Category: The Wild Landscape

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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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

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.

DeHart 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

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.