mannequins

"Artistic License" Mannequins /  by John Ritchie

The theme of this year’s Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild’s biennial exhibit is “Artistic License,” an open-ended topic that has brought out a lot of great photos by PAG members. I thought this was a perfect opportunity to display mannequin photos so I selected three of my favorites for the exhibit.

The exhibit runs from November 1st to December 18th with a reception on Saturday, November 4th from 5-7pm.

The LaSells Stewart Center is located on the OSU campus across from Reser Stadium.

Light Rider Studios Membership /  by John Ritchie

I’m pleased and excited to join Light Rider Studios, a local community photography studio. Light Rider, a creation of Koa Tom, promotes photographic creativity, supporting and blending digital and analog processes. Koa has tons of photographic experience, as well as having helped run a community studio in Seattle before coming to Corvallis. She has a great artistic eye and I’m looking forward to exciting collaborations with her.

I made this photograph in Light Rider Studios using an antique 5x7 enlarger as a prop.

I’m finally venturing back into film with the support of Light Rider’s darkroom and scanning equipment. I’ve been playing with an old Vivitar 35mm instamatic panorama camera to shoot a series of black-and-white double exposures that have been pretty exciting, and I’m experimenting with expired color film as part of a night photography project I’m working on.

If you live in the Corvallis area, come check out the studio and talk to Koa. I’m anticipating great things to come and you could be in on the collaborations too. Also check out Koa’s Instagram feed (and Light Rider’s).