MITCH DOBROWNER
SUNSET OVER SERPENTS TAIL, PARIA PLATEAU, ARIZONA, 2008

Archival pigment print
10.5" x 16" image on 17” x 22" sheet

Mitch Dobrowner derives his inspiration from the natural world, and has photographed the landscapes of the Ameican West in the great tradition of previous masters who have captured it before him, in particular Ansel Adams and Minor White. There is a fine twist on the story though as Dobrowner has since 2009 teamed with professional storm chasers and the full glory and fury of a land energized by monsoons, tornados, and massive thunderstorms is revealed. Mitch Dobrowner is a PhotoAlliance 2014 lecturer.

TERRI WEIFENBACH
UNTITLED

from the Luna series

Chromogenic print
15-3/4" x 10-5/8" image on 20" x 16" sheet

Terri Weifenbach uses the richness of gardens and parks as the site for her landscape images. Personal in scale, yet grand in its vision, these prints render natural states that are splendid, evocative and sublime. Selective focus, saturated colors, and carefully chosen perspectives lend the work a stubborn kind of beauty.

THOMAS JACKSON
CUPS NO. 3, 2014

Archival pigment print
10" x 12-3/4" image on 11" x 14" sheet

Thomas Jackson’s work explores the tension between ourselves and the natural landscape. He addresses that theme by creating kinetic, site-responsive installations from mass-produced objects like plastic cups, cheese balls and hula hoops in an array of natural settings. Inspired by self-organizing systems in nature such as locust swarms and bird murmurations, each installation is an attempt to create something that is simultaneously in harmony and in conflict with its surroundings, mirroring our own struggle to achieve a sustainable equilibrium with the natural world. Thomas Jackson gave a lecture at PhotoAlliance in 2014 and was a PhotoAlliance Workshop Program instructor.

MICHAEL LUNDGREN
PLATONIC SOLID

Archival pigment print
14” x 17-1/2” image on 16 x 19-1/2” sheet
Special PhotoAlliance Edition of 5

Michael Lundgren spent his formative years roaming the woods and fields of upstate New York, receiving his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Pulled by the vast Western landscape, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona where he earned an MFA in studio art from Arizona State University. He continues to live and work in the West. As an artist, Lundgren draws on a deep current in photographic tradition that takes the natural world as a seat of transcendence. Lundgren works collaboratively with artists, scientists and writers on historically and socially engaged bodies of work, but his true passion is the poetic potential of the medium. Michael Lundgren is a PhotoAlliance 2017 lecturer.

ANNE BARNARD
REDBUDPOPPOP

Gouache, acrylic, ink and graphite on gliclée print
5” x 18-1/4” image on 8” x 17” sheet

Anne Barnard is an American artist who works with photography and mark making. She combines photogram, paint and drawing on photographs to explore the relationship among create, disintegrate, and chaos. Anne Barnard gave her lecture to PhotoAlliance in 2008.

LINDA CONNOR
BALANCED HORIZON, HAWAII, 1991

Archival digital print
7” x 8-3/4” image on 9 x 11” sheet

Linda Connor is a photographer and dedicated educator who, for the last five decades, approaches both roles by enlisting the power of images—the ways in which they communicate, their unique properties, and how they interrelate. Connor embraces a wide range of subject matter, connecting the physical and the spiritual world. Just as sacred art evokes deep meaning without always an explicit understanding, Connor hopes her photographs serve a similar metaphorical function. Her photographs also capture elements of tradition in everyday life; such as the purposeful way people arrange their surroundings or the power of light to transform a space. Amongst her images are prints she has made from nineteenth-century astronomical glass plate negatives from the Lick Observatory archive. These images inspire contemplation of the spiritual and the scientific, culture and nature, and wonderment and knowledge. In 2002, she founded PhotoAlliance, and currently serves as the creative director.

KEN GRAVES AND EVA LIPMAN
RESTRAINT AND DESIRE

Published by TBW Books, 2021
Hardcover, 39 duotone plates, 90 pages
ISBN 978-1-942953-46-3

READ MORE about Restraint and Desire and watch a candid, insightful video commentary on the book with PhotoAlliance speakers Vanessa Woods and Josh Smith with historian and Stanford Lecturer Kim Beil.