Category: Photography

National Geographic Photo Camp

National Geographic Photo Camp Oregon is a photography learning experience, led by National Geographic Explorers and photographers Sara Hylton and Tailyr Irvine. This five-day workshop brought together 12 young people, inclusive of youth from indigenous communities who have called this area home for centuries, with a meaningful introduction to photojournalism as a career and a platform to share the power of their own voices. The theme of this Photo Camp focused on ways that the Wallowa River and other waterways connect communities throughout the region.

Instance in Time

A collaborative photography exhibit between Adele Buttolph & Rick McEwan. 

© Martin Bišof

Adele Buttolph
Nature, travel, and intentional camera movement technique are truly inspiring for me as a photographer. My intent is to capture the essence of a place or emotion, as I experience it. Each photograph preserves a unique portrayal of place and time. A capture may be slow and planned, or it may be spontaneous. Seeing the world through a lens simplifies one’s view, and deepens perception of a visual subject. It allows me to appreciate and reveal the magic that is present, a gift for taking the time to see.

Rick McEwan
As a nature photographer, I seek to communicate a sense of place through hours, days, sometimes years of personal experience in a location. As an artist, I endeavor to see the familiar in new and intriguing ways, seeing patterns and connections across time, and space, and experience. We live in a world where we document, through photography, our instances in time. To hold these photographs is to hold the memories in our lives.

You can also purchase the exhibit catalogue here. 

Funding for this exhibit provided by the Ford Family Foundation, Ann Werner, & your patronage!

Adele’s Virtual Exhibits

Ricks’ Virtual Exhibits

Fire Stories

NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS

Fire Stories is a historic and contemporary exploration of wildfire in Northwest landscapes. A collection of 1930s panoramic photographs from fire lookout sites paired with modern replicates provides unique perspective. As humans our relationship with fire is tangled with how we live on the land and use its resources. Native Americans had long learned to live with fire and made it useful. European settlement brought a different sensibility and the tools and organization to control fire. Little did we know that fire is essential to the function of nature, and in attempting to eliminate fire, we have brought worse fire on to ourselves. How does nature live with fire, and how can we? In this unprecedented time of climate change these are questions we cannot afford to ignore.  This exhibit will provide some answers and stimulate more thought and discussion.

This exhibit features the work of John Marshall.

Exhibit Walkthrough

 

View Finder

VIEW FINDER
WALLOWA VALLEY PHOTO CLUB

November 23 – December 22, 2020

About the Exhibit: “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”  – Dorothea Lange

The world, when focused through a camera’s view finder becomes intensified. Once learned, “One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time” says Annie Leibovitz. What a wonderful, potent, almost worshipful way to savor life.

Wallowa County, the Atlantic Ocean, Lake Powell, Maui…come see through the photographer’s eye and feel the places these view finders love.

Wallowa Valley Photo Club: We are a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization for the purpose of acting as a coordinating, educational, and service organization to foster, promote, encourage, and increase the knowledge, appreciation, and practice of photography. In recent years, the Photo Club has co-sponsored with the Wallowa County Chieftain the annual Wallowa Country Photo Contest, and we sponsor the Wallowa County Festival of the Arts at the Monet level by providing for prizes in photography. Photo Club meetings are always open to visitors. We would be very glad to have you join us. Contact us through wallowaphoto@gmail.com or check out our Facebook to confirm a meeting, get directions, or find out what is planned for the evening. 

Artists: Linda Bauck / Harold Black / Chris Bullat / Paul Freidel / Jane Glesne/ Trena Jones / Tamara Learn / Debbie Lind / Christian Niece / Eric Valentine / Michael Wardrip

Artist Biographie

Dream Oregon

Artist and Curator Anna Vogel

May 4 – June 18


“Take a tour through fantastic Oregon, as dreamed by local artists. See creatures and landscapes both strange and familiar.”

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4 at 7 PM – Free!

Dream Oregon Viritual Exhibit: Click Here!

Pre-Exhibit Concert: Friday, May 3 at 7 PM – OK Theatre – $10 – Album release for instrumental piano & drums duo Kinzie Steele, featuring live painting by Dream Oregon!

About the Exhibit: Please join the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture for the opening reception of “Dream Oregon,” an exciting new exhibit running from May 4th to June 18th. Doors open at 6:30 pm on Saturday, May 4th, and the event officially starts at 7 pm. Catering will be by the Wallowa Pop People Mark and Denise, the culinary duo behind Joseph’s gourmet ice pop stand. The sounds of local pianist Seth Kinzie and drummer Andy Steele’s new album, “When I was a Tree,” will be heard throughout the evening. Admission is free but donations are welcome. 

