The Best of PhotoZone Gallery

Based in Eugene, PhotoZone is a collection of diverse individuals interested in the craft of photography.   It provides a venue for fine art photographers from across Oregon to display their work.  It is dedicated to the study, production, display and promotion of fine art photography.

In 1988 a group of 18 photographers opened an exhibit in the old Midgley building on High St. in Eugene, Oregon and the PhotoZone Gallery was born. Of the group’s purpose a member wrote, “The primary requirement for membership is a dedication to photography as an expressive medium.” A quarter century and 100+ exhibits later PhotoZone continues to provide a venue for fine art photography in Eugene. The group continues to exhibit in various locations and sponsors a juried show every July which is open only to non-members. Many photographic artists receive their first public exposure by entering PhotoZone’s annual juried show.

Spectrum Art Gallery has since its’ inception in 1980 maintained an outreach with other community art organizations, such as the Fresno Free College Foundation, the Fresno Art Museum, the Image Makers and Wilem Gallery of the Monterrey Peninsula, Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, and in the early days of Viewpoint Gallery in Sacramento. Susie Morrill, a fellow instructor along with me at The Ansel Adams Gallery Workshop in the years of its famously popular, large scale, two week-long format, kept me informed of the activities of PhotoZone Gallery in Eugene. Along with her part in this group, she taught photography in Oregon and has nurtured others for years. In so many ways PhotoZone felt like a “sister organization.” It made sense that eventually we might do a trade exhibition; whereby, our respective communities would get a chance to experience the artistry of the other. 

Check out their online gallery where new work refreshes each month <https://www.photozonegallery.com/>

………Steve Dzerigian