In addition to speakers, we will be reviewing members images after the main presentation: see bottom of this page to see upcoming meeting presenters and who is sharing their images as well as how to signup to show your images.
New Meeting Days: Third Monday of the month from 6:30-9:00pm
Monday February 17th, 2025
― Hopkins Center for the Arts ―
― 1111 Mainstreet Hopkins, MN 55343 ―
Map/ Parking and directions
The Ongoing Moment meets on the third Monday of the month from 6:30-9:00pm
hosted by Mpls. ― based photographers Richard Ott and Walter Horishnyk
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theongoingmoment
Meetings are free, donations are welcome that goes toward special guest speakers,
snacks and beverages.
Sign up in advance to exhibit your images for a short discussion with the hosts and group attendees
by emailing: walter@horishnyk.com or dickophoto@yahoo.com
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
~Ansel Adams
The Ongoing Moment is a monthly meeting for PHOTOGRAPHERS / ARTISTS who wish to increase their understanding and improve their practice of their medium. The title refers to the idea that “we share experiences that are formally similar”
We explore past Master photographers and Contemporary photographers, looking at their images and artistic process to help us go forward on our own photographic journey.
Howard Christopherson
“Over the years I have been creating a variety of photographic images both in the studio and outdoors. I love to explore life through my art and if I am successful it should reflect the grand mystery of life in some way. My ideas comes to me when I open my mind and my eyes and let my true being come out. All my life I have felt a constant and endless need to express my feelings and thoughts by creating new images and works of art. My hope is that you enjoy some of what I have made. Some compositions are personal, nostalgic, and emotional; others are sensual, dark, and enigmatic.”
IceBox Gallery and Master Framer Link
Below text has been excerpted from: ZOOM www.webportfolio.it: by Michela Balzarelli
Howard Christopherson was born and bred in Minnesota, in the Minneapolis area. His artistic creativity is extensive and prolific. He began pen and ink drawing and photography while at school in the 1970s. But his boundless creativity led him to produce and exhibit short films, paint using oils, create sculptures and spend many years doing hand manipulated color photography. His photographs can be grouped under three main themes: People, Places and Dreams. Christopherson says: “People make the story. I have a passion for photographing people. It is a wonderful experience to photograph someone as I am getting to know them. I am interested in a variety of people; young, old, serious, adventurous, creative and eccentric.” He continues, “Place is important for my portraits, a personal space illuminates the internal person, and at the same time it is the internal person that has shaped that place.” His portraits are at times staged, at times fun, capturing a blithe moment in a personʼs life. Sometimes they are as detailed and as well-researched as 15th century Northern European portraits of people in their home. They are saturated with intriguing and charming details. We meet the sitters along with Christopherson and we are introduced to them in their most intimate environments. We feel as if we should be saying hello on the other side of the photo. They welcome us in and we accept their invitation to stay for a drink. “Places draw me in and teach me to see. A place holds many past moments—it is affected by time, humanity, and nature. When I feel the story I can photograph it. A place has mysterious powers. It can be all alone even when you are there, and you can even go to a place without going there. Places can be our friends,they hold our questions and answers quietly and they tell no “lies,” says Christopherson.
He creates beautiful images of interiors and exteriors filled with mystic light and quietness. They speak to us of something that goes beyond the photography, something that can get in touch with our inner being and speak to our feelings within us. We desire to be in that enchanted environment and yet they resemble everyday places that we donʼt normally give the chance to communicate with us. These places live within our subconscious and it feels good to rediscover and savor them. “Dreams come from inside me, they are my imaginary artwork. I am trying to capture the essence of a person using time, and place, and the ephemeral nature of being. Iʼm trying to apprehend something thatʼs very elusive. Itʼs about getting lost in a mood and being involved in what Iʼm doing without necessarily thinking about it intellectually. “There is a certain amount of sensuality and eroticism in these pictures, and a certain preciousness and vulnerability,” says Christopherson. These Images of the female nude evoke the iconography of the horn of plenty; the fruits of nature are linked unequivocally to the female form. Other images have a more cold and detached feel to them, the strong chiaro scuro reminds us of Man Ray stills. During 2004 Christopherson traveled and photographed extensively in Peru, this work is currently occupying him in the dark room. In 1983 Howard M. Christopherson made his first trip to Peru. When he thought about his first visit to South America in 1983, it was the people he remembered the most. On his second trip in July 2004, Christopherson employed a medium format camera and rolls of black and white film. He decided to photograph the people as he encountered them in Inca territory.
