Photography

The Cultural Landscape: Part 19

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of theater director Brian Weaver, writer & filmmaker Perrin Kerns, writer & editor Rajesh K. Reddy, visual artist Jo Hamilton, and architectural preservationist William (Bill) Hawkins III.

Photo essay: A juror’s-eye view of Portland that not many people get a chance to see

If the court system is a foundation for a civil society, it seems fitting to explore the building blocks and high-rise vistas of a city while serving as a juror.

‘I Lived to Tell the World’: The Immigrant Story’s exhibit at Oregon State University’s PRAx shares the experiences of genocide survivors who live in Oregon

The exhibit, which opens Jan. 27, spotlights “the held and felt and experienced stories of our neighbors” through live performances, discussion, and photography.

The Cultural Landscape: Part 18

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of poet and memoirist Judith Barrington, theater leader Harrison Butler, painter Phyllis Trowbridge, jazz musician Ryan Meagher, and Literary Arts leader Amanda Bullock.

The many faces of Monica Ohuchi: A photo essay

The pianist and Fear No Music executive director performed Caroline Shaw's "Gustave le Grey" at FNM's recent "Sounds Like Home" concert.

Jason Hill’s superheroes of Afrofuturism

The Portland photographer's vibrant portraits of Oregon Black "superheroes" fill two galleries at Salem's Bush Barn Art Center and Bush Barn Museum and a third at Portland Center Stage.

Cruising the city for ghouls and ghosts

Come Halloween season, Portland yards and front steps become a sprawling gallery of things dead and undead. Photographer K.B. Dixon tours the neighborhoods to collect the evidence.

(Double) Exposed to the Elements

Mike Vos discusses the journeys and breakthroughs leading to his new photography book, "Somewhere in Another Place."

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s sculpted screams

Trick and treat: Once the sculptor to Vienna's royal family, the 18th century artist's life and work took a turn to the macabre. For this tortured yet talented soul, every day became Halloween.

Splish-splash: Giant pumpkins on the lake

At the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta in Tualatin, the gargantuan gourds glide across the water like bloated kayaks as the crowd cheers onshore. Who says veggies can't be fun?

A boy, a deer, and a world of magic

Salem artist Randall Tosh's dreamlike photographs, springing from a memorable boyhood encounter in the woods, pierce the veil between the known and the unknown.

The Cultural Landscape: Part 17

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of animator & filmmaker Rose Bond, painter Chris Russell, composer Judy A. Rose, Mother Foucault’s Bookshop founder Craig Florence, and writer & editor Rachel King.

Four years after, a slow revival takes root along the Santiam Canyon

Returning to the towns and forest devastated in 2020's wildfires, writer and photographer Dee Moore discovers new growth, rebuilt communities, and continuing evidence of the disaster.

Cat With Nine Still Lives

Photographer K.B. Dixon poses a wooden English cat, "rescued" from The Shambles in York, in a multiple lifetimes' worth of catlike poses. Cat fanciers might find all of them familiar.

‘Long Summer Days’: Nolan Streitberger documents his daughter’s life in exhibit at The Arts Center in Corvallis

A job layoff inspired the Albany man to get back to photography. He found a subject in his daughter's childhood.

Arf! Celebrating the dog day of August

Time out for canines: August 26 is National Dog Day, and Portland pawses to pay homage to its own. K.B. Dixon and his camera scour the city to seek out our best friends in action.

The Cultural Landscape: Part 16

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of choreographer Jessica Wallenfels, visual artist Ryan Pierce, poet and book editor Valerie Witte, actor/director Isaac Lamb, and choral leader Katherine Fitzgibbon.

‘Exposed Transmissions’: Honoring the journalistic legacy of Issam Abdallah

"There is joy in these pictures": An exhibition at The Reser in Beaverton highlights the brilliant, humanistic war zone photos of a journalist killed by tank fire in Lebanon in 2023.

The Photographer’s Notes: A magic trick

How to make an image that rises above the ordinary? It's simple – and complicated, K.B. Dixon declares.

‘Tree People’: The life and lore of the forest

Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo create a stellar thicket of visual and environmental images on view at Portland's World Forestry Center.

Waterfront Blues Fest: That’s a wrap

Portland's four-day blues bash at Tom McCall Waterfront Park beats the heat -- and photographer Joe Cantrell catches the sights and sounds and free-flowing joy of it all.

A blues explosion on the 4th of July

On the opening day of the Waterfront Blues Festival, photographer Joe Cantrell captures the sights and sounds from the stages to the crowd to the fireworks.

Between Two Worlds: Leonora Carrington and David Seymour (Chim) at the Oregon Jewish Museum

Exhibits of a major Surrealist artist getting her due and a photographer known for his images of children amid war give rise to a host of cultural connections.

National Camera Day: It’s a snap

All right, much more than a snap. Photography is history and documentation, truth and illusion, high art and a creative tool for everyone. Celebrate its day on June 29.

Photo First: Milk Carton Boat Race

K.B. Dixon and his camera take in the wetness and the glory of Sunday's splashy race, a Rose Festival favorite since 1973.

Discovering the Portland Puppet Museum

Half-hidden behind trees in an 1880s Sellwood former grocery building, the museum is one of the few in the nation dedicated to preserving the art, history, and pleasures of all things puppetry.

Gordon’s Fireplace Shop: Questions

Eyesore or art? Landmark or blight? Photographer K.B. Dixon gets up close with the paintings and graffiti scrawls on an abandoned building that Portland's City Council has voted to foreclose on.

Hillsboro Pride Party: A rainbow rises

During Pride Month, Oregon's fifth largest city celebrates openness and diversity amid recognition that the quest to overcome fear and repression is far from over.

Spread Peace: Yoko Ono’s installation at Portland Japanese Garden

For four days, the Portland garden joins others around the world in the artist and peace activist's almost 30-year project of creating and adorning Wish Trees in pursuit of peace.

The Cultural Landscape: Part 15

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of visual artist Chris Chandler, Miller Foundation leader Carrie Hoops, Caldera leader Kimberly Howard Wade, and writers Evan Morgan Williams and Steven L. Moore.