Jim Allen (Millbrook, NY)

Robin Bailey (Rolling Meadows, IL)

Gregory Bucher (Gibsonia, PA)

Carole Cain (St. Clairsville, OH)

Mark Coggins (Napa, CA)

Kathleen Fleming (Moreland Hills, OH)

Mark Fohl (Westerville, OH)

Steve Frammartino (Parma, OH)

Robert Gideon (Los Angeles, CA)

June Hund (Broadview Heights, OH)

Michael Indriolo (Lakewood, OH)

Patrick Jagger (Capitola, CA)

Lauren Juratovac (Richfield, OH)

Donald Kratt (Orlando, FL)

Christianna Kreiss (Pittsburgh, PA)

Joan Lederer (Cleveland Heights, OH)

David McCrae (Seattle, WA)

Mark Nowak (Elyria, OH)

Charlotte Oulanoff (New Albany, OH)

Robert Palinkas (Avon Lake, OH)

Joan Pogalies (Madison, OH)

Jack Straton (Portland, OR)

Paul Wilbur (Columbus, OH)

Jim Allen
Artist Statement:
As a psychologist I've spent a large portion of my life considering how people interact, perceive themselves and others, and how they come to understand themselves. Areas that I explore through my photography are the exploration of the relationship of one's inner "self" as well as the relationship between "self" and "others." Often the photographs I create turn out to be self-referent. I'm not really sure why. Perhaps I am trying to discover parts of my "self" that will lead me to a better understanding of who I am. Perhaps I am narcissistic. Or maybe I am simply documenting my growth, not only on a psychological level, but also as a photographer.

Bio:
Jim Allen began as an amateur photographer when he purchased a second-hand Praktica 35mm camera in 1969. In 1971 he took his first photography class. The next year he began a teaching career, and did not take another photography class until 2004. During those 33 years, he taught mathematics, earned a Ph.D. in Psychology, and for 29 years was a Professor of Psychology. From 2004 to 2012, he took all the photography classes he could manage through the Art Department at the College of Saint Rose (NY), from Photo I through Graduate level Photo V. In 2010 he began submitting some of his photographic work and has exhibited his photographs in more than 90 exhibitions throughout the United States.

Gregory Bucher
Artist Statement:
My photography explores the interplay of light, form, and historical resonance, drawing connections between the built environment, sculpture, and landscape. With a background in classical studies and ancient visual culture, I bring an archaeological sensibility to my work, focusing on the enduring presence of history in material form-whether through the weathered stones of an old bridge, the chiseled musculature of a marble bust, or the shifting light over a mountainous landscape.

In my architectural and landscape work, I seek to balance structure with atmosphere, allowing depth and texture to emerge naturally from light and shadow. In _Conococheague Bridges_, the layered interplay of arches and reflections suggests a quiet, unfolding dialogue between the past and present. Similarly, _Cuillins from Portree_ captures the brooding weight of the Cuillin mountains, their jagged silhouettes softened by mist and light, evoking the passage of time in an elemental setting.

My sculptural studies take a more intimate approach, treating stone figures not as static objects but as subjects that still communicate across time. _Libyan Sibyl_ isolates the expressive tension of William Wetmore Story's statue, a work that already straddles classical idealization and individual identity, while _Torsion_, a study of William Rimmer's _Falling Gladiator_, emphasizes the twisting musculature and motion embedded in modeled plaster.

The fragmentary nature of history is a recurring theme in my work. _Potomac Murmur_ captures a broken, evocative sculpture by Anne and Patrick Poirier, where the flow of oral history is analogized to water, and the classical fragments remind us that nothing is forever. In _Well Done Thou Good and Faithful Servant_, Karl Bitter's Villard Monument exudes a serene yet monumental presence, reinforcing the idea of legacy and impermanence.

While my work is entirely digital, my editing process aims to evoke the moods and textures I envision, often through monochrome presentation. I use professional giclée printing, selecting papers that enhance each image's character-baryta for deep contrast, matte for soft richness-ensuring that the final print reflects the image's intended impact.

By embracing both classical and contemporary subjects, I seek to create images that are not merely documents, but encounters-spaces where history, material, and vision converge to invite reflection on impermanence, endurance, and the way light reveals meaning.

Bio:
Gregory S. Bucher is a Pittsburgh-based photographer with a background in classical studies and ancient visual culture. After a career as a professor at Creighton University and the University of Maryland, he turned his trained eye for architecture, sculpture, and historical landscapes toward photography.

