Member Shows
PhotoZone Member Herman Krieger received an Honor award ($150) for a photo entered in the 2025 NCOA photo contest.
PhotoZone Member Gary Tepfer showing at White Lotus Gallery with Rich Bergeman
Gary Tepfer and Rich Bergeman: Desert Landscapes
April 25 - June 7, 2025
Reception + Gallery Talk on Saturday April 26, from 1-3pm
White Lotus Gallery
767 Willamette St
Eugene, OR 97401
Open Tuesday through Saturday 10am-4pm
“Steppe at Sagsay” by Gary Tepfer and “Summer Lake from Winter Ridge” by Rich Bergeman
Two veteran Oregon photographers--Gary Tepfer of Eugene and Rich Bergeman of Corvallis--are teaming up for an exhibit at White Lotus titled “From Steppe to Steppe,” featuring color and black-and-white photographs of arid territories from Oregon's High Desert to Asia's Altai Mountains.
Both photographers, working independently, have been exploring desert environments for decades, and while they share a love for the spare elegance of the land, their interpretation of that land offers viewers some engaging contrasts.
Tepfer is known for his striking color images from the American Southwest, Eastern Oregon and the steppes of Mongolia and Siberia, regions he has visited many times over the past four decades. “I want to capture that aspect of the natural world that stands apart from human existence,” Tepfer says. “But the locations to which I am drawn are often the same places that are the most rich in the ritual artifacts of ancient peoples.”
Bergeman, on the other hand, is a black-and-white photographer whose most recent work has focused on that portion of the Great Basin that lies within Oregon, especially remnants of the paleolakes that dot the region.
“I've always wondered about all those 'lakes' I'd see marked on maps that didn't really exist as bodies of water,” he says. “A little research taught me they were footprints of the great inland seas that once covered the area 10,000 years ago. Intrigued, I began to search for them and find ways to dramatize this curious evidence of the past.”
Both photographers have work in several private and public collections and over the years have been published in books and periodicals.
Tepfer's photography can be seen at http://gtepfer.com/ and Bergeman's at richbergeman.zenfolio.com and blurb.com.
PhotoZone Members Steve Mangold and Sandy Brown Jensen will be in the Eugene Airport show
The show will be up from April 16 - July 8
Steve Mangold
Angel of Storms - By Sandy Brown Jensen
PhotoZone member David Simone – has one piece accepted in an OSU touring exhibition
Art About Agriculture
Opening Reception at the Giustina Gallery in Corvalis, OR.
May 5, 5-7:30pm
History on a repaved street
PhotoZone Member Sarah Grew at Maude Kerns
Beyond the Print, featuring the work of Mika Aono, Tallmadge Doyle, Sarah Grew, Julia Oldham, and Libby Wadsworth, opens with a public reception on Friday, April 4 5-7pm, and is on view through May 2. The five local artists in “Beyond the Print” each have their unique approach to printmaking, using innovative materials and techniques. They share a common concern for and engagement with a landscape facing ecological collapse because of climate change.
There will also be an Artist Talk Saturday, April 19, 2-3pm with the featured artists who will discuss their work and answer audience questions about these artists' approach to printmaking.
PhotoZone member Linda Devenow
In two Local Shows at the same time
Check out the images on the OBrien Gallery Site.
To see them without reflections attend in person. 2833 Willamette, Ste. B
Open weekdays 1-5
PhotoZone Members Herman Krieger, Sandy and Walt O’Brien have photos at The Giustina Gallery at The Lasells Stewart Center in Corvallis.
For its 13th biennial exhibit at the LaSells Stewart Center, members of the PhotoArts Guild were asked to respond to the theme, “InSight,” suggesting not only what is in a photographer's field of vision, but also what lies more deeply behind the scenes. The result is a wide-ranging display of more than 60 color and black-and-white prints by 27 local photographers on all manner of subjects, from landscapes and portraits to abstracts.
This year's show is dedicated to the memory of Lorraine Richey, a long-time guild member who lost a long battle with cancer last fall. A graduate of Oregon State University and a resident of Portland, Richey was an inspirational photographer who moved fluidly among genres during her 40-year photographic career. She is best known for her multi-layered abstractions created with her I-phone, several examples of which are in this exhibit.
The PhotoArts Guild was formed 40 years ago to promote and support fine art photography in the mid-valley and has been an affiliated guild of the Corvallis Art Center since 1988. The group has evolved over the decades from one focused primarily on large-format film photography to one populated mostly by digital camera artists pursuing non-commercial forms of the medium--landscape, wildlife, portrait, fine art, nature and more.