November 2009: Jamie Tucker

Jamie Tucker received her MFA in Photography from Indiana State University in 2006 and currently teaches at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa Idaho.

About the Prints:

All prints are Silver Gelatin, hand printed by the photographer on Ilford fiber and resin coated papers. The images were taken with Diana and Holga cameras using Ilford and Arista films in May 2008 and were printed in 2008-09. Most of the images are single exposures but for a few Jamie has made multiple exposures while onlyt advancing the film part way which creates a dreamlike quality.

Artist Statement:

Initially drawn to the beauty and mystery of place, travel is many times a part of my photographic interest. In this series I have combined place with the telling of story through image. Chinglish combines place with portraiture.

The English and de la Paz families welcomed my camera into their lives as they taught English in Xian and Beijing, China.

China is a place full of movement, mystery and tradition.

I am drawn to and love the way plastic toy cameras record life. These images are dreamlike and mysterious. They are felt, rather than viewed. Detailed precision is absent, while fuzzy recollections of pugnant aromas, curious textures and aching emotions are present.

These images are a testament to the reality of these people and places.

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.