1st Annual Wild Landscape

The Wild Landscape of Northeast Oregon – Wallowa, Baker and Union Counties: A Juried Photography Exhibit at the Josephy Center for Arts & Culture in Joseph, Oregon

The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph, Oregon is honored to present an open invitation for photographers to exhibit their work of the wild landscape of northeast Oregon (including Wallowa, Baker and Union counties) in August 2015. The exhibit is the first of its kind and will be a Juried Prize Exhibit held August 1– September 1, 2015. The deadline to submit photographs is coming up: June 1, 2015 by 5 p.m. Notice of acceptance will be July 1, 2015 and the opening will be Saturday, August 1, 2015, running through the end of the month. Cash awards totaling more than $1600 will be awarded at the judge’s discretion.

Northeast Oregon has been featured in the “Seven Wonders of Oregon” advertising campaign to enhance Oregon’s tourism and promote beautiful places in Oregon.  With this in mind, the Josephy Center would like to celebrate the area.  The exhibit also comes at an opportune time to commemorate the 50^th year of the Wilderness Act.  Northeast Oregon is home to many highly talented photographers who hike and explore the wild landscape of Northeast Oregon.  Each photograph should demonstrate the wild landscape of the region, from its river canyons to its bench grass prairies to Eagle Cap Wilderness. Our goal is to capture the diversity and beauty of the wild NE Oregon Landscape (Wallowa, Baker and Union Counties). Approximately 50-60 images will be exhibited at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture located in beautiful Joseph, Oregon near the Hells Canyon National Recreational Area, Wallowa Lake, Zumwalt Prairie, Eagle Cap Wilderness, and the Wallowa Mountains. All images must be taken in Northeast Oregon and must represent wilderness, meaning landscapes without man-made influence, such as barns, houses, signs or fences. Photos that include people visiting a wild landscape are acceptable only if individuals cannot be recognizable. Entry fee is $35 for three images, $8 per each additional entry with a limit of 8 total images. All entries must be the entrant’s original work. Entries will be made via our website: www.josephy.org by June 1, 2015.

Three judges have been invited to review all the selected images:  Kendrick Moholt of Lostine, Oregon, Daniel Thornton of Seattle, Washington, and David Paul Sayles of Corvallis, Oregon.

JUDGES

David Paul Bayles  <http://www.davidpaulbayles.com> left Los Angeles in the mid-seventies for the Sierra Nevada Mountains to work one season as a logger. He fell in love with the physicality, the camaraderie and the dangerous work. One season became four as he worked setting chokers, bumping knots and skinning cat. To this day he struggles to answer how he could love trees and forests even as he loved the work that brought them down. In a larger sense it is not his question alone. We are a culture that consumes and often abuses and destroys Nature in so many ways, even as we profess our love for her.

His personal projects have always been close to home and part of his daily life as a commercial photographer. Urban Forest was created while living and working in southern California. The Falling Forest was created while revisiting an earlier part of his life. And now with Working Forest and Living with Land, he is photographing the landscape that surrounds his home in the Coast Range of Western Oregon.

His photographs are in public and private collections; the Portland Art Museum. His one monograph to date, Urban Forest – Images of Trees in the Human Landscape was selected by the Christian Science Monitor as one of the seven best photography books of 2003.

Kendrick Moholt, <http://www.kendrickmoholtphotography.com>, a photographer, field zoologist and botanist, has worked for more than thirty years in North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Artist statement: all aspects of my life, work or play, reflect the fact that I am first and always a natural historian. My family, wild places and the creatures that live in wild places are the true sources of pleasure in my life. My photographic images reflect a view of the world through the eyes of an untamed natural historian.

Daniel Thornton < Alibi Pictures | What’s Your Story?> is an Emmy™ nominated filmmaker and photographer. Dan’s photo work moves between editorial and fine art. He particularly likes looking at obscure opportunities in natural and urban landscapes. His work has appeared in the Seattle Times, The Seattle Post Intelligencer, Roll Call Magazine, Sound on the Sound music magazine, Seismic Sound magazine, PBS, The Scotsman and in galleries around the Pacific Northwest.