Photography

Photo First: Old Portland Hardware

In Sellwood, a hidden museum of a store displays a wealth of oddities, antiques, and historically significant salvage, meticulously restored and artfully curated.

It is all one: Joe Cantrell and Nancy Ives’s “Celilo Falls” project and the Oregon Symphony

The multimedia project – now in an expanded form with fresh orchestration, new photographs, and a plethora of Native American art and artifacts – comes to The Schnitz the first weekend of June.

‘Nostalgia Is So Yesterday’: David Hume Kennerly and Charles Jennings talk politics and their collaboration of photos and poetry

Cygnet Salon presents a one-night performance by Bruce Burkhartsmeier, David Meyers, Vana O’Brien, and Kathleen Worley on the work and friendship of the two men.

Footloose about the town: Classical Up Close hits its stride in a free concert series

For the 12th year, a merry band of roving Oregon Symphony musicians spills out of the concert hall and into churches, libraries, community centers and book stores, taking their music to the places where the people are.

McMinnville’s out-of-this-world parade

In 1950 a photo of a possible UFO hovering in the Yamhill County sky swept the nation. In the 21st century, space-visitor wannabes strut their stuff once a year in celebration.

The Cultural Landscape: Part 21

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of actor & acting teacher Brooke Totman, glass artist Andy Paiko, poet Jennifer Perrine, writer Ferris Jabr, and musician Naomi LaViolette.

Kristie Strasen: A world not of this world

In the studio with the textile artist as she creates "River Stories," an abstract "map" in yarn of the Columbia River, set to open in June at the Columbia Gorge Museum.

In forests, Liza Faktor finds inspiration and consolation

The photographer and curator, half a world away from her native Russia, explores a deep, ongoing relationship with wilderness.

The Cultural Landscape: National Poetry Month

Photographer K.B. Dixon captures the visual light of Oregon poets Judith Barrington, Brian S. Ellis, Genevieve DeGuzman, Carlos Reyes, and Valerie Witte.

Demons and twigs: The healing art of Debbie Baxter

The art of reclamation: A photographer builds nests of safety and solace. People who've been abused climb in, confront their demons, and emerge healthier and happier.

The Cultural Landscape: Part 20

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of choreographer Linda Austin, actor/director William (Bill) Earl Ray, visual artist Rebecca Boraz, novelist/translator Daniel Nieh, and Corrib Theatre artistic director Holly Griffith.

Dancing in the gaps: Vijay Gupta with 45th Parallel Universe

The violinist joined Pyxis Quartet for a concert centered on Osvaldo Golijov’s somber “Tenebrae”

Susan Seubert’s ‘Fragile Beauty’: Icebergs and the passage of time

The Portland photographer has led a dual career, traveling the world as a photojournalist and showing fine art in museums and galleries. At PDX Contemporary Art, her new iceberg show brings the two together.

Sharing stories and images of war-ravaged Ukraine

Ashland photographer Christopher Briscoe will talk of his experiences and his new book, "The Women of Ukraine," at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting March 18 in Medford.

As the U.S. tilts toward Putin, Ukrainians in Oregon play a different cultural tune

Marking the third year since the Russian invasion, supporters of Ukrainian sovereignty break out the music, flowers and flags of a long and proud cultural tradition.

Poetry from the people: Street Roots vendors create rhyme and reason

Street poets gather weekly at the "School in the Sky" to study poetry and create their own, some of which is on display in a words-and-art exhibit at Central Library.

Celebrating diversity in Hillsboro

In a time when cultural pluralism is under attack, groups in Washington County team up for an afternoon of connection and celebration through poetry, dance, music and food.

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.