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Check the PhotoZone Meeting educational events HERE. We have many educational events planned. All will take place after our meetings regularly scheduled on the third Sunday each month. Meetings are held at The Emerald Art Center, 500 Main street in Springfield. Meetings start at 1:00pm. Visitors are welcome. Please enter by the side door on 5th St. Special events usually start around 3:00pm. Note: the events page will open in a new tab.
PAO's Last Friday Photo Movie Night is starting up again this Friday, January 30th!
And, we have a New Venue: New Zone Gallery!
Join us atour new home, New Zone Gallery (corner of Oak and 11th Ave in Eugene)on Friday, January 30th,for the new year of Last Friday Photo Movie Night! Popcorn and lively conversation included! Admission is free - Donations gladly accepted to help defray the costs. We'd love to see you there!(Directions and address are below.)
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the features start at 7:00.
And, since our features this month are not long, we have a special short planned to kick things off!
This Month's Main Features: Portraiture
We have lined up two exciting shorter films exploring portraiture
(run time for both together, approx. 1 hr.)
The first is from Graeme Williams series of Photographic Converstations
Yousuf Karsh
In his time, Yousuf Karsh was the most sought-after portrait photographer around. Looking at his archive is like getting a history lesson on who the most famous people were – especially during the 1940s, 5os and 60s. He had over 15 000 sittings and produced 370 000 negatives. It’s difficult to gain an understanding of Yousuf Karsh and his work without contextualizing it within the time period in which he was working.
And then we move to contemporary times with an episode of Netflix's Abtract Design series about portrait photographer
Platon
In this episode, renowned portrait photographer Platon reveals his process of stripping away distractions to capture the raw, human soul of his subjects, using his deep empathy, and minimalist approach. Platon believes that connecting with people is more critical than technical gear. This video offers a glimpse into his process and philosophy. Often describes as a "must-watch" for photographers and creatives, it offers a "genuinely awe-inspiring" look at Platon's ability to find the human in the midst of fame and power. It is frequently cited as one of the best in the Netflix series for its emotional depth and practical advice on finding a unique, consistent artistic voice.
A shoot with Gen. Colin Powell provides a window into his process.
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Do join us at:New Zone Gallery - 110 E 11th Ave (corner of Oak St) in downtown Eugene
(It's easy to find and centrally-located!)
Last Friday, January 30th. Doors open at 6:30. Feature begins at 7:00
Popcorn provided and discussion encouraged!
Admission by free-will donation to help us defray costs - We look forward to seeing you there!
Darryl Baird - Continuum: A Retrospective Exhibit
February 6th through March 4th 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, February 6th from 5-6 p.m.
Artist's Talk: Sunday, February 15th at 2:30 p.m. at the
Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR
Dot Dotson's Gallery
1668 Willamette Ave.
Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 485-1771
Monday - Friday: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Renowned photographer Darryl Baird presents Continuum, a retrospective exhibit of his work from the last three decades. Included in the exhibit are photographs from his series Transcending Loss – (1995-97), Aqueous Humor (1997-98), Re-Picturing the Picturesque (2005-08), Post Mortem (2008-09), Pictorialist Drawing (2009-19), and Glass Worlds (2025-Present).
Darryl Baird: "I’ve been an ardent student of history all my life, but it was the history of photography that truly captured (for me) the essence of how history informs and directs our actions. My introduction to photo-history led me to find early photographers, and the periods that they were attached to, like Pictorialism, Modernism, and even Post-Modernism. As my research and reading of these periods continued, I felt the urge to explore them as a means of personal expression. Looking back at the images in this exhibition, I can see these early aesthetic patterns emerge, like chapters in a book… my book."
Originally from Dallas, Texas Darryl Baird has an over fifty-year career as a photographer and educator. His initial education was at the United States Naval School of Photography in Pensacola, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Broadcast-Film Arts from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
He worked for twenty years as a commercial architectural, advertising, and editorial photographer. He left the commercial field for graduate school, first in a doctoral program in Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and later earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of North Texas.
Darryl is an Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Michigan in Flint, where he created and taught graphic design and photography programs. He led the department as chair of the Communication and Visual Arts department for a critical transition into a combined discipline.
His work is included in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Houston Texas, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Since retiring in Oregon, he has been included in two exhibitions at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland (PNW Drawers), a solo exhibition at the Performing Art Center in Newport, Oregon, and awarded an artist residency at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area.
Submission Deadline
Thu, Feb 12 at 4:59 PM (PT)
Exhibition Launch
Thu, Mar 5, 2026
Celebrate water in all its moods and forms by submitting your work to The Water Show! From oceans and rivers to rain, ice, and everything in between, how does water shape the world around you? Dive in and show us what water looks like through your lens. This online show honors the original exhibition that took place in 1984.
We encourage you to submit up to three images of water by Thu, Feb 12 at 4:59 PM (PT). The show will be juried by Chris Rauschenberg and will be published on Thu, Mar 5, 2026. We look forward to seeing your submissions!
