

      In regards to craftsmanship,  I’m interested in the full process of the work,  from concept to capture,  from production to presentation. Like our inaugural Photo-Craft show,  I hope to see work that challenges the viewer to think about photography as tool to deliver an emotion, a statement, or a passion and not just another ‘picture’. I’d like our viewers to forget they’re looking at a photograph because they’re so moved by its’ content and presence. I look forward to being moved myself. ~ Blue Mitchell, Juror

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Coming in November


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Chris Bennett • Along the Way

                                                                                                                                             


                                                                                                       

       The project, “Along the Way”, is a visual documentation of the modern day route of the Corps of Discovery led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark between 1803-1806. In 2010 and 2011 I visited and photographed over 30 historical sites and locations along the route in Washington and Oregon. In the summer of 2011 I followed along the entire route by car back to River Camp DuBois near St. Louis, Missouri, photographing historical sites as well as other places I discovered along the way.

       Some of these places are pristine and untouched, perhaps exactly how the Corps of Discovery might have viewed them. Others have been affected by the contemporary American landscape, with houses, farms, Dams, factories and cities built up around it. These places might not be known for their historical significance, but capture the modern culture and embody the presence of the Corps of Discovery once passing through the area. Many of the small towns along the route feature restaurants, gift shops, gas stations and roadside attractions that reference the two explorers in some way.

       Christopher Bennett is a photographer and photo educator living in Portland Oregon. His work experience includes the George Eastman House, the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and Photo-eye Books & Gallery. Chris is the founder and Director of Newspace Center for Photography.

Showpage

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Ann Kendellen • Trees:Real and Imagined

 

                                                                                                        

 

While wandering through towns from British Columbia to Louisiana, I find myself captivated by trees. We take this living plant and carve, prune and decorate it. We also take the surface of an exterior wall and imagine the tree upon it.

The tree is a potent symbol. It can suggest beauty and happiness, protection and strength, or balance and healing. Individual trees represent very particular characteristics. The elm is intuition; the aspen determination; the willow magic and dreams.

In an urban habitat trees may survive and even thrive. They can spring from cracks in concrete, reaching up to light and life. In curious combinations, renderings of trees sometimes sit beside the living plant. Other times the painted tree is hidden in grimy alleys and parking lots. The tree’s deep relationship with us, like its living branches or sketched leaves, remains both real and imagined.

Biographical Sketch:

Whether photographing family life or urban settings, my interests lie with people. How we impact, respond to, and change our environment is one facet of a project like Trees Real and Imagined.

I graduated from the University of Colorado with a major in Sociology and minors in Fine Arts and English. Since 1986 I have lived in Portland, Oregon, serving as longtime volunteer on the Blue Sky Gallery board and exhibition committee.

My work has been exhibited, among other places, at Blue Sky Gallery, the Portland Art Museum, Portland International Airport, Froelick Gallery, City Club of Portland, the Internationale Fotoage in Germany, the Center for Fine Art Photography, A Smith Gallery, and the San Diego Art Institute. Images are held in private and public collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Portland Art Museum, the Visual Chronicle Collection of Portland, and the Whatcom Museum of History and Art.

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The Last Spooky Show

The Spooky Show started in our first year, 2009, to celebrate the inherent spookiness of our town Astoria.
An exhibit for photographs that are haunting, mysterious, evoking a sense of unease, while maintaining an element of beauty!
Please check out past Spooky Shows on our gallery showpages and consider adding to the frightful yet delightful exhibit this year.  

        We are accepting submissions for The Last Spooky Show. 

         Deadline for submissions is Midnight, Sunday, September 8th.

          
We invite photographic artists working in all processes.

          Juried by LightBox Directors, Michael and Chelsea


Last Chance for the Last Spooky, let's go out in style!

Entry Guidelines


Entry Form

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       Our new monthly exhibits featuring Mobile Photography, where we give recognition to this popular form of photography and put a fine art print in everyone's hands, has been a  lot of fun and we have enjoyed seeing and printing each and every submission! There's a new mini exhibit every month. Everyone receives an archivally printed print with every submission. 

      We are very pleased to have Michelle Bates, the queen of toy cameras, as our juror for our October 2013 MobileMagic exhibit. Michelle has been a passionate photographer since she was young, and learned her way around a camera in 1991 at the Maine Photographic Workshops, where she first discovered the Holga. Since then, Michelle has shown work in solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, New York, Los Angeles and Israel, and in group shows around the US, Italy, Germany & Thailand. 

       For over 20 years, I've been in love with the way the Holga camera interprets the world: slightly fuzzy, with bowed rough edges, vignetting, light leaks and other artifacts. For most of this time, the images looked odd to most people, and both the technical and aesthetic angles took some explanation. What is most surprising to me about the cell phone photography revolution is the immense popularity of toy-cameraesque photos and other styles based on old-school techniques. It seems the 'default' style of clear, sharp rectangular photos doesn't hold in the digital world, which opens up imagery to an infinite palette of interpretations. While the options can be overwhelming, it also creates opportunity to create personal artistic vision based on, but outside of, the built-in filters and styles that the many apps offer.  ~Michelle Bates

      MobileMagic is a monthly exhibit opening during our regular Second Saturday Monthly Openings. Each month we display archival pigment prints of the top twenty-five juried images, selected by a renown juror from the photographic community. LightBox will print every submission, that’s right, every single submission, not just the juror’s top twenty-five, all printed as a 100% archival rag print, to be mailed to the photographer. 

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GUIDELINES PDF

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MobileMagic Webpage

 

QUINTON GORDON & DIANA MILLAR

LightBox Members Exhibit 2013

This year our members' exhibit will open on Saturday, December 7th, 2013

LightBox Members will receive email instructions for this all inclusive curated exhibit!

Please contact us with interest in becoming a member!

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LightBox Photographic Gallery & Fine Printing
 

 

          LightBox produces fine photographic prints in many mediums.  We offer traditional fiber silver gelatin prints, analog optical custom color c-prints, and quality archival inkjet prints. We would like to welcome you to use our services in whatever medium you are interested in. Our services and price list are on our website. Michael has many years of experience in photographic printing and loves to produce beautiful quality prints in all mediums. Contact Michael for interest in using LightBox's photographic printing services.