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March 3, 2025 — June 30, 2025
Women's Reproductive Rights Held Hostage — Todd Bradley
The Photographer's Eye Collective presents "Living and Photographing in an Imperfect Union," a juried online exhibition featuring over 40 works exploring contemporary American life. Using techniques from pinhole to digital composites, artists address democracy, social justice, environmental concerns, and personal freedom. Highlights include Louise Russell's pinhole images of the San Diego River, Julia Comita's "Freedom Project" on constitutional rights, and Todd Bradley's examination of homelessness and reproductive rights.
Arthur Ollman has been a photographer for 55 years, with more than 25 one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. His work is held in many prestigious museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), and Fogg Art Museum (Harvard). Between 1977 and 1983 he was Chairman of the Board of San Francisco Camerawork. In 1983, Ollman became the founding Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, serving there for 23 years and curating more than 100 exhibitions. He built a museum collection of more than 6,000 objects and a library of 25,000 books.
From 2006-2011 he directed The School of Art and Design at San Diego State University, and in 2020 was named Professor Emeritus. He was Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography based in Lausanne, Paris and Minneapolis from 2013-2019. Ollman continues to photograph, curate exhibitions, and write. His recent traveling exhibitions include Vik Muniz and Hard Truths: Five Photojournalists from the New York Times. He has written all or parts of 25 books and museum catalogs, and lectures and teaches workshops internationally.
"There are so many ways to use metaphors, and some photographers found them. I was very pleased with the Tabor and Tang Liu entries. A great way to deal with the separations from others that we are experiencing….because of fear of one kind or another. Baca looked at the "edges" of our "civilization", where the natural gives way to the synthetic….the interstices spaces. Gibson, by using infrared gives things that irradiated nuclear winter feeling, while still everything is so heavenly beautiful. And Russell by using tripod, pinhole and scanner and photoshop has created a hybrid of processes and thus appearances. Then by employing the old romantic, classic viewpoint and pristine place selections she also gives us a fall from grace interruption of unlovely human intrusions. Identifying mundane places in ways that identify issues is a way to show a subtler and in-the-end more meaningful statement."
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Donna Cosentino
In a life dedicated to photography since 1971, Donna Cosentino has been a news photographer, museum docent, curator, educator, and leader in the photographic community. After thirty years of teaching photography, Donna retired and opened The Photographer’s Eye in Escondido, a gallery whose mission is to enlighten and educate the community on the history and art of photography through exhibitions and classes.
"We the People, in Order to Form a More Perfect Union"… from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, 1787, Philadelphia
We came up with this theme after the November election, which triggered fear about the future among so many artists. In this time of unmitigated chaos, the threat is real. We can only do what we can do…some of us create art. The photographers here have shown us through various ways of image-making, that their minds and hearts have grappled with this new reality and produced myriad ways of dealing with it. We need to continue. Please don't stop.
We did not receive the number of entries we were hoping for, but what did come through was a wonderful variety, and juror Arthur Olmann was impressed, especially by those who chose the path of metaphor.
Please enjoy the results of this juried exhibition, selected by Arthur Olmann. We look forward to producing a Blurb book in the next several weeks. Stay tuned.
