Wishing all a Happy Holiday, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The LightBox Members holiday party last night was fabulous, it was great to see everyone and we missed those of you that could not make it! 
Love the LightBox community! Looking forward to a Great 2012!

              Members Exhibit 2011 -  November 12 - December 31st

            A BIG thanks and a congrats! to all the supporting members of LightBox Photographic for the spectacular collection of work in the Members Show 2011. We are so proud to be associated with you and could not continue with our mission without you. We are busy planning another year in 2012 of exhibits and events and members activities for you. Could not think of a better way to close out the year than to have all of you hanging on the walls at LightBox Photographic Gallery.

                                                                                                Michael and Chelsea

Spooky Film Fest! 

LightBox Photographic Gallery established the Spooky Show as a fun Astoria tradition. The exhibit is ongoing at the gallery and will close on November 8th. This year LightBox will be showing a series of Spooky films in the gallery theatre.
Showing on the nights of
October 28th, The Crazies (2009),
October 29th, Night of the Living Dead (1968),
October 30th, Dracula (1979) ,
and Halloween night the 31st, Trick r’ Treat (2008).
Films will begin at 7p.m. Seating limited to 25 people, 18 and over only. Films are totally Free with donations accepted, please call the gallery for info and reservations at 503-468-0238.

Please join us at LightBox for the 5th Annual Astoria Film Festival 

        Make your reservations now for the showings at LightBox, seating is limited 
           to 25 per showing.contact the gallery for reservations, 503-468-0238

October 20th, 7pm 
“Meek’s Cutoff” , based on the actual diaries of women crossing the Oregon Trail. Filmed a few miles from Burns and Hines in eastern Oregon.
October 21st, 7pm 
“Stuff”, filmed largely in Portland. The documentary focuses on the filmmaker’s odyssey following the loss of his parents.
October 22nd, 7pm 
“Hood to Coast”,  As the title implies, it looks at the iconic 197-mile relay race from Timberline Lodge to Seaside, the longest in the U.S.
October 23rd, 7pm 
“Cold Weather” plays Oct. 23, a thriller shot in Portland following a forensic science student’s hunt for his missing ex-girlfriend
October 24th, 7pm 
“The Best of the 37th-Annual Northwest Film and Video Festival” ,featuring the November 2010 event.

Last night's opening of the Spooky Show III was a blast, thanks to all the photographers who were here to share the fun with us!  Enjoy looking at all the images on our showpage, and link to the websites of the photographers and check out all their work. Let us know your favorite image for our people's choice award?

Announcing the Featured artist alongside the upcoming Spooky Show III 
"Last Ones Standing" - The Vanishing Scarecrows of Eastern Europe
Annette Fournet

Do you all follow LightBox On Facebook or Twitter, we post many updates and interesting links and tidbits there

Our warmest regards to Blue Mitchell for all his help and interest in LightBox Photographic Gallery, we have enjoyed each moment we have had with your amazing work on the walls, hope we get the opportunity to do it again one day, best, Michael and Chelsea

http://www.lightbox-photographic.com/shows/evanescent_energy

We just couldn't close out the PHOTO⊕CRAFT exhibit without a special thanks to Tami Bone, a Photographer with images of true beauty and imagination, and one of the nicest individuals we have the pleasure to associate with. This image "Ouiji" is part of a series called Mythos, which is her newest body of work. Thanks you Tami, it has been so nice to have your work back in the gallery for this show, Michael and Chelsea. Check out her full artist statement on our website, http://bit.ly/mTqHy1 and Check out all of Tami's work a@ http://tamibonephotographs.com/

Thank You Anne George for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show with this beautiful Photogravure entitled "Evangel reflected". Anne has been such a wonderful supporter of LightBox this year as we began to present work from some of the finest Photographic Artists in the country, we are indebted to her for her interest and for showing in 4 shows here this year, Dream Allegory, The Photographic Nude, PHOTO⊕CRAFT and the upcoming Spooky Show III. Please check out Anne and her work @http://www.anngeorgephotography.com/

Our friend Robert Adams has an amazing retrospective collection out. Visit the website, it has many great images and shares a chronology of his works and his life. Congrats and all the best Robert! BTW, it is available at Amazon only and a limited edition.http://amzn.to/pg0iUw

Robert Adams | The Place We Live | Yale University Art Gallery

artgallery.yale.edu

Thank You Susanna Gaunt for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show. Tonight we are hosting a pre-wedding reception at the gallery, what a perfect time to feature your piece, "The Wedding Gifts" Artist Statement
The Wedding Gifts is part of a series called Hidden Treasures. The idea for the series started with the book. My brother-in-law gave a chemistry book to my son at Christmas. When he opened it, instead of words, my son found a hidden compartment with small toys included. I loved the idea of a book being a vessel for hiding secret treasures. Why couldn’t the treasure be a photograph? Check out susanna's work @http://www.susannagaunt.com/

Thank You Rachel Wolf for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show.
The prints you create in the large life size are surely amazing. We appreciate the individuality and effort that goes your this work.