In October 1975, five unemployed but passionate photographers envisioned a $40/month, 125 sq ft storefront as a space to exhibit photography. 50 years and more than 1,000 solo exhibitions and 60 group shows later, Blue Sky Gallery is celebrating its legacy with a new online exhibition series: 12 themed online open calls, one for each month of our 50th anniversary year.
North Oregon Coast 3-day workshop on Long Exposure with Thibault Roland
May 16-18 2026
Between Astoria and Lincoln City
Price:
$1400 (returning participants and early birds)
$1500 (new participants and after 02/01)
$500 non-refundable at the time of registration
Thibault Roland is a recognized fine art photographer who specializes in seascapes, landscapes and architecture. He is a master of long exposure, infrared, tilt/shift and black and white photography.
Join him for a 3-day workshop May 16-18 to capture some of the most amazing landmarks in the area between Astoria and Lincoln City, OR. Among others, we will capture the Astoria Bridge and the breathtaking rock formations and seastacks of Cannon Beach, Cape Kiwanda, and Siletz Bay.
During this workshop you will learn long exposure, sharpen your photographic and visualization skills as well as learn some of his best editing tricks during the classroom session where we will also discuss how to improve your images by shooting with intent.
Group size: 6 maximum
Price:
$1400 (returning participants and early birds)
$1500 (new participants and after 02/01)
$500 non-refundable at the time of registration
Additional options available: 1-hr pre-workshop session, 1-hr follow-up session.
TO REGISTER: contact@thibaultroland.com
https://www.thibaultroland.com/Workshops/North-OR-Coast-Workshop-May-2026
Up the Down Escalator by Gabriel Francis at Franklin FOTO
January 2026 (on view for the full month)
Franklin FOTO
8953 N Lombard St,
Portland, OR 97203
Wednesday – Sunday, 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
https://www.franklinfoto.org/
Free
Up the Down Escalator is a street photography and handmade collage exhibition by Gabriel Francis, presented as Franklin FOTO’s January exhibition.
The work invites viewers to slow down, look closer, and reconsider what we define as beautiful by centering moments and individuals often overlooked or dismissed.Francis is drawn to struggle and resilience, and to the contrast between hardship and the strength people carry through it. Emotional, mental, physical, financial, and spiritual challenges are treated not as spectacle, but as shared human realities, approached with care, dignity, and respect.“These photographs are not meant to be sensational,” Francis notes. “They are meant to be seen without judgment or pity, and appreciated as reflections of our shared humanity.”
In early 2025, Francis expanded the project through a series of handmade collages that combine photographic prints with found and weathered materials. Inspired by boarded up buildings, notes left on walls and benches, and objects discovered on the ground, the collages create tactile environments for the photographs to exist within. Text and material fragments extend the work beyond documentation, allowing it to function as lived artifact.
Gabriel Francis is a photographer whose practice centers on human connection, public space, and emotional honesty. Grounded in curiosity and movement, his process is shaped by walking, riding public transit, talking with strangers, and sustained engagement with everyday environments. Through photography and mixed media, Francis explores the tension between light and dark, resilience and vulnerability, and the shared realities that bind us together.
Rich Bergeman - The Paleo Lakes Project
Jan. 9 - March 13
Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 9, 4-7pm
Gallery II
Umpqua Valley Arts Center
1624 W. Harvard Ave.
Roseburg, OR 97471
541-672-2532
Open Tuesday through Fri 10am-6pm
Hailstorm Over Christmas Lake
During the late Pleistocene—over 10,000 years ago—Eastern Oregon was covered by vast inland seas that, over the millennia, slowly dried up, leaving the arid steppe landscape we're familiar with today. The footprints those paleo lakes left behind—the dust-blown playas and shallow salty seas sprinkled across the High Desert—are what inspired this project.
History has always driven my work, but I usually focus on the human story, like the pioneer communities that sprang up or died out on the desert, depending on the availability or scarcity of water. This project is different. Here I'm looking back on a story that was centuries in the making, and it's not something I was able to see at first. It's taken years of seasonal forays into the High Desert to appreciate the spare elegance of its landscape, with its wide horizons and immense skies.
The challenge was to find a fresh way to share this story, and I found the answer in b+w infrared photography. Stripped of the color that can distract from form, and emboldened by IR's dark, brooding skies, the High Desert becomes a dramatic panorama where the forces of nature and time are more readily revealed.
Blue Sky is pleased to announce
January Exhibitions and Programs
First Thursday Opening: Jan 8, 5 - 8 PM
Constance Jaeggi, Angelina Sáenz and ire’ne lara silva
Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home
Jan 8 - 31, 2026
Sat, Jan 10, 2 PM
In-Person Artist Talk
Image © Constance Jaeggi
In Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home, artist Constance Jaeggi collaborates with award-winning Los Angeles poet Angelina Sáenz and Texas Poet Laureate ire’ne lara silva to offer a rare view into the world of escaramuza charra and the women behind the pageantry and costumes. This project reveals how escaramuzas claim space within the male-dominated world of charrería. Pairing intimate photographs of the escaramuzas with poetry and interviews, the exhibition provides a sensory feast for viewers that is lyrical and revealing.
