March 2009: Melissa Rackham

Melissa Rackham received her MFA from the University of Memphis and recently moved back to Spokane. During her undergrad coursework she studied photography with Shelly Murney at Eastern Washington University. This exhibit is a collage of images from recent portfolios that are woven together around the idea of place.

Melissa will be teaching a non credit photography course at SFCC during the Spring 2009 quarter. This course will focus on alternative process techniques such as cyano and van dyke brown as well as combining digital photography with historic processes.

January 2009: Rodger Hartman

Faculty member Rodger Hartman is exhibiting a collection of his work along with images from his private collection including photographs by Christopher Burkett, George Lepp, and Jerry Uelsmann. Rodger has been teaching at SFCC for over 30 years and has a vast library of nature and landscape images.

He is currently working on a portfolio of Alaskan bear images that he will present later in the Spring.

October & November 2008: Ira Gardner

Gornergrat Glacier, Zermatt Switzerland 20x20 Print 2008

Faculty member Ira Gardner is exhibiting for the first time here at SFCC a show entitled "Places I have known" which is a collection of landscape photos taken recently in Switzerland and the Canadian Rockies. Ira started mountain climbing in the Canadian Rockies 20 years ago and now enjoys leisurely hikes with his wife and son.

The images were all photographed on traditional black and white film, scanned and and manipulated for tonal values, and then printed back onto traditional black and white silver paper.

September 2008: R.L. Dietz

R.L. Dietz is presenting a selection of new images from his project : "Uber-Wide Vision"

Pictured here is the home made camera and
and one R.L.'s circular prints. Note the size difference
between the 35mm roll of film and the yellow box of 5"x7" film

R.L. is exhibiting a collection of new landscape photographs. These circular photographs represent a full frame image taken on 5"x7" film with a camera he built himself. By combining a 50mm wide angle lens on a large sheet of film he is capturing all of the light that passes through the lens and in doing so is revealing the true nature of vision. Our eyes see a circle of light instead of the rectangular shapes we've grown accustomed to seeing in the photographic print.

R.L. reminds us how simple photography can be by building a home made light tight box and cutting out an opening for a lens. The scenes he captures may be familiar, but when presented in his wide angle circle format, we learn to appreciate the act of "seeing" all over again.

June 2008: Graduate Show

Photo of Angie Azar by: Caroline Hunton

This year's graduating class includes:
Caroline Hunton
Heather Freeman
Heather Etherton
Chris Thompson
Angie Azar
Tony Roche
Vanessa Hadford
Tyra Williams
Carlena Hockersmith
Sarah Lufkin
Gail Guy
Keyra Elder
Lawrence Long
Jesse Wanskasmith
Melissa Lindsey
Erica Martinez

Good Luck Class of 2008!

May 2008: Tony Roche

April 2008: Zachary Mazur

Chain Reaction: Circum-navigating the Hanford Nuclear Reservation
Zachary Mazur explores the social and environmental issues surrounding the Hanford Nuclear Reservation through a series of images taken as he travelled the 586 square mile perimeter.

Established as part of the Manhattan Project in 1943, Hanford is the largest nuclear waste facility in the Western Hemisphere. These photographs challenge our mythology of "Great American West" by juxtapositioning the beautiful visual aesthetic of the photographs with the knowledge that this is a toxic landscape that has become the world's largest environmental cleanup effort.

To see more of Zachary Mazur's work visit his website at www.photozam.com