“Dream Oregon” started with artist and curator Anna Vogel’s vision of a homegrown Oregon mythology, created through art. She invited several artists to join her with their own take on the theme: Jennifer Klimsza, Talia Jean Gavin, Kelly Riggle, Kolle Riggs, and Carrie Chupp. Through photography, painting, sculpture and illustration, they bring us on a tour of Oregon from the tiniest pebble to the tallest mountain. A “Dream Oregon” book, featuring photos of artwork and artist’s biographies, will be for sale for $15 at the opening and throughout the duration of the exhibit.

We appreciate the support for this exhibit: the Wildhorse Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation and the Ford Family Foundation.

© Talia Galvin
© Jennifer Klimsza
© Jennifer Klimsza
© Carrie Chupp

History in Photos from Wallowa County

The January-February exhibit at the Josephy Center explores local history through early photos and photographers. David Weaver of the Wallowa History Center chose the photos from his own collection, the History Center’s, and from family photos brought in to the Center over the last few weeks. The opening will be on Sunday, January 6, from 3:00—5:00 p.m. Exhibits runs through February 25.

This specific exhibit has some special features. Carrie Chupp designed a beautiful exhibition booklet for us, featuring many of the photographs from the exhibit. It is available here for $20.

We also have a virtual exhibit, for those who live far away, available for viewing here. This was designed by Seth Kinzie.

The Wallowa Country has gained a reputation for its art and artists in recent years, but photographers were roaming the Country and sometimes setting up shop in a storefront in Enterprise or Wallowa from the earliest days of white settlement. They were undoubtedly our first professional artists.

The exhibit, which will include about 50 photos with captions, and in some cases brief essays explaining the context and naming the photographer, is a “sampling,” because family portraits were common, and with the invention of cheap cameras and advent of “postcard” photos in the early 1900s, taking photos of homes, camping, fishing, and hunting trips, trains, airplanes and football games was fair game for all. We know that there are thousands of photos still in albums and closets.

And we hope that you will be inspired by this exhibit to do your own family photo history exploration. You might also have comments on the photos in the exhibit—we welcome them. And the Center is exploring the possibility of posting more photos on our web site. This should only be a beginning.

Wilderness & Sublimity: Photography and the Conservation of Hells Canyon

The Third Show in Josephy Center for Arts and Culture’s
Wild Landscapes Series

The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in NE Oregon is developing a fine art photography show celebrating the wild lands and conservation of Hells Canyon.  The show’s opening reception is August 5, 2017 at 7 PM and will run until September 26.  It is our hope to then provide the show to other venues in Oregon, Idaho and nationally.  We have self published a book (http://www.blurb.com/b/8073187-wilderness-sublimity) to share both the art from the show and the amazing success story in land conservation.  The Josephy Center is offering an art residency, including a five day Snake River whitewater expedition through Hells Canyon, to six professional outdoor photographers and one writer.  The six photographers, who have committed to the trip, are: Boyd Norton, Jason Yale, Amy Gulick, Terry Donnelly, Rick McEwan, and Kendrick Moholt.  Cam Scott, a published writer and poet, has accepted the position of resident writer.

In the late 1960s, the last wild, un-dammed section of Hells Canyon was under threat of flood by damming.  Engineering field surveys and core sampling was underway and companies were in the courts trying to decide if the dam was to be run as a private or public corporation.  During this time, photographer Boyd Norton ran the river by raft, published photos in the January 1970 issue of Audubon Magazine and, with Brock Evans of the Sierra Club, took his photographs to the desk of Senator Bob Packwood.  Senator Packwood was astounded by the beauty and scale of Hells Canyon. Boyd, and other members of the Idaho Alpine Club, founded Hells Canyon Preservation Council. HCPC, with the support of  many other groups and Senator Packwood, worked for eight years to protect the great gorge.  The result was one of our nation’s greatest successes in natural resource conservation and it was inspired by the art of photography.  Mr. Norton has agreed to provide the Josephy Center his original work as a basis for our celebration and to participate in the creation of new work in 2017.  In addition to Mr. Norton, we have invited five more leaders in outdoor photography to create and show fine art photographs captured in the canyon.  All artistic decisions on how the 2017 photography is produced will be the responsibility of each artist. It is our expectation and vision that some of the art will be similar to the original photographs taken by Boyd Norton, but most will be a fresh, new and extremely different interpretation of the landscape that has been preserved.  This comparison and contrast with the past work will dramatically demonstrate what the preservation of North America’s natural treasures can provide for future generations.  And, this unique body of work, old and new, will be a shining example of how fine art photography can be a driving force in shaping our world.