Constance Jaeggi (Swiss, b. 1990, she/her) is a Swiss photographic artist based in Fort Worth, TX and Denver, CO. Jaeggi’s work focuses on the relationship between horse and human, in particular women. She uses horses as a backdrop for exploring themes of intimacy and identity, connection, and power dynamics.
Her work has been internationally exhibited and published. Her most recent project, Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home is a 2024 Lensculture Critics’ Choice Awards winner. She has had two solo shows at the National Cowgirl Museum in Fort Worth, TX and has been exhibited internationally in Belfast, Ireland, Rome and Venice, Italy and Zurich, Switzerland, and has been published notably by National Geographic, CNN Style, Guardian and The Washington Post.
Angelina Sáenz (she/her) is a Los Angeles–based Chicana writer, poet, and award-winning educator. She is a UCLA Writing Project Fellow, an alumna of the VONA/Voices Workshop for Writers of Color, and a Macondo Writers Workshop Fellow. She is the author of the poetry collections Maestra(FlowerSong Press, 2024) and Edgecliff (FlowerSong Press, 2021), as well as the children’s book Waiting for Luna. Sáenz is a featured poet and contributor to Escaramuza, a collaborative poetry and photography coffee-table book exploring the poetics of home, published by GOST Books (2025). Her poetry has appeared in Diálogo, Split This Rock, Out of Anonymity, Angels Flight Literary West, Every Other, Cockpit Revue Paris, and The Acentos Review. She was featured in a Poetry Folio in Poetry Magazine, published by the Poetry Foundation (April 2025).
ire’ne lara silva (she/her), 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, is the author of five poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI/House of Song, FirstPoems, and the eaters of flowers, which won Gold for the 2025 Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book (ILBA), a comic book, VENDAVAL, and two short story collections, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán, and the light of your body. ire’ne is the recipient of the ILBA 2025 Rising Stars Poetry Award, a 2025 Storyknife Writers Residency, the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction, a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant, a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award (2014), and was the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award.
Lauren Grabelle
Deer Diary
Jan 8 - 31, 2026
In-Person Artist Talk, Sat, Jan 10, 3:30 PM
Image © Lauren Grabelle
Lauren Grabelle’s Deer Diary explores where fine art, documentary practice, and wildlife photography meet in the Montana landscape. She uses a trail camera as a portal for spiritual self-portraiture, letting deer become collaborators through their movements. Positioned along game trails and bent fence lines, the camera captures these animals as they navigate their terrain, echoing narratives found in art, mythology, religion, and literature since Paleolithic times.
Lauren Grabelle (American, b. 1965, she/her) is an award-winning editorial and fine art photographer, and is known for her imagery celebrating the people, animals (both wild and domestic), and the incredible landscapes of Montana. Her work falls in the matrix where fine art and documentary meet and has been included in exhibitions in galleries and museums across the US and Europe, in two Montana Triennials, at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai, and most recently in a solo show at the Missoula Art Museum of her work, Deer Diary. In 2021 her series, The Last Man, was recognized by LensCulture as a winner in the international photo competition HOME '21, and then in 2022 as a Critical Mass TOP 50 winner. In 2022, as one of only 12 living photographers, Ken Burns included her photo, Tommy In His Car, in his book Our America: A Photographic History. Other projects and assignments have been featured in print and online in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, High Country News, Noema, Humble Arts Foundation, Der Grief, Lenscratch, and many others, as well as awarded inclusion in American Photography volumes 10, 17, 36, 39, & 41. She has also spent 12 days alone with her dog in the Great Bear Wilderness as part of an artist residency sponsored by the Glacier Art Museum, the Flathead National Forest, and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation. Lauren is an Adobe Stock Premium contributor and a member of the international organization Women Photograph.
Community Wall Feature
2025 Sitka Residency Artist: Conner Gordon
Jan 8 - 31, 2026
Conner Gordon (b. 1994, he/him) is an artist and educator exploring photography as unreliable narration. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, and he has received
awards including a 2025 Blue Sky Photography Residency at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecologyand a 2019 Fulbright Research Grant to Serbia. He has self-published four photography publications, including Where Does That Flower Bloom, a hand-bound photobook released in 2025. He received an MFA in Art from the University of Oregon and is a Lecturer in Photography at Washburn University in Topeka, KS.
PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW ARCHIVES
PhotoZone members Greg Giesy and Doremus Scudder are included in a long list of videos by by Hedda + John SD
Rudi Dietrich pictured below was one of the many artists sponsored by Photography at Oregon. He showed work at Dot Dotsons and gave a talk bout his work.
Click below and scroll down to find talks by Rudi and many others.
http://www.youtube.com/artsjournal/videos
artsjournal@yahoo.com - videos by Hedda + John SD
ARTS JOURNAL is on XFINITY CABLE 29 & 1088 Eugene & Springfield, Oregon Wednesday @ 4pm & Thursday @ 10pm
Photographer Stewart Harvey gave a Zoom talk for his previous show at the Emerald Art Center.
Burning Man
You can still view that on youtube by clicking here
Sponsored by Photography at Oregon.
Christopher Landis, Las Vegas Pandemic 2020
Presented by Photography At Oregon
This talk can also be viewed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tXJbTttrmZc
