DAVID GOLDES
BUBBLE, 2002

Gelatin silver print, printed by the artist. Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery.
11" x 14" sheet

Trained as a scientist at Harvard, David Goldes uses photography as a way to explore scientific phenomenon. In his close-up images of reflections, bubbles, fire, and electricity, which often call to mind scientific diagrams from earlier centuries, he finds joy and wonder in the mysteries of the physical world, presenting these simple concepts as vehicles for understanding perception, memory, and the process of discovery. In the series Traces, he explores object and memory by creating ghostly impressions of objects that directly reference the work of Paul Cézanne—still life arrangements of apples and pitchers rendered in transparent mesh material. David Goldes is a PhotoAlliance 2008 lecturer.

SAGE SOHIER
CAT IN DOLLHOUSE, SANDWICH, NH, 2004

Archival pigment print
10" x 12-1/2" image on 11” x 14" sheet

Sage Sohier's photography opens a window onto the marvelous, onto what Surrealist artist and author André Breton called “the fabric of adorable improbabilities:" a world of adult fairy tales in which “fear, the attraction of the unusual, chance, (and) the taste for things extravagant" appear in surprising forms. Sohier's encounter with the marvelous takes us deep into private terrain, into a world of near-obsessive collections, hobbies, adornments, achievements, and attentions to detail. Her images register a desire for control and perfection in a world that - more often than not of late - seems to have slipped into chaos, destined for political and environmental ruin. Sage Sohier is a PhotoAlliance 2013 lecturer.

ROBERT DAWSON
ATHENAEUM LIBRARY, ST. JOHNSBURY, VT, 2001

Archival pigment print
14" x 10-1/2" image on 13" x 19" sheet

This project is a photographic and historical survey of public libraries throughout the United States and resulted as the book The Public Library: A Photographic Essay. Over the last eighteen years Robert Dawson visited 48 states where he has documented hundreds of public libraries - some monumental and modest, from the reading room at the New York Public Library to Allensworth, California's one-room Tulare County Free Library, built by former slaves. Essays, letters and poetry by distinguished writers and librarians complete this tribute to a vibrant but threatened American institution. Robert Dawson is a PhotoAlliance workshop instructor and a PhotoAlliance 2022 Eco Art speaking artist.

JAMES HENKEL
GUILT, 2004

Archival pigment print
14-1/4” x 11-1/4” image on 17” x 13” sheet

Photographer James Henkel, originally from Miami, Florida, became interested in painting and drawing at the age of twelve. In college, Henkel took his first photography class, purchased his first camera, and realized the immense possibilities within the medium of photography. Throughout his childhood and well after high school, Henkel had some difficulty with reading. Creating artwork with books was a way for him to personalize and transform them into a visual experience. Earlier artwork using books was made by placing objects on them, which changed the context of the meaning. However, to rid himself of their perceived preciousness and the ingrained cultural respect for them, Henkel first submerged books in water and, eventually, sliced them with a band saw. These photographs sometimes address the form and authority associated with books, while others explore purely imaginative ideas for "new books." James Henkel is a PhotoAlliance 2012 lecturer.

BETH MOON
ODIN'S COVE #22

Archival pigment print
6-3/4" x 8-3/8" image on 8” x 10" sheet

Odin’s Cove is about a sense of place. It is a celebration of the beauty of nature in a visually stimulating landscape where untamed bramble and ivy suggest ancient origins. Where a regenerative view of the earth can be found, in the lush cliffs that gently slope to the sea, where music can be heard in the beating of a raven’s wing. This project evolved from a series of trips to a very special part of the California coastline where Moon developed what she can only call a friendship with a pair of ravens. Over a three year period she made many trips to this unique area and as her relationship with the ravens grew – they taught her many things about their lives and personalities. Part pirate, part prophet, makers of magic and mischief, their throaty calls can be heard echoing through these hills. This series portrays their trust in her, their loyalty to each other, the territory they rule, and their life in the wild. Beth Moon is a PhotoAlliance 2015 lecturer and a PhotoAlliance 2022 Eco Art speaking artist.

BIRNEY IMES
JOHN RUSKIN, CIGAR BOX, 1993

Archival pigment print
7-3/4" x 9-3/4" image on 11” x 12-1/5" sheet

Photographer Birney Imes documents the Mississippi Delta, and this series of photographs that he took at a roadhouse called The Whispering Pines shows one of the cigar boxes that the roadhouse owner, Blume Triplett, used to store items. Birney Imes is a PhotoAlliance 2016 lecturer.

REBECCA HORNE
DOUBLE SHADOW, 2013

Archival pigment print
16" x 20" sheet, edition of 15

Rebecca Horne is compelled by opposites: The contrast of flatness with the volumetric, fluidity with stillness, of science with the metaphysical. Another overarching theme in her work is slippage in scale—the supermassive to the intimate and hand held. Horne's photographs are cycles. Her photographs are performances. Her photographs are experiments. They start as drawings, and become temporary constructions before being photographed and becoming flat again. Rebecca Horne is a PhotoAlliance 2012 lecturer.

MARY DANIEL HOBSON
CADENCE, 1999

Archival digital print
6-7/8" x 8-1/4” image on 11” x 9-1/2” sheet

Mary Daniel Hobson is interested in what lies beneath the surface of the skin. It is not the physical structures that concern her – ligaments, organs, bones. Rather it is the emotions and experiences that are imprinted on the bodies – the places we travel, the music we listen to, the letters we read and write. Our past informs our cells. Mary Daniel Hobson is a PhotoAlliance 2003 lecturer.