Who We Are

Photolucida Staff

LAURA MOYA (Executive Director) Laura Moya has a background in documentary photography and film production and promotion. She has worked for photoeye Gallery in Santa Fe, the Northwest Film Center in Portland, and the Sundance Institute in Park City, where she was manager for the “House of Docs”, a venue for documentary filmmakers at the the Sundance Film Festival. Working for Sockeye Creative, she produced the film installations for the Oregon Historical Society Museum’s new wing (one winning the 2005 MUSE award). She co-directed and produced the film, “Dutch Harbor - Where the Sea Breaks It’s Back”, which was filmed in Alaska’s Aleutian islands. It has been screened in over 60 U.S. and international engagements. Laura has performed portfolio reviews locally and internationally.
TRICIA HOFFMAN (Programs Coordinator) Tricia Hoffman is a student of photography at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She has an associate’s degree in photography from the Delaware College of Art and Design; has been published in “The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes”, 2nd ed by, Christopher James; and will have her first solo show at the Newspace Center for Photography in 2010. Prior to returning to school to study photography, Tricia spent several years working in non-profit arts management, focusing on both curatorial and fundraising work.

Photolucida Board

SHAWN RECORDS (Board President) Shawn Records holds a BA from Boise State University and an MFA from Syracuse University. His work has been shown at Blue Sky Gallery, Castillo/Corrales, the Portland Art Museum, the Whatcom Museum of History and Art, the Bronx River Arts Center, the Jen Bekman Gallery, and the Rooke Gallery. His work has also been published in Camerawork, DoubleTake, Ripe, Portland Modern, Photography Quarterly, Practice: New Writing and Art, and included in “Around the Corner: a Photo Essay” by Lucy R. Lippard. His work is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Boise Art Museum, and the Portland and Boise Visual chronicles.
BRYAN WOLF (Secretary) Bryan Wolf is a die-hard film photographer, traditional custom printer and photography teacher. He is the founder of Lightleak, a group of 12 creative Portland photographers, and he is an active member of the Portland Grid Project. In addition to working on his own long-term personal documentary projects, he is currently working toward publishing a journal of contemporary photography.
CHERIE HISER Cherie Hiser is an internationally recognized artist, teacher, innovater, curator and consultant in the field. She founded and works with numerous photography programs around the country including: The Center of the Eye (Aspen), Anderson Ranch Art Center (Snowmass, Colorado), Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities (Idaho), Ansel Adams Friends of Photography (Carmel, Calif), PhotoWorks NorthWest (Portland, OR). She has been on the Board of Directors for Photoamericas/Photolucida since 1999 and was Chairperson of the Fine Art Auctions in 2000 and 2001. She is a third generation Portlander and continues to be active locally and nationally with teaching photography; publishing, exhibiting and selling her work; curating and advocating for other artists.
STU LEVY Stu Levy is a photographer and has been a workshop instructor for 20 years. He is a photography collector and is President of the Photography Council of the Portland Art Museum. Stu's photographs involve large format black and white landscapes and “Grid-Portraits”. A One Picture Book will be published this year by Nazraeli Press of his portrait of Carl Chiarenza, entitled “Cranial Czar, Eh?”.
ANNA SORTUN Anna Sortun is an attorney with the Portland law firm Tonkon Torp LLP, where her practice focuses on commercial litigation. Anna is a photography enthusiast and ardent supporter of the arts, having previously served on the board of the Northwest Dance Project. She recently spent several months photographing the people and cultures she encountered during her travels throughout Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Our national advisory board members are:
Roy Flukinger
Marita Holdaway
Jim Leisy
Alison Devine Nordstrom
Christopher Rauschenberg
Mary Virginia Swanson
Barbara Tannenbaum
Tim Wride