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Photographers and Photography
Photograph 2025 copyright Michelle King - Once a year The Photo Exchange actually exchanges photographic prints, which we completed at our March 2025 meeting. The print exchange process is somewhat simple; you bring a print and at the end of the meeting, you take home a different print (see group photo, above). Nevertheless, we do... Continue Reading →
All photographs copyright Douglas Stockdale – Douglas Stockdale is one of the two photographic artists, along with Paul Anderson, who will exhibit in the Fragmented Realities show at OC Camera Gallery from March 19th through April 21st, 2025. This is an exhibition of two complementary bodies of art that investigates the contemporary urban landscape. Both are very divergent... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2025 Michael Graves – Artist Statement In my current photography project, Night Lights, I explore the interplay between natural twilight and artificial neon, capturing urban landscapes in the blue hour of the evening. My images are composed in a cinematic 16:9 format, drawing inspiration from Rembrandt’s use of chiaroscuro—deep shadows with a singular glow of... Continue Reading →
Fugue (for Orchestra in Flight) Number 11, copyright 2025 Rudy Vega - Fugue (for Orchestral Maneuvers in Flight) is a visual orchestration of movement, fragmentation, and time. Like a musical fugue, where a theme is introduced, echoed, inverted, and expanded, these works explore the interplay of structure and improvisation in the ephemeral choreography of birds in... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Paul Anderson Paul Anderson is one of the two photographic artists, along with Douglas Stockdale, who will exhibit in the Fragmented Realities show at OC Camera Gallery from March 19th through April 21st, 2025. This is an exhibition of two complementary bodies of art that investigates the contemporary urban landscape. Both are very... Continue Reading →
All Photographs copyright of Beatta Tuominen New Narrative: The Space in Between Artist Statement: My project is about being sandwiched between an end of the narrative I thought I was living and the new narrative I started to live. Two and a half years ago I chose to scrap the draft I was trying to... Continue Reading →
Evan Odom, member of the Photographers Exchange of Southern California, recently had a solo exhibition of his black and white photographs, Central Coast, at the F/30 Gallery at Palomar College (California). The exhibition was November 14th - 20th, 2024. The photographs were captured on two separate trips over the past year, and regarding this body... Continue Reading →
Diane Reeves, a long sustaining member of the Photographers Exchange of Southern California, being recognized with the Golden Circle Award by the City of Torrance (CA) Cultural Arts Commission at their Excellence in Arts Awards in October 2024. Diane: "I create art to answer a question I have or an idea that is plaguing me. ... Continue Reading →
The Photo Exchange had their 2024 Members Exhibition, their first group exhibition since the advent of COVID-19 at the OC Camera Gallery, Lake Forest, California, which was juried by Douglas Stockdale. They published an interesting exhibition catalog in conjunction with this event that documents all of the art and photographic work, that is arranged by... Continue Reading →
Last Saturday, October 12th, we had a wonderful artist reception for the 2024 Member's Exhibition for the Photographers Exchange of Southern California. As you might imagine, there were a lot of discussions about art, photography, techniques, this exhibition as well as life in general. It was a really nice evening event that was hosted by... Continue Reading →
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