DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY 2023 - A JURIED EXHIBITION
On View in Downtown Art Center’s Main Gallery, June 2 - July 1, 2023

With Juror PF Bentley

An art exhibition dedicated to documentary photography opens on June 2 in the Main Gallery at Downtown Art Center, located at 1041 Nuʻuanu Ave, on the second floor of Chinatown Gateway Plaza. The Documentary Photography 2023 Juried Exhibition will feature stand-alone photos, along with series compilations of up to five photographs on a theme or story. Photographs were selected by juror PF Bentley, a former TIME Magazine photojournalist and one of the best-known American photojournalists of his generation.

The exhibition is free to the public, and will be on view from June 2 through July 1 during regular gallery hours, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. There will be a special First Friday Opening Reception on Friday, June 2 from 5:30 - 8 p.m.

Bentley will host a special session on Saturday, June 3 from 2 to 3 p.m. on his approach to selecting submissions for the show. He will also share examples of his recent documentary photography for Hana Hou!, the in-flight magazine of Hawaiian Airlines.

Photographer interest in the show was strong, based on the number of submissions for both categories. Entry was open to both professional and enthusiast photographers who live in the state of Hawaiʻi.

In addition to the photographs chosen for this exhibition, three veteran photographers will have special exhibits within the juried show.

Olivier Koning will have a display titled “The First Hawaiians,” color photographs of indigenous Hawaiian plants. Koning, best known for his architectural photography, has been working on this project for about a decade.

Leslie Gleim’s show-within-a-show is called “In the Beginning …”. She will display her stunning aerial photography of volcanic eruptions on the Big Island. These dramatic images will be paired with Gleim’s equally evocative black and white closeup photography of native Hawaiian plants.

Matt Mallams, a photographer who is the long-time photo editor of the award-winning Hana Hou!, Hawaiian Airlines’ in-flight magazine, has organized “Hana Hou Stories from Hawaiian Airlines.” The exhibit will feature photography from every issue of the magazine for the past year. June will mark the one-year anniversary of NMG Network being named the magazine’s publisher by Hawaiian Airlines.

In addition to their special exhibits, Koning, Gleim and Mallams will talk about their work during special presentations at DAC. Mallams, along with some of the photographers whose work has appeared in Hana Hou!, will speak on Thursday, June 8 from 5 to 8 p.m. Gleim will discuss her work on Saturday, June 10 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. And Koning will talk about his exhibit on Saturday, June 17 from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Exhibition Jurying Results

Congratulations to the following photographers whose series and single photography work have been accepted into the show!

SERIES PHOTOGRAPHY:

• Mengshin Lin

• Lisa K Cho

• Kelli Bullock Hervert

• Susan Kidder

• J. Matt

• Scot Allen

PARTIAL SERIES/SINGLE PHOTO FROM SERIES:

• James Mosher

• Shane Sakata

• James Knudsen

• Scot Allen

• Jeff DePonte

• Mengshin Lin

• David Butterfield

STAND-ALONE IMAGES:

• Scot Allen

• David Butterfield

• Josiah Crutchfield

• Edward Freeman

• Sladjana Grujic Medic

• John Guerin

• Jeremiah Johnson

• Cliff Kimura

• Sandra Meyer

• Brandon Miyagi

• Gary Rotter

• Shane Sakata

• Jenny Sathngam

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