Cindy Stokes’ paper wall sculpture Mind Garden is exhibited in the show  Pulp-Paper-Book, juried by Barbara Kibbe, at Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Sebastopol, CA.

This  exhibition features the work of book makers, pulp wranglers, papermakers and printmakers, highlighting all forms of printmaking and pulp manipulation. Paper is one of the oldest forms of artistic medium–from parchment to books to vellum to wood products, and humans print on every surface and make inks from everything on earth.  Many expressions of these processes are featured in Pulp-Paper-Book.

The exhibition runs March 14-May 3, 2026

Pulp-Paper-Book
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Sebastopol, CA
https://www.sebarts.org/exhibits 

Ari Salomon will present his project Burn Line as a solo exhibition in Kyoto this spring as part of KG+, the official satellite program of KYOTOGRAPHIE.

The exhibition was selected for the 2nd GOJO+ Award, a juried recognition highlighting work that engages with the theme of fire—an idea deeply connected to the Gojo district’s history of ceramics production and cremation practices.

Burn Line is an ongoing body of work responding to the Los Angeles wildfires. The project combines photographs made in fire-affected landscapes with “pyrotypes”—images engraved into wood and transformed into charcoal through controlled burning. Many of the works originate from photographs shared by individuals who lost personal belongings in the fires, embedding personal histories directly into the material process.

The installation will be presented in the meditation room at Nohga Hotel Kiyomizu Kyoto, where Salomon will construct a skeletal house structure to hold the work. This architectural framework echoes the domestic spaces referenced in the images, creating a dialogue between memory, loss, and physical transformation.

Together, the photographs and pyrotypes explore how images persist through destruction, positioning photography not only as a tool for documentation but as a medium shaped by elemental forces.

Exhibition Details

Burn Line
Nohga Hotel Kiyomizu Kyoto (Meditation Room)
April 18 – May 17, 2026
Open daily, 11:00–17:00

Event

Meeting Point Discussion
May 3, 2:00–3:00 PM
Gojo Green Tea Stand (next to the hotel)

Map showing the BAPC group exhibition and Ari’s solo exhibition: 

More information, including events listings 

• AriSalomon.com
• Ari’s Instagram
• KGplus

5 Members at KG+ 2026 “Luminous”

Bay Area Photographers Collective (BAPC) is proud to share that five of our members will be exhibiting in “Luminous: Lighting the Way” as part of KG+ 2026 in Kyoto, Japan. This is the third time BAPC has participated in the festival.

Presented in collaboration with SAMURAI FOTO, the exhibition brings together 13 Japanese photographers and 5 artists from BAPC in an international exchange centered on photography’s relationship to light.

The participating BAPC members are: Ari Salomon, Gene Dominique, Henry Bowles, Ingo Bork, and Rusty Weston

Curated by Deborah Klochko, former Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego (2006–2023), Luminous explores light not only as a technical foundation of photography, but as a cultural, emotional, and philosophical force.

Drawing from photography’s linguistic roots — photos (light) and graphen (to write) — the exhibition considers how artists “write with light” to reveal insight, illuminate the unseen, and shape perception. Works are organized into thematic strands including Literal Light, Enlightenment & Insight, Light on the Unseen, and Beauty in Simplicity.

This exhibition marks the second chapter in a five-year, five-part curatorial series examining contemporary photographic practice across cultures. 

Exhibition Details

Venue: Dohjidai Gallery (1928 Building), Kyoto (map)
Dates: April 21 – May 3, 2026
Hours: 12:00–19:00 (Final day until 17:00)
Opening Reception: April 22, 5–7pm

More information: samurai-foto.jp & kgplus.kyotographie.jp (we are exhibition #130 on the festival map)

BAPC is honored to participate in this international dialogue and to strengthen ongoing relationships between Bay Area and Japanese photographic communities.

Allyson is among the participating artists in Los Angeles Center of Photography’s photographic incubator Reservoir that opens this month at their Downtown Los Angeles headquarters.

Opening Reception

Thursday, January 29, 2026, 6pm to 8pm @ LACP, 252 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

Exhibition Run Dates

Thursday, January 29, 2026 – Saturday, March 14, 2026 @ LACP, 252 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

Reservoir, a new photographic generator by LACP, offers a shared repository of responses to the global crisis of loneliness through visual storytelling. Over 40 artists and mentors that represent a wide array of geographies, approaches, ages, nationalities and lived experiences, create new work and creative response that will be featured in a publication and traveling exhibition that will launch at LACP’s DTLA gallery.

Allyson Ely’s series A Place Out of Time that was recently featured in Rfotofolio.