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effort result in success
available at major bookstores; ing for just such an opportunity.
articles about Burkett have ap An aspiring photographer in his
peared in numerous photogra own right, Christopher eagerly
phy magazines and newspa accepted the position and it’s
pers across the country — and been a match, one might say,
made in heaven.
as far away as Sweden.
“He’s quiet and very industri
Guy Swanson, owner of
Photographic Image Gallery in ous; hard-working and extreme
Portland’s popular Pearl Dis ly meticulous,” said Burkett.
Christopher now cuts all of
trict, recently launched a spe
cial exhibit of Burkett’s work the mats and sends prints to
and currently carries a full the many galleries that carry
range of the Vernonia artist’s Burkett’s photographs. And
when the Burketts are off on
images for sale in his gallery.
“Christopher
Burkett’s one of their many excursions
artistry transcends the cam into the heart of America, their
era," said Swanson. “I’ve al diligent assistant (who has also
ways been fascinated with the become a family friend) is
way a great musician, for in ready at the phone for daily in
stance, can transform a saxo structions, carrying out busi
phone into more than a musical ness as usual from Vernonia.
instrument. When an artist of
Beside his newest exhibit at
that caliber plays music, you the Forestry Center, Burkett’s
feel as though you suddenly second book, Intimations ot
have a window into their very Paradise, printed by the promi
soul. Christopher Burkett gives nent Gardner Lithograph Com
the viewer this same kind of in pany in Buena Park, California,
credibly transcendent experi will soon be available at book
ence with his photographs.”
stores. The Burketts will travel
Burkett is pleased with yet to the Frankfurt (Germany)
another harmonious connection Book Fair in October to pro
in his professional life. When he mote and market the new
was searching for a studio as book, and Calumet, a fine arts
sistant, he found out through catalog company in Chicago,
the family grapevine that a will carry Burkett’s newest
Portland State University stu book.
dent, Ian Christopher, was look
The exhibit, “Light in the
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