Showing posts with label black and white photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black and white photography. Show all posts

Travel To Japan With Dan Chairs at Umpqua Bank in February

For the month of February, Umpqua Bank is hosting the work of Dan MacDonald, a Seattle based photographer. Utilizing a mix of analog and digital photography he enjoys documenting the world around him and loves to seek out the overlooked.  




This series of photos is from his trip to Japan summer of 2013 where he roamed around the southern part of the country for a couple weeks.

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Umpqua Bank
2032 NW Market St

Horses by Janet Mesic Mackie Showing At Horseshoe For January Artwalk

As so well put by Juliet Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, "If you love horses, you will love her photographs. Her horses are immediate, personal and lovable. You'll feel you are there, stroking a velvety nose."

As a professional photographer for over 20 years, Janet Mesic Mackie has honed a vision and a body of work that is informed by her love of composition, light, form and her training as a visual artist.



"In recent years, my work has moved in a direction that emphasizes the beauty of form found all around us.  From landscapes to portraits to images of horses, I look to capture the essence and vitality in the natural world."

As an editorial photographer, Mesic Mackie's work has appeared in  Elle Decor, Veranda, Metropolitan Home, Midwest Living, and Traditional Home, among others. She has worked with many of the country's top interior designers and architects and is published in numerous interior design and architecture books. Janet Mesic Mackie has a Bachelors of Arts in Printmaking from the University of Oregon and she resides in Chicago, Illinois with her family.

Horseshoe
5344 Ballard Ave NW

Umpqua Bank Presents Misleading Maxims For December Artwalk

In the month of December, Umpqua Bank is showing the work of photographer Laura Gehring. This show is titled "Misleading Maxims", exploring caricatures of the 1930’s, inviting comparison to times of loss, distrust, tumult, and uncertainty.  Each character’s story of loss, gain, or greed brings forth a projection of history onto today’s ideologies, unearthing contemporary affects in the process. The melting pot that is America is able to obtain a rendering of the highly sought after “American Dream,” yet within the realities of past and present it proves to be fleeting.




Growing up in rural Idaho with the urge to document the small town culture, beauty of the prairie, and mountain life, Laura followed in her grandfather's footsteps as a photojournalist. After moving to Seattle 4 years ago, she needed to find her own voice in storytelling. Moving into the fashion industry, she was able to tell any story through light, set, and mood. Now she uses that same aesthetic to work closely with clients to learn their story and produce imagery that clearly defines their business as a whole.

Umpqua Bank
2032 NW Market St

Photography by Abby Inpanbutr at The BalMar in July

As a photographer, I work primarily in film, and my particular favorite is large format black and white photography.




Large format work is rewarding due to its technical challenges, methodical and meditative nature, and physical process.  It is also the basis of documentary and archival photography.  I was fortunate to learn large format photography while studying architecture at the University of Washington, and have not been able to stop doing it since.  The tangibility of film and the darkroom is for me a means and metaphor.

  Living in Ballard gives me the opportunity to observe the maritime landscape on a daily basis, and I am fascinated by the wealth of history here.  As a transplant from central Illinois, this world is entirely new to me.  The waterfront and its structures is one of my favorite subjects to photograph.  

The images shown in this series, Persistent Work, were taken as part of a 4culture funded project to document the maritime industrial heritage of Lake Union and Salmon Bay.  The project focused on three enduring maritime businesses: George Broom’s Sons, Pacific Fishermen Shipyard, and Jensen’s Motorboat Company.  Along with the photographs, oral histories were collected by historian Shelly Leavens.  The project was previously exhibited at the Center for Wooden Boats on South Lake Union.  The project is now in its second phase, and the negatives and histories will be donated to a public archive upon completion. 



The BalMar
5449 Ballard Avenue NW
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