We appreciate the support from Ann Werner, Winding Waters River Expeditions, anonymous private donors, and the Collins Foundation in helping to make this exhibit happen

Assignment photo for 1859 Magazine. Cropped version used a Cover Photo for the magazine.

Rafting Hells Canyon- Snake River.

A panomic view from Suicide Point in Hells Canyon.

Don’t forget to stop by the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture to get your copy of the Wilderness & Sublimity book for $62.00 or go to http://www.blurb.com/b/8073187-wilderness-sublimity for online purchases.

The Way They Lived: Nez Perce Art Exhibit

The Way They Lived:

The Wal-lum-wat-kin Band of Chute-pa-lu, or Nez Perces

Exhibit Running June 3-24, 2017

Known more popularly as the “Joseph” or “Wallowa” Band of the Nez Perce. This month we honor the Indians who lived here for millennia and their descendants. The exhibit includes historic photos from the Nez Perce National Historical Park, the University of Idaho Library’s digital photo collection, and the Wallowa History Center. Nez Perce historian and long-time tribal official, Allen Pinkham, Sr. will give words to the exhibit at its June 3 opening, and Brown Bags and workshops throughout the month will continue the celebration. The month concludes with display and sale of contemporary Indian art.

Saturday, June 3, 4:00 p.m. —The exhibit of historic photos in the Main Gallery opens.

7:00 p.m. — Allen Pinkham Sr. talk at Center: “The Way We Lived”

Tuesday, June 13, noon, Brown Bag: Roger Magee  “The Indian Flute”

Friday, June 16 – Sunday, June 18 –Cece Whitewolf workshop: “Tule and Cattail mats and Baskets”

Tuesday, June 20, noon, Brown Bag:  Nez Perce Fisheries “Lamprey Return”

Tuesday, June 20 – Thursday, June 22 –Workshop 4-6 p.m “Looming with Beads”

Tuesday, June 21, noon. Brown Bag: “The Plateau Indian Cradleboard”

Friday, June 23 – Exhibit comes down and Indian art for sale goes up

Saturday, June 24, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.  Contemporary Plateau Indian Art on display

The Wild Landscape of Eastern Oregon 2016

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

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Scroll below to view the winner!

Contact:  Cheryl North Coughlan  541-432-0505 or director@josephy.org

The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph, Oregon is honored to present our second annual juried, prized exhibit of “Wild Landscape” photography from Northeast Oregon (including Wallowa, Baker and Union counties). The opening reception is Saturday, August 6 at 7 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m. The exhibit will have 45 photographs by 14 photographers. This exhibit is the second of this theme, celebrating eastern Oregon’s wild landscapes. The judge is Dennis DeHart, Associate Professor of Photography with Washington State University. He will be speaking on Friday, August 5 at 7 p.m. for our ‘Live and Up Front’ artist lecture series.  Both events are free but donations are welcome.

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 share the diverse geography and natural beauty of this area through photography. Northeast Oregon is home to many highly talented photographers who explore its wild landscape.  Each photograph will demonstrate some feature 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 wild NE Oregon (Wallowa, Baker and Union Counties). Sharing the region through these photographs will allow a viewer to see the aesthetic quality and artistic skill that’s involved in capturing the area’s beauty in a wide array of geological settings: Hells Canyon National Recreational Area, Wallowa Lake, Zumwalt Prairie, Eagle Cap Wilderness, and the Wallowa Mountains. Prizes will be $750 for first place, $500 for second, $250 for third, and honorable mentions at $100 and a people’s choice award that will be voted on at the Opening Reception.

Narrowing the selections from the incredible variety and quality of entries proved to be a daunting task for our judge. Dennis reflects that his criteria in jurying the Wild Landscape photographs “included evaluating the quality of craft in terms of how the photographs were articulated. For example, the quality of the tones and color, understanding and use of light, and composition including framing, and picture design, all played roles in my reading of the images. Thoughtful statements about the work, including input about the photographer’s process, conceptual motivations, and other information that helped me to contextualize the photographs, also played a contributing factor. Evaluating photographs on a computer screen can be a tricky business in regards to visualizing how the final images play out in physical form.”

