BETH MOON
NARDO II, 2022

Archival pigment print, edition of 4
12 x 7 3/4" image mounted on 15 x 11 1/2" sheet with artist mark

In 2015, Beth Moon visited many ancient olive groves in Italy. The groves, only accessible by stone paths or mule tracks, give a sense of the past. Expressive in form, the trees stretch out in wild and weirdly contorted shapes. Many have lived over a thousand years, still bearing fruit in great age.

But unknown to farmers, meadow spittlebugs were quickly multiplying, carrying a virus deadly to these ancient trees with them. In an attempt to contain the virus from spreading into Northern Europe, farmers were ordered by the government to cut down their heritage trees, resulting in economic catastrophe and heartbreak. Beth Moon talked at PhotoAlliance in 2015 and presented her project at PhotoAlliance 2022 Eco Art Symposium.

SALLY GALL
HEAVEN, 2002

Gelatin silver print, AP
11 1/2 x 9" image mounted on 14 x 11" sheet

Sally Gall is well known for the evocative landscape photographs she has created and exhibited for the past twenty-five years. Her imagery has ranged from formal and idyllic gardens to threatening and dramatic wildernesses. But, as Mark Strand points out, “her discovery of and interest in the interior landscape, a subject matter that few photographers have explored, came to her by accident while ducking into a cave for shelter during a rainstorm in the jungle near Vera Cruz, Mexico.”

Gall admits, “that is when I began to comprehend that I had left the horizon behind and entered the inner outdoors, where known boundaries disappear and night and day somehow manage to coexist.” Filtered through this lens of myth, transgression and transcendence, Gall introduces us to a fantastic and otherworldly landscape at the boundaries of our experience. Sally Gall gave a talk to PhotoAlliance in 2002.

BARBARA BOISSEVAIN
SALT POND GRID VI, 2020

Archival pigment print
15 x 15" image on 17 x 17" sheet

In Salt of the Earth, Barbara Boissevain uses a vivid and abstract visual language combined with shifting viewpoints to enhance the surreal nature of the San Francisco bay’s transforming landscape while examining the impact of human activity on the environment. After several years of taking these aerial photographs, Boissevain had thousands of images and began creating formal grids based on the year they were photographed and a common color palette. Salt of the Earth was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2023. Barbara Boissevain shared the story of Salt of the Earth at PhotoAlliance in 2023.

VILLE KANSANEN
UNTITLED (ORION), 2022

Archival pigment print
10 x 13" image on 11 x 14" sheet

Numen is an installation and land art series by Ville Kansanen. Currently working and living on the west coast of the United States, Kansanen uses photography as a medium to rediscover the ancient human connection and dedication to nature. He goes into the western deserts of the United States- the terminal landscape of the Anthropocene and the nascent landscape of Abrahamic religion- and captures the horizons of light and earth’s encounter. He creates cosmic installations using wood, boards, strings, ropes, native rocks, soil, and revived materials from previous installations, all connected with surrounding nature through light sources such as the sun and moonlight. Ville Kansanen presented Numen at PhotoAlliance in 2023.

PhotoAlliance is proud to present the portfolio INSIGHT/INCITE 20/20 as a tribute to our twenty years of service to the Bay Area photography community, and as a foundation for our future!

Curated by PhotoAlliance founder and creative director Linda Connor, this portfolio includes 20 signed limited edition prints by local, regional and international photographers.

Available at second tier pricing of $3,000. Please contact kristy@photoalliance.org