Field Jacket, photograph by Matt Johnson
Juneau – Now in its 53rd year, Alaska Positive is a juried photography exhibit featuring entries from across the state. Alaska Positive opens at the State Museum on December 1, 2023 and runs through March 9, 2024. It then travels to museums around Alaska.
Juried by documentary and fine art photographer Camille Seaman, the exhibit presents a selection of 35 photographs from 24 photographers.
Matt Johnson received the Juror’s Choice Award for his photograph Field Jacket. Field Jacket is printed with pigment ink on watercolor paper. It depicts a canvas hunting jacket suspended above a beach, near the mouth of Ship Creek in Anchorage.
Loren Holmes and Kerry Tasker received Awards of Recognition for Body of Work: Holmes for his submissions Raven in Wind, Spawning Salmon, Lake Nerka, Snow Crab, St. Paul, and Breaking Ice, Bering Sea; and Tasker for Castner Ice, Cloud Chamber, and Glacier, Knik.
Alaskan photographers submitted 202 entries for the competition.
Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum sponsored the awards.
Guest juror Camille Seaman recently gave a lecture at the Alaska State Museum. It was recorded for later broadcast by KTOO 360TV and will be available on the Alaska Positive 2023 exhibit page and the Alaska State Libraries, Archives, and Museums YouTube channel.
Seaman believes “art is not only important; it is necessary for us to communicate what is happening with our planet.” Her photographs concentrate on the fragile environment of the polar regions, reminding us “we are of this Earth, and we only get one.”
Michael Conti, The Circus Has Left Town, Adak, Alaska
Hal Gage, Untitled from the Death of Ice Series
Hal Gage, Untitled from the Death of Ice Series
Christopher Grau, Bolt, Son of Flame
John Hagen, Alaska Eulachon
Bill Heubner, Matanuska Glacier Silt-8407
Bill Heubner, Matanuska Glacier Silt-8480
Bill Heubner, Potter Marsh Methane Bubbles-2943
Loren Holmes, Raven in Wind, AWARD OF RECOGNITION (FOR BODY OF WORK)
Loren Holmes, Spawning Salmon, Lake Nerka, AWARD OF RECOGNITION (FOR BODY OF WORK)
Loren Holmes, Snow Crab, St. Paul, AWARD OF RECOGNITION (FOR BODY OF WORK)
Loren Holmes, Breaking Ice, Bering Sea, AWARD OF RECOGNITION (FOR BODY OF WORK)
Amber Johnson, Spring
Matt Johnson, Field Jacket, JUROR’s CHOICE AWARD
Michael Johnson, Face in Stream
Michael Johnson, Fish Grab
Genevieve Klebba, Last of the Leaves in Denali
Cynthia Lagoudakis, Frozen Shoreline on the Narrows
Bonnie Landis, Rain and Snow
J. Jason Lazarus, Rivulets of Silted Gold, Castner Glacier Near Paxson, Alaska
Deborah Mercy, Ward Lake Trees
Deborah Mercy, Humpy in the Creek
Jenny Irene Miller, Mom, Aaka, and Grammy
Richard Murphy, Yet Another Spruce
Kimberly Nesbitt, Where the Forest Meets the Ice
Brian Schneider, Boreal Forest Walk
Brian Schneider, Forest Portal
Rochelle Smallwood, Alaĝum Ayagaa
Kerry Tasker, Castner Ice, AWARD OF RECOGNITION (FOR BODY OF WORK)
Kerry Tasker, Cloud Chamber, AWARD OF RECOGNITION (FOR BODY OF WORK)
Kerry Tasker, Glacier, Knik, AWARD OF RECOGNITION (FOR BODY OF WORK)
Naona "Peaches" Wallin, Sunrise Serenity: Humpback Edition
Dennis Walworth, Frost Bloom
Jeremy Wood, Brief Revelation
Douglas Yates, Boreal Glory
Visit Online Exhibitions to see previous Alaska Positive exhibitions.
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