This body of work is called “Between the Stones / A Peru Portfolio” He is currently interested in exhibiting and publishing this work. These images embody his double interest for people and spaces, they respect the human identity and its integrity. They allow us once again to meet the people he meets and we warm to these exotic places and to the heart of its people. “Over the years I have been creating a variety of photographic images both in the studio and outdoors. I love to explore life through my art and if I am successful it should reflect the grand mystery of life in some way. My ideas comes to me when I open my mind and my eyes and let my true being come out. All my life I have felt a constant and endless need to express my feelings and thoughts by creating new images and works of art. My hope is that you enjoy some of what I have made. Some compositions are personal, nostalgic, and emotional; others are sensual, dark, and enigmatic.”
IceBox Gallery and Framing Link
We will also be giving away copies of SHOTS magazines
courtesy of Elizabeth Flinsch I Editor of Shots.
Elizabeth Flinsch will be speaking to us about her images as well as the magazine some time in the near future.
Book Giveaway:
At every meeting we have a book giveaway, attendees have a chance to receive our monthly book choice.
AVEDON AT WORK
Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century’s greatest photographers—but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, daringly commissioned him to do just that.
The resulting 1985 exhibition and book, In the American West, was a milestone in American photography and Avedon’s most important body of work. His unflinching portraits of oilfield and slaughterhouse workers, miners, waitresses, drifters, mental patients, teenagers, and others captured the unknown and often-ignored people who work at hard, uncelebrated jobs. Making no apologies for shattering stereotypes of the West and Westerners, Avedon said, “I’m looking for a new definition of a photographic portrait. I’m looking for people who are surprising—heartbreaking—or beautiful in a terrifying way. Beauty that might scare you to death until you acknowledge it as part of yourself.”
Photographer Laura Wilson worked with Avedon during the six years he was making In the American West. In Avedon at Work, she presents a unique photographic record of his creation of this masterwork—the first time a major photographer has been documented in great depth over an extended period of time. She combines images she made during the photographic sessions with entries from her journal to show Avedon’s working methods, his choice of subjects, his creative process, and even his experiments and failures. Also included are a number of Avedon’s finished portraits, as well as his own comments and letters from some of the subjects.
Members sharing images these months:
You are encouraged to bring prints of your current or past work to share with the group, where you can ask for comments or reviews. We are a safe place to help you grow as artists and encourage creative exploration of all kinds. Please email us before the meetings with how many images you will share and tell us if you will be presenting digital or prints. If digital, bring images on a USB drive with only your images on it. All presenters will need to come 30 minutes before the meeting for preparation time.
email to: walter@horishnyk.com or dickophoto@yahoo.com,
We will post your request below to your chosen month, Thanks
Monday, October 21st, Main Topic/Presenter : Xavier Tavera Castro
Reviewing images of: Peter Boulay and Dan Tran
Monday, November 18th, Main Topic/Presenter : Steve Ozone
Reviewing images of: Dave Heinz and Julian
Monday, December 16th, Main Topic/Presenter : Nicole Houff
Reviewing images of: Dave Heinz
Monday, January 20th, / An in depth review of Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
Monday, February 17th : Images by Howard M. Christopherson
Monday, March 17th
Monday, April 21st
Monday, May 19th
Monday, June 16th
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