Thank you to all who entered our 2025 Rarefied Light call for entry! This last week, award winners for this year’s CFE were announced during our Juror Lecture, but in case you missed that presentation, the award winners are as follows: Best of Show: Bill Heubner’s “Matanuska Glacier Silt and Water, 3622” Honorable Mentions: Julie Read more about 2025 Rarefied Light Award Winners & Juror Lecture Link[…]
Thanks to all who entered #RarefiedLight2025 this year – but don’t forget that there’s still some outstanding ways to connect, learn and participate with this year’s juror, Stephanie Johnson @stephjohnphoto : their upcoming public lecture (via Youtube and in-person) will be free and open to the public. Unfortunately, all spots have been taken up in their workshop over this Read more about Rarefied ’25 Juror Lecture: Stephanie Johnson[…]
Rarefied Light 2025‘s Call for Entry will open via Café (callforentry.org) until June 11th at 10pm MST. Our 2025 Rarefied Light Juror is Stephanie Johnson, a globally-recognized leader & mentor of ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) & creative photography. LECTURE DETAILS: July 17th, 7pm Juror Lecture “The Language of Abstraction: Pushing beyond Representation” In her presentation, The Language of Abstraction: Pushing Read more about 2025 Rarefied Light Call for Entry, Juror Workshop & Lecture Details[…]
The Rarefied Light 2024 is currently touring throughout Alaska – please see our schedule below for additional information on upcoming openings. The Anchorage exhibit includes work by juror Aline Smithson (@alinesmithson ) showing concurrently.The Alaska Photographic Center (APC) is a statewide organization formed in 1983, with a mission to promote fine art photography in Alaska. Read more about UPDATED: Rarefied Light 2024 Awards & Travel Schedule[…]
JUROR INFORMATION The juror for 2024, Aline Smithson is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, educator, and editor based in Los Angeles, California. Her practice examines the archetypal foundations of the creative impulse and she uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography.Smithson has exhibited widely including over 50 solo shows at institutions such Read more about 2024 Juror Lecture & Workshop[…]
Join us online for a virtual walk-through of the 2023 Rarefied Light exhibition in Fairbanks, hosted by APC Board Member J. Jason Lazarus and Fairbanks Arts Association. Get a chance to see Alaska’s finest photographers talk about their work as we tour the exhibition in Fairbanks!
ANCHORAGE: Please join us for the opening reception for Rarefied Light 2022 this Friday, November 4th, from 4:30-6pm at Alaska Pacific University‘s ConocoPhillips and Carr Gottstein Galleries. We’re looking forward to sharing the 55 pieces selected by juror Dan Burkholder before they start traveling the state. We hope to see you there!
This year’s competition drew 460 photographs from 70 Alaskan artists. Dan Burkholder has selected 55 entries that will travel the state until 2023. Congratulations to all who were invited to exhibit their work for this traveling exhibition! Stay tuned to our social media and website as we begin to share details on this traveling exhibition, Read more about Rarefied Light 2022 Award Recipients[…]
Oct, 16th 2018 7:00 pm Anchorage Museum at Rasmussen Center 625 C Street Anchorage We are pleased to once again offer a guided walkthrough of the Rarefied Light exhibit for our photo Tuesday event! Artists are invited to attend and talk briefly about their pieces – answer questions. It’s a great opportunity to get an Read more about Photo Tuesday // Rarefied Light Walkthrough[…]
The Rarefied Light 2018 exhibition will kick off with an opening reception at the Anchorage Museum on September 28th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Rarefied Light is Alaska’s largest annual fine art photography exhibition. This year we received 610 entries by 91 artists. Guest juror Arthur Meyerson, selected 50 photographs by 34 artists for inclusion in Read more about Rarefied Light 2018 // Awards[…]