The Decisive Moment – PhotoPlace Gallery
I’m very excited to share that Aline Smithson, the founder of Lenscratch and a well respected photographer and teacher, selected my image, Hands, as part of The Decisive Moment gallery exhibit at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont from September 7 – September 27, 2023.
Hands is part of my ongoing series Enchanting Propaganda that takes a critical look at retail culture.
The Curated Fridge – Summer 2023
I’m showing one of my images with the cool kids on a fridge this summer! You read that right…a photo show on a fridge… limited space and small prints make it a really fun and varied exhibition. My image, Diamond Head Sunbathers, part of GREETINGS from The STATE of ALOHA, was selected by Orestes Gonzalez, the resident curator at CultureLab LIC to be included with the work of many other talented photographers.
To see my work and that of the other talented photographers selected visit The Curated Fridge website.
20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
Individual Images
The 20th annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award is open to both professional and amateur women photographers worldwide.
This year jurors, Elizabeth Avedon (Chair), Ann Jastrab, and Elizabeth Krist selected my image “Aloha Attire” as the single image winner in the Non Professional Culture & Daily Life category. Two other images from the ongoing HIdealized series were awarded honorable mention status in the same category.
Winner – Aloha Attire
Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention
Series
My series from the Enchanting Propaganda portfolio was also awarded honorable mention in the Non Professional Culture & Daily Life category.
Zines!
Earlier this year I began teaching myself how to make hand bound books – they are time consuming to create and often expensive to produce but I have created a number or samples and know that in time the right form and the right group of images will come together to become a beautiful book. I recently joined a group of local photographers who had committed to creating and selling zines of their work and it is a wonderful opportunity to get to work!
Hoʻokupu
The images for Hoʻokupu were printed at a local printer and I hand-stitched them together with a custom cover and added a deckled belly band with a hand stenciled title. There were a few bumps along the road to the final product but in the end it was a joy to create. The photographs are from drawn from Hoʻokupu portfolio which holds a special place in my heart. Ask me sometime and I’ll tell you why that is…
Specifications:
5 1/2 inches square
Monochrome
24 pages, hand bound with a belly band closure
15 images
Price $15
Only 10 copies of Ho’okupu will be available!
No Outlet
I began work on what has become No Outlet a few years ago when I hand stitched together a book dummy from images that I printed on cardstock on my home printer. It was pretty lo-fi and needed a lot editing but it was a start, a rough one, but a start nonetheless. I set it aside and recently pulled it out again and began to rework it into the zine you see below.
Specifications:
6 by 6 inches square
Full color
24 pages, perfect bound
18 images
Price $15
Only 10 copies of No Outlet will be available!
Documentary Photography In Hawaii 2023
I’m very flattered that four of my photographs (below) were selected by juror PF Bentley, a former TIME Magazine photojournalist, for inclusion in the inaugural Documentary Photography 2023 Juried Exhibition.
These images are new additions to my ongoing GREETINGS from the STATE of ALOHA series.