His work has been juried into exhibitions including the upcoming Lackawanna River and Watershed Exhibition at the Hope Horn Gallery, multiple Art League of Alexandria exhibitions, and The San Diego Museum of Art Artists' Guild exhibition. A solo exhibition of his work, The Mute Stones Speak, was held at the Dare Arts Gallery in Manteo, North Carolina.

His photography explores form, texture, and light, drawing inspiration from both classical art and contemporary fine-art traditions. Whether capturing architectural compositions, sculptural studies, or landscapes, his work emphasizes the enduring presence of history in material form.

Carole Cain
Artist Statement:
It is my desire to capture and share, the non-staged, individual's moment in time and place, while continuing to evolve as a contemporary photographer.

Bio:
It was literally by accident Carole found her passion for photography. At age 60 while riding her bike, she fell and broke her wrist. During the healing process, unable to work with stained-glass, Carole picked up a DSLR camera, balanced it on her cast, and learned to use it. As the wrist healed, she developed a true passion for photography.

Mark Coggins
Artist Statement:
In deciding where to aim my camera, I look for groups of people interacting or engaged in a common activity, rather than individual subjects. As a photographer who has also published seven novels, I am perhaps drawn to tableaus that hint at a story. Take, for example, my image "Geisha Confidential."

The desire to tell a story may also influence my style: I like sharply focused images with a full tonal range pulling detail into the shadows. Almost all my work is black and white with a colder toning. These choices echo the approach of documentary filmmakers and photojournalists looking to capture a scene in detail without the distraction of color.

Whatever my subject and style choices, I hope my photographs convey the energy, communal bonds, and in some cases, inherent mystery and alienation of urban life.

Bio:
Mark Coggins has won numerous awards and competitions, including being shortlisted in the 2023 Photo Review Competition, receiving an award of excellence by the All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies and winning first place in the 2023 Ribbet Emerging Photographer Competition.

Mark Fohl
Artist Statement:
I've been doing this for a long time. Just looking. And I keep finding things. New things to shoot and present. Things in a crowded city, or things in a (nearly) empty landscape. I like shapes and structure.

Bio:
I am a longtime self-taught amateur photographer. I shoot mostly film, but have recently embraced digital. I work in most film formats, 35mm to big view cameras. And I embrace the oddball cameras: plastic Holga, pinhole, and panorama. My favorite subjects are traveling, city details, and landscapes. Structure in the city, doors and windows, with lots of shadows.

I participate in and have photos accepted in many juried exhibitions: Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, the Ohio Art League, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA), the Nelsonville Majestic National Exhibition, the Zanesville Museum of Art All Ohio Exhibition (Best Photograph 2019), and others. I've had solo exhibitions at the Imagery Gallery, Lancaster, Ohio, Inniswood Metro Garden, St. James Tavern, Columbus State Community College Library, Trinity United Methodist Church, and the Denmark on High bar. In 2005, I was awarded the Dresden Residency by the Greater Columbus Arts Council and was in Dresden, G

Steve Frammartino
Artist Statement:
I'm an amateur photographer that is using plastic cameras or toy cameras to capture images I find interesting in my daily travels. Using the plastic cameras, allows me to incorporate the flaws like light leaks into my art.

Bio:
Steve Frammartino is a 50 year old amateur photographer from Cleveland OH that grew up in rural Pennsylvania. As a child he watched factories shuttered and torn down. Moving to a major city like Cleveland in 1999 opened up a world of art and a new found love of all art, choosing photography to capture his adventures.

Robert Gideon
Artist Statement:
Photography is fundamentally documentary. Whether it be the simple act of recording a moment in time for others to experience later, or the more complex layering of emotion and interpretation onto a black and white canvas, ultimately the best photographic works communicate eRectively to the viewer to elicit an emotional reaction. I find my photographic art at the intersection of human empathy and emotion with a desire to express my understanding and appreciation of the small wonders in the world around me. I've often heard artists express a deep need to paint regardless of whether anyone else sees or appreciates their work. I feel similarly, but for me it is a compulsion to visually scan the world around me for subtle patterns and meaning in context and shadow. My artistic practice consists of daily visual meditation on these oft overlooked and humble features. It's there that I find transcendent beauty and I hope that my photos may help the viewer to appreciate it as well.

Bio:
Originally from the east coast, Robert Gideon has called Los Angeles home for the past 10 years. An engineer by training, he brings a careful and measured eye to his photographic work, tempered by a deep understanding of the technology being used and its limitations. Robert is largely self-taught and first learned the art of photography using his dad's Exakta Varex IIa back in the 1980's, shooting black and white negatives and developing them in his high school dark room. He is an award-winning photographer whose work is held in private collections. His photos have been on exhibit in juried group shows in the Southern California area as well as in galleries, museums, and community art spaces across the United States.

Lauren Juratovac
Artist Statement:
This series explores the emotional journey of miscarriage, an experience accompanied by silence and self-blame. The images are a reflection of the intimacy and grief of pregnancy loss. Red tones are used to represent the physicality of womanhood, while cyan tints create opposition and evoke despair.

Bio:
Lauren Juratovac is a Cleveland based Still Life Photographer. Lauren graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Video and Photographic Arts from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2010. Lauren has traveled the world working as first assistant and digital tech to celebrity portrait photographer Martin Schoeller. While working for Martin, she photographed objects collected from flea markets and thrift stores in her free time; which sparked her love of still life photography. After living in Brooklyn, New York for 11 years she moved back to Cleveland, Ohio and now has a beauty and still life photography studio. She also has two rescue dogs and ten chickens.

Donald Kratt
Artist Statement:
I try to distill and isolate meaningful moments through photography. Black and white film photography is to me like rubbing a piece of charcoal on a piece of paper placed over the rough edges of the world. Producing photos from black and white film recalls for me the expressiveness I felt when I first drew with pencil, charcoal, and pen and ink: these gave me my earliest joys in making art.

I like to analyze moments, and people, and myself. The fleeting seconds I spend in the moment of seeing are not enough time to do this properly. I often spend time re-looking at a single photo of mine that has made an impact on me, noting the shadows and light, shapes, and unexpected alignments and surprises only seen afterward.

Given the large amount of imagery seen by all of us in our modern world, it is asking a lot of anyone to devote any attention more than a fleeting glance to any new photograph taken by a stranger. How much time can you expect anyone to look at a single, non-moving image in a world with a constant flood of sensory inputs. Yet, I hope to create a pause, a moment in others, where the beauty - or pain, or personal reality - that has captured my attention is successfully communicated and understood.

Bio:
Donald Kratt is an adjunct instructor in film photography at Crealdé Art School, in Winter Park, Florida, primarily teaching youth and teen film photography and darkroom processes. Donald mostly works in black and white film, from 35mm up to 4"x5" sheet film, experimenting with various alternate processes and chemistry, infrared film, solarization and custom chemical processes.

Joan Lederer
Artist Statement:
I am attracted to story telling in my photography. I do not set up pictures but attempt to pick the moment that has the feeling of the story I am trying to tell. In the work entitled Alyssia I am visually telling the story of a young woman who aspires and becomes a professional boxer. I use Nikon Mirrorless Cameras mainly but not solely with prime lenses.

I have been photographing for the past thirty years. My interest is in spontaneous moments that combine to form a narrative. The work submitted here is about a young woman who aspires and becomes a professional boxer. I followed her during the year of her switching from amateur to professional. What I found was in spite of the ferociousness and violence of boxing there is great love among the people training and the trainers. The discipline necessary is extremely intense and the support people give each other is inspiring.

Bio:
Joan Lederer has been a photographer for the past thirty years. She is also a psychiatrist. The combination of these skills enhances both of them. Her work defines the emotions of the moment within a greater story. She has been mentored by Andre Lambertson and Daniel Levin and has attended numerous workshops at Maine Media, Santa Fe Workshops and the VII agency.

David McCrae
Artist Statement:
My subject matter initially comes from the pantry and the garden. Food and flowers; simple subjects but not mundane, for they feed.

The history of photography is replete with examples of image capture without a camera. My present focus, 'From a Scanner, Darkly,' began when I had no time to work with film. Instead, a scanner and a computer became my substitute for photosensitive materials and a darkroom. The subject matter initially came from the pantry and the garden. Food and flowers; simple subjects but not mundane, for they feed the body and the mind. the body and the mind.

More recent work, 'From a Scanner, Lightly,' started when I bought an inexpensive scanner that is powered by the USB port of a laptop. I was excited to go outside to see what would obtain. The scanner provides unique images when operated in bright light, an unintended mode of operation.

I have continued to pursue still life images, but now with a pinhole camera, bringing a new perspective to the food and flowers.

Bio:
David started learning the process of photography from his grandparents in Colorado, both dedicated amateur photographers and naturalists. Process was left behind for theory while studying art history at the University of California, San Diego, although chemistry and the beach kept interfering.

With the arrival of the digital darkroom at his Berkeley home in 2000, he began working under the tutelage of Jules Spilman, a painter and sculptor trained at the Chicago Art Institute. He offered David his first show in 2004 at his Gallery and Salon, and so a new phase began.