"The 99th Fable", a larger than life photogram novella. There is a feeling of magic, and perhaps a bit of soul within a finished photogram for me. Encompassing the essence of the subject within the variables unique to this application always brings forth in me a wondrous rush. Always an experiment with various shades of multiple lights, their angles and distances between the subject and the substrate... the textures formed from various paper stocks and transparencies.... the natural dances that liquids have with gravity and air when in the process of development"`Rachel Wolf… Original tale written by David Nielson.                                                                                              Check out rachel's work @   http://rachelwolf.com/

Thank You Heidi Kirkpatrick for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show.
 Heidi helped us by being in our opening show in June of 2009, it is great to have a good friend back in the gallery with a few pieces of her current works.                                                                                                  "I am in love with film. All of my work is made with film. I shoot on film. I print on film. I do all of my own work in my darkroom. I like it dripping off my elbows. I do not use a lot of fancy equipment. My “models” are the people who are closest to me, my family and friends. I love layering the film positives over anything and everything I can think of or find. My studio is filled with found objects that inspire me, and photographs, lots and lots of photographs.
I often use photographs to transform these found objects into pieces of art. Fusing transparent figurative and family portraits with children’s toys and blocks, boxes and tins, I create a playful tension between imagery and object. My work tries to breathe new life into these objects, yet they leave hints of the past in their lovingly worn appearances, the flecks of paint missing, soft corners, dents and dings". ~ Heidi Kirkpatrick -  Check out Heidis work @ http://heidikirkpatrick.com/             

Thank You Kirsten Hoving for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show. 
We enjoyed running across this image, "Return" in Shots magazine, "Although my work is quite varied, the constants across these portfolios are my interest in surreal, dream-like imagery, my search for telling moments and gestures, and my desire to push photography beyond recording and into expression".~ Kirsten Hoving Check out Kirstens work @ http://www.kirstenhovingphotographs.com/index.cfm

Thank You Emma Powell for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show. The Print "Juggling Butterflies" is a Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype, scanned and printed digitally. "Photographers, like scientists, record facts about the observable world. From those facts, they make inferences concerning larger questions of existence. But unlike scientists, artists are free to alter those facts to create imagined scenarios and fictional worlds. In my series Specimen Collection, I use the stuff of natural science—birds, butterflies, octopuses—to suggest a strange, shadowy world where things may not be as they seem. By using a nineteenth-century process, I reference the great era of natural philosophy when specimens were gathered from far and wide ...."
~ Emma Powell Check out Emma's work @http://www.emmapowellphotography.com/

Thank You Lori Vrba for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show.
The print "Old Maid " has received quite a response at the gallery,
and we appreciate the hand's on artistry in the darkroom.
"I work in medium format film exclusively. I do all processing, printing and toning in my home darkroom. I look for toning aesthetics that suit the overall project concept...in this case, I chose to split tone the work in sepia and selenium. When possible (for solo exhibitions) I look for alternative venues to create installations that suit the space, concept and imagery". ~ Lori Vrba
Check out Lori's work at http://www.lorivrba.com/

Thank you Nichole Dement for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show
In “Ties that Bind” the heavy black dripping wax above a man in a fetal position with a nest on his back speak to our need to support our environment because of our mutual fragility.
Film was scanned and printed large scale on rice paper with an intentional fractured aesthetic. Other elements have been collaged in such as ground particles of trash and red sinew to bind the work back together and add depth, both aesthetically and metaphorically.
Check out Nichole's http://www.nicholedement.com/

Thank you Anne Berry for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show,
your photography inspires us all to empathize with the emotional sensitivities of our fellow creatures among the animal kingdom. We love you for that at LightBox, as animal rights is perhaps our most dearest of concerns. Check out Annes wonderful work @http://anneberrystudio.com/

SPOOKY SHOW III

Thank you to everyone who submitted to and supported the Spooky Show III here at LightBox. The final selection of 50 images has been made, and the show is incredible. The show will open on October 8th, 2011 with an artists reception from 6-9p.m. Congratulations to those who had images selected, and thank you again to all those who contributed. We look forward to presenting a beautiful selection of "Images that create a sense of unease, while maintaining an element of beauty".

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