From @BillShapiro former LIFE editor

It’s Friday so let’s Meet This Photographer: David Paul Bayles (@davidpaulbayles) lives in the Oregon woods and between two worlds: Corvallis, a college town, and Philomath, a smaller, working-class logging town.

MEANS AND MATTERS: Essay by Rebecca Senf PhD

March 5, 2023

Rebecca Senf is the Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. It was a delight to spend time with her discussing the various approaches to my photographic work.

LENSCRATCH: Q and A with Linda Alterwitz

January 17, 2023

Fred and I enjoyed the conversation with Linda about our Following Fire project. She is a wonderful interviewer and even better photographer. Check out the article and images she selected for it at LENSCRATCH

ON EARTH: A FRAGILE EXISTENCE

April 02, 2022 to September 18, 2022

On Earth: A Fragile Existence highlights works from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s permanent collection that reflect a multi-layered understanding of humanity's role in our shared ecology with the non-human, or more-than-human, world.

On view at The Wildling Museum April 9 - September 26, 2022. The public is invited to attend an opening reception on Sunday, April 10, 2022 from 3 - 5 p.m.

I learned from a work crew that the orange pipes were going to bring fiber optic cable to our rural neighborhood. More pipes began to swirl and swoop beside the country roads. Some pipes burrowed into the ground in one place and burst up from it in another.

Read the rest of this article by Blake Andrews HERE

Iʻm pleased to share the fourth magazine cover my images have been on this past year. As part of my residency at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, I created a series of images titled Old Growth Dialogue.

I am deeply honored to have my photographs from the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest accompany the essay by Vincent Miller in the January 2020 online and print issue of Commonweal Magazine.

Last month at a hip co-working space in Oakland, I spread out over a hundred proof prints from my project Sap in Their Veins and watched as Alyssa Coppelman (picture editor and researcher with Harpers, PBS, Oxford American and Adobe Create) went to work.

The second stop for my traveling exhibition is the Prichard Gallery at the University of Idaho in the town of Moscow. It’s a big city gallery in a small town. If you are in the area this summer, go there for a fabulous exhibit by the Swiss installation artist Zimoun.

Terrain is a fabulous art and literary magazine that you should subscribe to right away. I promise you will be glad that you did. Subscriptions are free, and they welcome donations which keeps the high quality content available for us all.

Experiments begin by asking new questions or by asking old questions in new ways. The HJ Andrews Experimental Forest is a place of inquiry for scientists, writers, artists and musicians.

My artist in residency at The Andrews came at a perfect time for two reasons.

The multi-talented Jennifer Stoots finds yet another voice as she shares the most savory secrets of photographic history through her Instagram page. 

I can feel her passion in every expertly researched post. Like every good historian, she puts the image into context by weaving together general history, photographic history and the relevant details of the image maker's life.

The Best Rejection Letter I’ve Ever Received

Recently I sent a few work prints and a copy of Urban Forest to a favorite writer of mine. On the backs of two of the prints I wrote a note asking if he would be interested in writing an essay to go with this new work.

Just before Christmas Lea and I were thrilled to visit the new installation of fifteen photographs from my Falling Trees and Sap in Their Veins collections acquired last year by the Portland offices of the international law firm of Stoel Rives LLP. 

One year ago, on Thanksgiving Day, I signed a contract with The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley to create The David Paul Bayles Photographic Archive.  It was a major moment in my life, and I was delighted to share it with family.

Emma Kisiel is an insightful photographer and the author of a rich blog experience titled Muybridge's Horse. She is a passionate voice for all things flora and fauna.

A few weeks ago I was delighted to present at The Society for Photographic Educators Northwest Conference here in Corvallis, Oregon. The title of my 45 min. presentation was From Chainsaw to Camera: A Life With Trees. In two weeks I will be giving an expanded version of the same presentation to the Academy for Lifelong Learning