Finding My Perspective Alaska-based photographer, filmmaker, and aerial artist Toby Harriman shares the unconventional creative path that eventually led him to find his niche in aerial photography and build a career around seeing the world from a different perspective. Long before photography became his career, Toby was driven by making things. Art classes and ceramics Read more about September Artist Talk: Toby Harriman[…]
NEVADA WIER is a multiple award-winning photographer specializing in documenting the remote corners of the world and the cultures that inhabit them. She is recognized for her creative and intimate approach to people, as well as her intriguing infrared images. She has been published in numerous national and international publications, including: National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Geo, Islands, NY Times Magazine, Outside, and Smithsonian. Nevada’s work Read more about Rarefied 2026 Juror Lecture & Workshop space available[…]
Please join us on 4/21 at 7pm for an artist talk by Katie Basile via zoom and at Anchorage’s The Stoop, a new center designed to inspire, educate & equip lens-based artists, located at 301 E Fireweed. Katie Baldwin Basile is a documentary photographer and socially engaged artist based in Bethel, Alaska. Her work focuses Read more about April Artist Talk: Katie Basile[…]
Please join us on 2/17 at 7pm for an artist talk by Dmitry Surnin ( @dsurn)via zoom and at Anchorage’s The Stoop, a new center designed to inspire, educate & equip lens-based artists, located at 301 E Fireweed. Dmitry Surnin is a freelance cinematographer and filmmaker based in Anchorage, Alaska. After immigrating to Alaska from Read more about February Artist Talk: Dmitry Surnin[…]
Please join us on 1/20 at 7pm for an artist talk by Jonas Banta ( @jonas.banta ) via zoom and at Anchorage’s @thestoop_prc The Stoop, a new center designed to inspire, educate & equip lens-based artists, located at 301 E Fireweed. Jonas Banta is a photographer and bookmaker currently living in Portland, Oregon. He holds Read more about January Photo Tuesday: Jonas Banta[…]
Please join us later this month for an artist talk by Emily Mesner ( @emilymesnerphoto )via zoom and at Anchorage’s The Stoop, a new center designed to inspire, educate & equip lens-based artists, located at 301 E Fireweed. Emily Mesner is an Anchorage-based artist who uses photography, creative writing and bookmaking to explore our collective Read more about November Photo Tuesday: Emily Mesner[…]
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[…]
Join us for the upcoming September Artist Talk with Mariano Gonzales on 9/17 at 7pm – online via Zoom! Some information shared by Mariano about the upcoming talk, entitled “Photography at the Center of My Creativity”: “When we express our creativity visually, we start with our eyes and immediately shape the idea through our senses Read more about September’s Artist Talk – Mariano Gonzales[…]
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[…]