A 4 a.m. Piece in "Chase The Light"

Last weekend was the Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW)'s "Chase the Light" exhibition/fundraiser. People around the world submitted images they made over a 48 hour period in early June.

Notice the image on the right: that's mine! And it sold!

I went out and made some photos during the 4 a.m. hour in that 48 hour window, and they accepted this image of mine from along the Mississippi River:

Here's how it appeared on their website before it sold:

I actually went looking for my image in the fundraiser thinking I might purchase it myself, but I happily found it had already sold. Thanks for including me, Photographic Center Northwest!

I was also a part of this event/exhibition last year: I had submitted a few images from the 4 a.m. hour of images from after the riots in Minneapolis and from around the George Floyd memorial.

Departmental Move

As an adjunct, I get moved around a lot. After the College of Visual Arts closed 8 years ago, I've been jumping around offices at Hamline University. But now, the Digital Media Arts Department is moving buildings, so it's time once again for me to clean out my office.

The hallway was filling up with trash and recycling as my colleagues were cleaning out their offices.


My personal corner of my old office.


Some 2-year-old pictures of my boys that had to come down.


My side of the office all cleaned out.


The other side of my shared office about 2/3s clean. She had a LOT of stuff - those shelves were all once full.


Peeking into the office I moved out of 2 years ago showed my recycling
hadn't been touched. I moved out of an office to let it sit empty. Oh well.

So I'm out of my 5th office at Hamline waiting on what my 6th will be.

I'm curious what our new space(s) will look like! My last classroom wasn't ideal for every DMA class, but it worked well for my photography courses. We'll see what the future holds!

Today

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

- Susan Sontag (in 1977)

Funny Photography T-Shirts

Here are some great photography-based tshirt from Luta:

Close-up of the last one.