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We live in a world of cameras.
Cameras are now everywhere we look
- and everywhere we don’t.
Cameras are in the smiling faces and
loving hands of friends and family. They
look down at us from freeway overpasses
and from doorways and corners of stores
and aisles of malls. They capture our laughs,
our tears, our joy and sadness. Cameras
capture us speeding through intersections
and guide afternoon traffic home through
freeway clogs and
confusion.
Cameras are in our
pockets, our phones and our computers.
We click, Skype, chat, Twitter, Flickr and
blog. We upload, download, archive, email,
send and lose more pictures on any given
day than past generations did in a lifetime.
Our double chins pop up on Facebook;
our bad hair days are shown no mercy.
Our children, our pets, our vacations are
now documented in real-time photos.
There is no escaping the multi-megapixel,
auto-focus world of ever-ready digital
photography.
In my generation I’ve witnessed home
photography go from the Brownie Box
camera and Kodak to black-and-white film
and flashbulbs to Polaroids and i-Zone
Announcing the Winners of Just Out's 2009 Amateur Photo Contest
Our grand prize-winning photograph for
2009 comes from Donald Finch. The image
was captured at the doorway of the main
hangar at the Tillamook Air Museum. Finch was
captivated by the “they’ve also served” vibe
DONALD FINCH of the women in uniform. The importance
of acknowledging the brave, bold and fighting women of
World War II resonated with him.
Finch had his artwork first published as the back cover
of Jack & Jill magazine when he was 8. In the ensuing five
decades, he has designed special event clothing, invitations,
corporate holiday cards and theatrical costumes, although he
explains that he “counts other people’s money” for a living as
an accountant.
Finch grew up “in the shade of LAX,” ran away from
home to San Francisco at 36 and, in 2001, moved to Port
land to be with his “huzbear" Michael - after 18 months of
emails and three dates. They were one of the “Portland 3000”
to marry in March 2004.
Congrats to Finch, the rest of our picks and to everyone
who shared their images.
— M arty D avis
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These ladies in Donald Finch’s
photo rock. They are butch,
femme, dykes, lezzies, queer,
straight, bi, androgynous, and
gay as gay can be. They’ve all got
on a different hat - that in itself
is awesome, and they’re all wearing ties, which
is sexy, sharp and really direct. Who doesn’t
love a lady mannequin in a tie? Aside from the
subjects themselves, this photo is very striking,
with great balance and contrast, especially in
terms of the models’ hair. The image catches
your eye, makes you stop and think, and leaves
you wondering, “Now where in the hell did this
idea come from, and who was the lucky duck
who got to do the set design?”
AMY WILLIAMS.
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER