The Photo Exchange
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The Photo Exchange
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Monthly print critiques at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (Irvine, CA) on the 3rd Thursday each month, 6:30 - 9:30 pm PST
Visitors; bring 5 prints & join the discussion
Website: www.thephotoexchange.org
Blog: thephotoexchange.wordpress.com
Announcing open submissions for the 2025 Members Exhibition for the Photographers Exchange; $36.00 for 5 image submission.
May 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Joe Foster's 'A Sweet Interlude, Paris', will be in the OCCCA 25th Anniversary Exhibition (Santa Ana, CA), April 5 - May 17, 2025, with the Artist Reception this Saturday, April 5th, from 6 - 10pm. Joe is also a Photographers Exchange member.

Printed on 17 x 22" Hahnemuhle FineArt Baryta Satin
April 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Wonderful artist reception yesterday evening for two members of the Photographers Exchange; Douglas Stockdale & Paul Anderson. Their two-person exhibition, Fragmented Realities, will be showing at the OC Camera Gallery (Laguna Hills, CA) through April 21st. (photo of Douglas by Kellie Webb)
March 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Fragmented Realities: Exhibition reception this evening at OC Camera Gallery (23052 Lake Forest Dr., Laguna Hills, CA) from 5 - 7pm. Two person show by Douglas Stockdale and Paul Anderson, pairing the old (1840's) with the new (computer programming) to create contemporary urban landscapes.
March 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
March 2025 photo exchange meeting during our annual print exchange, everyone with their new print for their personal collection. Pano photo by Michelle King. Cheers!
March 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fragmented Realities, exhibition artist Paul Anderson and Douglas Stockdale, photo by Michael Graves. Now at OC Camera Gallery, with artist reception on March 29th, 5 - 7pm. This is in conjunction with Stockdale's Photolucida Critical Mass 2023 and 2024 Finalist project exhibition.
March 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Fragmented Realities. A two person exhibition at OC Camera Gallery, divergent in our urban landscape methodologies, pairing the old with the new with Cyanotype photomontages and computer programing. Reception March 29th, 5-7pm.
March 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Michael Graves - Night Lights
I explore the interplay between natural twilight & artificial neon, capturing urban landscapes in the blue hour. Through the interplay of light & shadow, I seek to evoke a sense of place, mystery, & cinematic storytelling.

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Michael Graves – Night Lights
Copyright 2025 Michael Graves – Artist Statement In my current photography project, Night Lights, I explore the interplay between natural twilight and artificial neon, capturing urban landscapes in…
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March 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Rudy Vega - Fugue (for Orchestra in Flight). Like a musical fugue, where a theme is introduced, echoed, inverted, and expanded, these works explore the interplay of structure and improvisation in the ephemeral choreography of birds in flight.

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March 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Paul Anderson - Fragmented Realities. An exhibition of two complementary bodies of art that investigates the contemporary urban landscape. Anderson creates customized computer programming to achieve certain visual effects.

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March 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Correction; the OC Camera Gallery is located in Laguna Hills for the joint exhibition, Fragmented Realities, by Paul Anderson and Douglas Stockdale, both members of the Photo Exchange. Reception is Saturday, March 29th, 5 - 7pm.
Hope we see you there!
February 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Beatta Tuominen's New Narrative: The Space in Between presented at the February 20th Photo Exchange print critique.

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February 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Beatta Tuominen's New Narrative: The Space in Between.

My project is about being sandwiched between an end of the narrative I thought I was living and the new narrative I started to live. Series portrays the idea that a story isn’t always linear.

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Beatta Tuominen – The Space in Between
All Photographs copyright of Beatta Tuominen New Narrative: The Space in Between Artist Statement: My project is about being sandwiched between an end of the narrative I thought I was living and th…
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February 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
February Photo Exchange print critique and discussion of Douglas Stockdale's three polymer photogravure prints (intaglio printing process) in comparison to an inkjet version on Red River Aurora (matte) and a cyanotype. From his series Entanglement (Photolucida 2023 & 2024 Critical Mass Finalist).
February 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Fragmented Realities is an exhibition of two complementary bodies of art by Paul Anderson and Douglas Stockdale, both members of the Photographers Exchange, that investigates the contemporary urban landscape. Very divergent in their respective methodologies, pairing the old with the new.
January 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The creative work space of Douglas Stockdale, a member of the Photographers Exchange. Fun insight, show us your work space where all of your creativity happens.
January 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
November pop-up photo critique of Douglas Stockdale's five multi-media monotypes. PhotoExchange meetings held monthly at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (Irvine, CA), third Thursday of the month, from 6:30 - 9:30 pm (PST).
January 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM