Who We Are

Photolucida Staff

LAURA MOYA (Executive Director) Director of Photolucida for five years, Laura has also worked for Photoeye in Santa Fe, the Northwest Film Center in Portland, and the Sundance Film Festival in Park City. 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 curated exhibits in Portland, China and Inner Mongolia, and has participated in portfolio reviews locally and internationally, most recently at Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Lens Culture/FotoFest during Paris Photo.
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.
LAUREN HENKIN Born in Washington, D.C., award-winning, internationally shown photographer Lauren Henkin has a degree in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. Henkin has been a reviewer for Newspace Center for Photography, Portland State University, Lúz Gallery, and is an active member in the Portland, Oregon photographic community. In addition, she founded Photo Radio, a blog presenting audio interviews with curators, gallerists, artists, publishers, educators and more. She has shown her own work throughout the United States as well as in Canada and France and recently published her first book, titled “Displaced” with the help of a Regional Arts & Culture Council grant.
JONI KABANA Joni Kabana is most happy when she is deep into a world that is unfamiliar to her and when her images bring good things to the subjects she photographs. She graduated with a degree in Psychology and after years of working in technical program management, decided to pursue commercial work in photography full time. Today she can be found at home and in remote villages across the globe, trying to stretch her beliefs and imagination as far as they will go. Her work has garnered awards and has been shown in galleries across the nation and has been published extensively. She currently teaches for several organizations and organizes her own street and international photography workshops.
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.

ADVISORY COUNCIL
Roy Flukinger
Cherie Hiser
Marita Holdaway
Jim Leisy
Alison Devine Nordstrom
Christopher Rauschenberg
Mary Virginia Swanson
Barbara Tannenbaum
Tim Wride