As a part of the wild landscape theme, the Josephy Center will be hosting a 5-week photography class with Ellen Bishop, beginning September 8 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 in the JCAC basement. Call to register – signup will be available online shortly.

We will also host two Tuesday afternoon “Brown Bag” discussions regarding the wild landscape, dates and speakers to be announced. The gallery hours are from 10 to 6 Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 on Saturday.

Dennis DeHart will be available for online portfolio reviews for $50 by appointment only from August 4-6. To arrange please call Cheryl or email her at director@josephy.org.

JUDGE – Dennis DeHart

Boat House by DeHart
Boat Houses by DeHart

Juror’s Statement:

My criteria in jurying Wild Landscapes included evaluating the quality of craft in terms of how the photographs were articulated. For example, the quality of the tones and color, understanding and use of light, and composition including framing, and picture design, all played in role in my reading of the images. Thoughtful statements about the work, including input about the photographer’s process, conceptual motivations, and other information that helped me to contextualize the photographs, also played a contributing factor. Evaluating photographs on a computer screen can be a tricky business in regards to visualizing how the final images play out in physical form.

DeHartDeHart bio:

Dennis DeHart’s fine art photographs and interdisciplinary projects are informed by the connections, conflicts, and intersections of the natural and cultural worlds. Dennis has exhibited broadly, including dozens of solo exhibitions, numerous on-line media and art contexts, and over 100 Group shows nationally and internationally. Dennis received his MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico in 2002. He previously served as an Assistant Professor of Photography with the State University of New York College at Buffalo and is an Associate Professor of Photography with Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. During the fall of 2016 and Spring and Summer of 2017, Dennis will travelling with his family to artist residencies throughout the world including in Malaysia, Thailand, the Netherlands, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. His artistic practice/research will focus on water rights, place, and cross-cultural exchange. You can learn more about Dennis: www.dennisdehart.com

2016 artwork and prizewinners

Wallowa Valley Photo Club Exhibit

Exhibit Reception – Sunday, November 15th from 2 -4 PM

They sell a yearly photography calendar showcasing Wallowa County. Click the image to buy the 2016 calendar from our gift shop!
They sell a yearly photography calendar showcasing Wallowa County. Click the image to buy the 2016 calendar from our online gift shop! Also available in-store at Josephy.

Please join us for our third annual Wallowa Valley Photo Club exhibit. This year’s theme is a showcase of club member’s best and favorite works over the years. Please join us for the reception that includes refreshments. The exhibit will be on display from November 13-November 30. There will be refreshments served.

This year’s theme is a showcase of the best work from members such as; Adele Buttolph, Jean Falbo, Ron Gray, Debbie Lind, Madison Falk, Marietta Herinckx, Marilyn Goebel, Linda Bauck, Trena Jones, Gail Hillock, Tamara Sanner and Larry Smith. Exhibitors selected their photos and shared them with fellow club members who helped critique the work. Please join us at the opening to vote for the People’s Choice Award and the event provides the opportunity to learn more about the photo club, meet fellow members and join the club.

Wallowa Valley Photo Club was organized in 1989 when local resident and photography instructor, Doris Woempner, suggested the idea of a club to her photography students. The following year students who had been working in a local darkroom produced The Club’s first black and white calendar. In the years following they produced a two-color calendar and then through the generosity of one member they were able to go full color. Vendors throughout the Wallowa Valley have calendars for sale for 2016.

Club member, Linda Bauck stated “throughout the year we offer classes, field trips, time for sharing, as well as supporting related events such as the Wallowa County Chieftain/Photo Club photo contest, the Wallowa County Fair, and entering images in exhibits at the Josephy Center throughout the year.”

The Wallowa Valley Photo Club is a nonprofit organization. Most members live in Wallowa County but as time has passed, we’ve added more members from out of the area. The common goal is they all love to photograph in Wallowa County.  The club’s mission is to promote the art of photography through education, events and the sharing of information and ideas. Membership reflects a full gamut of photographers, from beginners to professional.  One of the best traits about the club is, each club member shares their knowledge and experience to help fellow members reach their goals. They all share a love of the art of photography and a love of Wallowa County.

This is the third year Josephy Center for the Arts and Culture has hosted an exhibit of photography by club members. Our first show was a reflection of the results of our annual photo scavenger hunt, an activity that helps us develop skills and an eye for that photographic opportunity, our second show, in 2014 was focused on some of our best and this year, 2015, will be a showcase of some of our best images, plus a reflection on our challenges and technique development from a workshop in the summer led by club member, Barbara Parker.

Photo by Madison Falk from Juniper Jam