Portland Archives - Joni Kabana PhotographyJoni Kabana Photography

iPortland Show

Our group iPortland show received quite a bit of press, even landing a spot on the evening local news. It has been great fun to be a part of this show. All images were taken by professional photographers with their cell phones. The show started at Newspace Center For Photography and is currently at Gallery 135, both locations in Portland, Oregon.

1859 Magazine: Sunstone, Career Changes and A Lovely Man

I had the exciting pleasure of working on three articles for the Winter 2011 issue of 1859 Magazine. Traveling to the wilds of Oregon’s most remote SE corner to the town of Plush, I photographed the conflict over mining sunstones. For another article, I met several people who chucked their corporate jobs and re-invented themselves. And I met a most special man, John Callahan, the literary executive of Ralph Ellison’s unfinished manuscripts.

Thank you, Kevin Max, for giving me these assignments. They rock my world.

Street Photography Workshop: April 8-10, 2011

Another street photography workshop has been scheduled for April 8-10! Join Quinton and I as we once again hit the Portland streets to create portraiture and editorial images.

Spaces fill up quickly, as we limit the number of participants to keep the class small, so sign up early!

1859 Magazine Assignment: “My Neighborhood”

I have just been assigned a photo essay project for a spread in the upcoming Winter 2011 issue of 1859 Magazine: it is called “My Neighborhood”. Here is a snap I took a few weeks ago of some people I met on Hawthorne Blvd.

I really love my job.

City Club Exhibit

Here is a shot of Portland’s City Club exhibit of wall size portraits from India, Madagascar and Nepal. The exhibit was up for four months and created quite a stir! Here is one email that I received:

Hi Joni,

This is Seanna, from Portland State (Capstones). I just wanted to let you know that JoAnn, a Capstone faculty member and I went down to the City Cub to view your work on Monday. We were both completely blown away by the power of the photographs. It amazed us how emotional the photographs are. We both felt like we could feel the strength and pride of one of the women photographed, we smiled observing the impishness of a grin of someone in the background of another…The quality of the photos are outstanding. We both commented on the TEXTURE of the photos.The photos of the women with head coverings just “felt” like the images were super-imposed onto fabric instead of paper due to the rich texture within the photo. Really, we were just in awe!

Many thanks to Pro Photo Supply for printing the images, and to Lloyd Lemmermann for taking these interior photos.