Wednesday, October 2, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Photographer hosts retrospective
Helen Schmidling
Correspondent
PHOTO PROVIDED
Artists’ work displayed
at Black Butte Ranch
High Desert Art League
member Barbara Hudler Cella
will exhibit landscape paint-
ings of Central Oregon lakes
and rivers in her October
2019 solo show at the Black
Butte Ranch Lodge.
The exhibition will also
feature paintings from farther
afield, including two interna-
tional award-winning paint-
ings and a series of Cinque
Terre, Italy boat paintings.
Looking at the world through
her own unique lens, the
Bend artist immerses herself
into the sounds, smells, color
and light of the scenes she
captures in her paintings.
The Lodge exhibition is
open from 3 to 9 p.m. daily
during the month of October.
For more information, visit
www.barbaracella.com or
email barbara@barbaracella.
com.
Professional photogra-
phers use their heart, their tal-
ents, and their tools to docu-
ment the <who, what, and
where= of life, from its ugly
and unbelievable underbelly
to the most famous people
and beautiful places on earth.
Jay Mather has made this
his life9s mission. The Sisters
Area Photography Club
(SAPC) invites the public to
its October meeting, where
Mather will present a ret-
rospective program called
<From Cambodia to the
Cascades: A Photographer9s
40-year Visual Life.=
The
meeting
is
Wednesday, October 9 from
4 to 6 p.m. in the Community
Room of Sisters Library. The
club encompasses members
from professionals to begin-
ners who want to get more
into 4 and out of 4 their
images. While the club and
its meetings are always open
to new members, this month9s
program is of particular inter-
est to the entire community,
as one of our own residents is
the featured presenter.
As Mather explains, <A
photojournalist working in
the newspaper industry cov-
ers wide-ranging topics,
events, and people, from the
rich and famous to the poor
and nameless. In the arc of
my career, there are several
topics at the core of my evo-
lution, from Pulitzer-Prize
photojournalism to the seren-
ity of landscape photography
in Oregon.=
Math er w ill p resen t
and discuss his work, from
Cambodia to Yosemite
National Park, the world of
ballet, the artists of Sisters
Folk Festival, and the land-
scapes of Central Oregon.
<When I reflect on each of
these projects, I understand
how each one moved me
visually in a new direction,
and added a deeper respect
for the value of documentary
photography,= he said.
Mather first became inter-
ested in photography as a
Peace Corps volunteer in
Malaysia in 1969-70. His
career in photojournalism
went from Denver, Colorado
to Louisville, Kentucky and
Sacramento, California.
He spent time with Mother
Teresa and the Missionaries
of Charity, Pope John Paul II,
and President Clinton. He9s
covered stories on hunger,
homelessness, AIDS, and war.
In November, 1979, while
working for the Courier-
Journal in Louisville, he
and fellow journalist Joel
Brinkley traveled to the
Thailand-Cambodia border
to document the mass exodus
of Cambodian refugees flee-
ing the wrath of the Khmer
Rouge and the invading North
Vietnamese Army. They
documented what9s become
known as <The Killing
Fields,= and their coverage
earned the 1980 Pulitzer Prize
for International Reporting.
Mather will share his
deep love and respect for the
environment, as documented
in projects on Yosemite
National Park, the Desert
Protection Act in California,
the declining health of the
Sierra Mountain Range, and
the ongoing drought in the
Colorado River Basin. The
Yosemite Association pub-
lished his book, <Yosemite: A
Landscape of Life,= in 1990
for the national park9s centen-
nial celebration. The project
earned Mather honors as a
finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer
Prize Feature Photography
category, and his nickname,
<Yosemite Jay.=
His most current chapter
examines the natural beauty
of Central Oregon, the high
desert, and threats to our
region brought on by climate
change. He divides his efforts
between the Deschutes Land
Trust and the Sisters Folk
Festival, documenting the
activities of these non-profit
organizations.
For more informa-
tion about the Sisters Area
Photography Club, or the
upcoming meeting, con-
tact SAPC President Bill
Birnbaum via email at Bill@
BillBirnbaum.com.
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