In The Beginning

       
                                                    In The Beginning (photos)
       
        Three years ago today, June 13, 2009, LightBox opened it's doors to the public! Since that day over 450 photographers have shown prints on the walls of the gallery, we have had countless events, artist presentations, workshops, classes, openings, gatherings and members photo group meetings.
       The journey has been quite an adventure, and as any gallery owner can tell you, a lot of very hard work! Three years later we are still looking ahead and gathering momentum to make LightBox everything we hoped for in the beginning! Over the years from the day we took on the job of building the space to prepare for the grand opening on June 13th, 2009, we have invested everything we have, both sweat and cash into our dream of bringing a Photographic center and gallery to the NorthCoast of Oregon.
      
       Today we celebrate what is and it is with great pride that we thank you all for your interest over the years and for being followers of LightBox! Enjoy these photos that show our adventure from the day we took possession of the space to the day that we opened the door, these pictures show some very fond memories of the days when LightBox was just a dream and we went forward with the belief that you can "leap and the net will appear"! best, M&C

Plastic Fantastic Show III

Juror’s Statement

I am forever inspired and enthused by the ingenuity of artists who break the rules and make something undeniably their own by using the most basic of tools. Due to the technical limitations of toy camera photography, many photographers become content by merely recreating dreamy effects and a complementary mood. But artists who take it one step further, such as Matthew Cetta, S. Gayle Stevens, Erin Malone and Daniel Grant stand out from the crowd and should be applauded for creating wonderfully unique imagery with these simplistic, optically challenged cameras.

Being asked to juror the Plastic Fantastic contest for the second year in a row was a great honor. Thank you to Michael and Chelsea for entrusting me with this great privilege. I congratulate all of the selected exhibitors and applaud everyone who submitted.

-Susan Burnstine June 2012

First Place Award

Matthew Cetta’s first place image Ammonia from his series Photogenic Alchemy is a visual and technical delight. What may have been just an average image of the Brooklyn Bridge becomes something truly fabulous through his use of a microwave and alternative chemical treatments. He asked himself the most important question, “What if?” and created something truly fabulous.

Second Place Award

Second place winner, S. Gayle Stevens is a modern day alchemist who bends, breaks and redesigns the rules. She is one of the most imaginative practitioners in alternative photography and last year’s first place winner. Once again, she has offered us another unforgettable and haunting image with Emergence of Darkness.

Third Place Award

Erin Malone ‘s Something Still Remains Undone is a quiet, majestic and affecting image, elevated to magnificence via the photogravure process.

Honorable Mention

It’s not an easy task to create an effectively seductive image with a toy camera. But Daniel Grant’s knocked it out of the ballpark with his image, The Couch. As part of his series My Affair With Diana, The Couch leaves as much to the imagination as it reveals, making this a truly mysterious, alluring image.

Thank You to the photographers of Gravitational Pull


David Bram, 
Michael Itkoff, 
Ben Huff, 
Kathleen Robbins, 
curated by Jennifer Schwartz 




Complete Show images

The PDX Photo Month Exhibit

The PDX Photo Month exhibit has opened! All the photographers and the images are posted on the Showpage. We are looking forward to a great time at the astists' reception on Saturday, April 14, from 6-9pm. Thank you to all the Photographers who submitted work for this show!

The Photographic Nude 2012

All the images from The Photographic Nude 2012 are now on our showpage, with the award winners! Thanks to everyone who submitted and congrats! to all who were chosen for the exhibit, it was great to see so many of the photographers at the opening Saturday night! best, M&C

The Photographic Nude 2012

Congrats to the photographers accepted into The Photographic Nude 2012 exhibit, and thank you to all who submitted images to us for consideration. Thanks to Heidi Kirkpatrick for doing a fine job as juror for this exhibit, looking forward to seeing her and all of you at the Artist Reception on Saturday March 3, 5-9pm

“27 Mornings in Winter”

                 LightBox Photographic Gallery will host the opening of “27 Mornings in Winter”

                 with an artist reception on Saturday January 14^h, 2012, from 6-9pm. This

                 body of work is a series of Palladium prints produced from stills of a short film

                 by the artist, Douglas Ethridge, of Tahuya, Washington.

         

              “27 Mornings In Winter began as a short film, made to ward off those mid-winter blues by embracing each wet and gray day as an opportunity. As I was editing the film, I began to see unique moments within the dissolves of one scene to the next. In seeking to retain the contemplative nature of the film, I chose to render a selection of the resulting stills as hand-made palladium prints.”

                                                                                             Doug Ethridge

     The film “27 Mornings in Winter” will be shown in LightBox upper gallery during the opening, and will be featured on Sunday, January 15th at 1pm with a screening during an artist talk about the film, the series of palladium prints, and the process involved in the evolution of the entire body of work. The exhibit runs from January 14th^th – February 7th, 2012. Visit  The Showpage  for complete artist info and images.