A color photograph depiciting a view of a waterfront between two houses. The house on the left has a screen door standing open as well as a short clothes line in front of it with a piece of clothing blowing in the wind., Neighbors in the Season, Deborah DeWit was born in 1956 in Portland. Oregon. Four weeks after her birth, her mother returned with her to South America to re-join the rest of the family. She grew up traveling with her family and living in such places as the Philippines, New York, Minnesota, South Carolina, Florida, El Salvador, Colorado, Scotland and finally ended up in Portland in 1979. Photography was never a career choice and she entered Cornell University as an Agronomy major. After two years she decided to give her hobby, photography, more serious attention and moved to Colorado where her parents were living at the time. In order to finance her endeavors, she cheffed in restaurants for two years and in her spare time roamed the mountains outside Denver looking and experimenting with her camera. In 1978 she left for Scotland, where she worked on a farm, driving tractors, hoeing turnips and moving cattle from field to field. It was here that her real passion developed. The skies and the hills and the wildnes, Deborahdewitmarchant@verizon.net, http://www.dewit-marchant.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A handcolored black-and-white photograph depicting a section of water surrounded by rocks. There are several lenghts of white driftwood floating on the water surface., Bones; hand tinted photo, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A black-and-white photograph depicting what may be a waterfall. A black tree stands in front of a section of indiscernable white substance, possibly snow., Elowah Falls, Stu Levy photographs the surreal in nature. He not only photographs what his subject is, but he photographs "what else" his subject is (Unknown, 1991)., http://www.seeinglight.com/stulevy.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A black-and-white photograph depicting a scarved woman holding a baby out in front of her and above her head. The woman smiles at the child while the child faces the camera., Russian Mother + her Child - Old Believers, Carrasco has photographed in Oregon, Mexico and Europe; she has photographed Chicano, Indian and Russian families. She was the editor of a US government newspaper for migrant farmworkers, many of whom were Mexicans, in Oregon. She felt very strongly about the conditions of the farmworkers and when words became insufficient to convey her feelings she began to take pictures. (from Oregon Arts Commission Collection materials, 1975), http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/SEEFA/Vol_X_No_2_2005_page76.pdf, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A black-and-white photograph depicting a black mound with black trees in the center underneath a sky filled with cirrocumulus floccus cloud formations., Sunrise; 22 x 28 inches, Claire Trotter is a native of the Pacific Northwest and livesin Eugene, Oregon. She acquired her basic skills in photography while apprenticed to a commercial photographer in Chicago. Her photographs are a kind of visual haiku. In a simple statement these pictures can suggest realities beond ordinary perception. Her subject is usually nature, celebrating natural light and shadow on rocks, reeds, sand, driftwood, ice, leaves, things we usually pass without seeing. She Works mainly in black and white, using Linhof, Leica and Alpa cameras, and is intensely involved in the entire photographic process from compostion through printing. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe, has been published in hournals devoted to the arts, and is represented in both public and private collections. (attributed to Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, date unknown--from materials in project binder), The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A color photograph of a fenced corridor on a beach leading to an indiscernable structure before a hazy coastline., Summer's Over, Deborah DeWit was born in 1956 in Portland. Oregon. Four weeks after her birth, her mother returned with her to South America to re-join the rest of the family. She grew up traveling with her family and living in such places as the Philippines, New York, Minnesota, South Carolina, Florida, El Salvador, Colorado, Scotland and finally ended up in Portland in 1979. Photography was never a career choice and she entered Cornell University as an Agronomy major. After two years she decided to give her hobby, photography, more serious attention and moved to Colorado where her parents were living at the time. In order to finance her endeavors, she cheffed in restaurants for two years and in her spare time roamed the mountains outside Denver looking and experimenting with her camera. In 1978 she left for Scotland, where she worked on a farm, driving tractors, hoeing turnips and moving cattle from field to field. It was here that her real passion developed. The skies and the hills and the wildnes, Deborahdewitmarchant@verizon.net, http://www.dewit-marchant.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A black-and-white photograph depicting a man riding a bull while a group of other men stand and lean against a fence watching the action., Bull Riders; Redmond OR, http://www.bkpix.com/writing/bauguess.php, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A color photograph depicting a view from behind a red bench, in front of a concrete wall that separates it from the beach., Tonic for the Soul; color photograph, Deborah DeWit was born in 1956 in Portland. Oregon. Four weeks after her birth, her mother returned with her to South America to re-join the rest of the family. She grew up traveling with her family and living in such places as the Philippines, New York, Minnesota, South Carolina, Florida, El Salvador, Colorado, Scotland and finally ended up in Portland in 1979. Photography was never a career choice and she entered Cornell University as an Agronomy major. After two years she decided to give her hobby, photography, more serious attention and moved to Colorado where her parents were living at the time. In order to finance her endeavors, she cheffed in restaurants for two years and in her spare time roamed the mountains outside Denver looking and experimenting with her camera. In 1978 she left for Scotland, where she worked on a farm, driving tractors, hoeing turnips and moving cattle from field to field. It was here that her real passion developed. The skies and the hills and the wildnes, Deborahdewitmarchant@verizon.net, http://www.dewit-marchant.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