Since 2009, David have shown in about 100 juried competitions, a mode of exhibition fits well with a consuming day job. He also has exhibited in solo shows and local galleries, including The Saaski Gallery, Monroe, WA, Tsuga Fine Art and Framing, Bothell, WA, Edmonds Framing and Atelier, Edmonds, WA and Richard's Artistic Framing, Seattle, WA. Most recently, he has become a remote member of Fotofoto Gallery, Huntington,

Robert Palinkas
Artist Statement:
I enjoy capturing images of a mechanical, industrial or architectural nature. Shapes and textures of things that catch light in a unique way.

After a long hiatus I have recently started working again with analog black & white photography. Using the photo lab provided by the Cleveland Print Room and with the assistance of Hadley Conner and Kal Zehe, I am back doing something I really love. My camera's are a Mamiya/Sekor 528TL 35mm SLR and a Yashica 635 TLR, which allows me to shoot both 35 and 120 film. Also have a Graflex Crown Graphic 4 x 5 which I have not used- yet.. Enjoy the whole process of analog photography: capturing the image, developing the film and printing the photos- it's a satisfying journey!

Bio:
Robert Palinkas is a Cleveland based artist working with analog black & white and digital color photography. Has recently had photos shown at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland and Cuyahoga Valley Arts Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Palinkas will have a solo show at the Phone Gallery in September/October 2026, during the Waterloo Arts Fest in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland.

Joan Pogalies
Artist Statement:
Having lived on the shores of Great Lake Erie my entire life has inspired my entire life: The colors, the clouds, the water, stones. Fierce, furious, threatening. Serene, meditative, calming. And everything in between. Life! The dramatic ways that this lake and land have changed over the decades is astounding. Erosion, enormous loss of property, 50-year-old trees swallowed up, gone. I want to preserve the pieces and parts of my/our surroundings in rich, unexpected compositions so that one must not just see the whole, but are enticed to stop, ponder, look closer, and see it all in new ways, and recognize and experience, with hope, the responsibility we have to our natural surroundings, starting with the details, and our whole selves. The almost-recognizable realism of my photo montages pushes through to puzzling patterns and objects that invite exploration and discovery. No frame. No boundaries.

Bio:
J Pogalies has been influenced entirely by her life on the shores of Great Lake Erie. She greatly enlarges the photos she takes of her every-changing surroundings, flips, flops, stacks them, then has them printed on large metal panels for a visual depth. The arrangements have both macro and micro impacts: from afar she may show abstract bands of colors, Rorschach patterns, mirror images of (almost) recognizable objects or scenes. Look closer to discover perhaps faces staring back, animals, body parts, insects, portals...limited only by imagination. These little extras are not "planted" by Pogalies but exist only in ones imagination. They reside personally within each viewer encouraging curiosity, exchange, commitment, conversation. The "realism" of her photo montages pushes through to puzzling patterns and objects that invite exploration and discovery. She wants you to let yourself go! No frames. No boundaries.

Jack Straton
Artist Statement:
The surrounding world calls to the heart of each of us to notice, to drop our perceptual filters and truly see, to pause and participate in the being-becoming that surrounds us. The photographer's eye must overcome its habituation to the world surrounding us so that what one attends to what is really present. If one is willing to pause and truly see with gaze unfiltered by preconceptions, one finds a profound connection to the world. It is the job of the photographer to capture the visual clues that evoke a sense of home, of connection, of an awareness of our larger selves in such a way that the viewer of the work may feel a resonant connection.

Noticing the play of light across a surface is the key to finding this world-resonance. This beneficence of light upon the gaze of the photographer can become a kind of benediction upon the head and the heart of the viewer. She may have an experience that is akin to remembering something she has never seen or some place she has never been.

Bio:
Straton is a photographer whose creative expression also extends to quantum scattering theory, and music. Over the past eight years 171 national and international gallery- or museum-based competitions for photographers or 2D and 3D artists have invited him to exhibit photographs. He was invited to be artist in residence at Brush Creek Foundation in 2018 and at Great Basin National Park, NV in 2025. He has been awarded First Place among 2D artists in three juried national shows, Third Place in four such shows, and Honorable Mention in five. His most recent shows are: 171) PhotoSpiva 2025, March 15 through May 23, 2025, Spiva Center for the Arts, Spiva Center for the Arts, a national joint show. 170) California Dreaming, February 21 through March 5, 2025, Dorado 806 Projects, Venice, CA, a national joint show of all fine art media. 169) Shades of Gray II, Lioncourt Gallery, opening February 21, 2025, , an international joint show of photography.