Featured Artist

RON HAMMOND

We are pleased to feature photographs by Ron Hammond in the January-March 2025 exhibit with the theme “Spying on a Memory” on the Burien Arts Gallery Wall, Highline Heritage Museum, 819 SW 152nd Street, Burien, WA.

“Like my heroes the great humanist photographers, I am much more interested in people  and their everyday lives than in spec­tacular places or momentous events,” Ron said. “One of these heroes,  Robert Doisneau, described himself as a “fisherman of images”.  I like the metaphor of patiently waiting with baited camera at an interesting time and place.”

Ron has been actively photographing for over 50 years, full time since retiring from a long career in scientific software and control systems. The photos in the exhibit span 20 years.

Most of Ron’s work “organizes into loosely–defined, open-ended, projects that are seldom finished but often stop in interesting places for a show or a hand-made or published book,” he said.

Largely self-taught, Ron has formally studied photography at the Keenan Center for the Arts (Lockport NY), Bellevue Community College, Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle), the Coupeville Center for the Arts and privately with Russell Drisch (Buffalo, NY) and Nick Hansen (Seattle).

Individual photographs have appeared in the Seattle PI, the Seattle Times, the Buffalo NY Evening News, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times.

Ron’s photos have been seen widely in books and exhibits, including:

Published Books:

Forgotten But Not Gone (with poet Judith Skillman)

The Last Human Freedom (with historian Doris Bean)

Regular Customer: 50 years at the Market

The Face of the Market

Collections:

Museum of History and Industry (Seattle)

Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center

Pike Place Market Foundation (Seattle)

Bowerbird Foundation (Philadelphia)

Walker Center for the Arts (Minneapolis)

Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

Woodford County (Illinois) Historical Museum

Several private collections

Solo Shows:

Federal Way Art Commission Gallery, 2023

Highline Heritage Museum, 2021

Edmonds Arts Commission Gallery, Edmonds, 2022,2005

City of Burien Community Center,2019, 2023

Hallie’s Loft, Seattle, 2008

Shoreline Arts Center, Shoreline,2 07

Helen S. Smith Gallery, Green River Community College, 2007

Old Redmond School House Gallery, Redmond, 2006

City of Covington Arts Commission Gallery, Covington, 2006

City of Auburn Arts Commission Gallery, Auburn, 2006

ArtsWest, Seattle, 2005

Lynnwood Arts Commission Gallery, Lynnwood, 2006

Kent Arts Commission Gallery, Kent,2005

The Fireplace Gallery, Mt. Hood CC, Gresham, OR, 2002

Benham Gallery, Seattle, 1994

Market Place Photo, Seattle, 1992

Eureka Illinois Public Library, Eureka, IL, 1991

Grand Central Bakery, Burien, 2021

Saltwater Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery, 2018

RE/MAX, West Seattle Art Walk, 2015

Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery 2015, 2015

Northlake Unitarian Church Gallery, 2009

Essential Baking Company, Seattle, 2006

Lombardi’s Restaurant, Ballard, 2005

Wallingford Community Office, Seattle, 2003

Frame Central, Seattle, 2003

The Grateful Bread, Seattle, 2001

Hopvine Café, Seattle, 2000

Pogacha Restaurant, Issaquah, 1999

Sprinkles Café, Seattle, 1999

The Corner House, Seattle,1993

Coyote Coffee Company, Kirkland, 1993

Selected Multi-Artist Shows:

Clarridge Gallery of Photography, 00, through 2015

Aljoya, Mercer Island, 2011

Larson Gallery, Yakima, 2010

Cascades Academy of Photography, Issaquah, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002

Issaquah Gallery, Issaquah, 2003

Kirkland Gallery, Kirkland, 2003

East Shore Gallery, 08 (invited), 06 (invited), 2002, 1999,19 97

ColorGraphics, Seattle, 2001

Artemis Gallery, Seattle,2000

Barnes & Noble Books, Issaquah, 1998, 1999

Pogacha Restaurant, Bellevue, 1998

The Backstage, Seattle, 1990

Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, 1990

Selected Juried Shows:

10x10x10 Tieton WA, 2022

Newspace for Photography, 2016

Mercer Island Art Council, 2015

Seattle City Panorama, 2015

Perfect Exposure, Los Angeles, 2015

University House, Issaquah, 2015

Aljoya, Mercer Island, 2011

Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, Oregon, 2011,2015,2016
28mm, (www.28mm.org),2005, 2004

Cascades Academy of Photography, Issaquah, 2005, 2004,2003, 2002, 2002

TheSight (www.thesight.com), 2002, 1999

Bellevue Arts Commission Bellevue, 2001, 2001

Phinney Center, Seattle, 2001

Larson Gallery Photography Exhibition,
Yakima, 2015, 2001, 2000, 1999

East Shore Gallery, (invited), Bellevue, 2000, 1997

Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle,2000

Blue Horse Gallery, Bellingham, 1999

Benham Gallery, Seattle,1993

For more on Ron, visit https://www.ronfstop.com/

All photos on display at the Museum are for sale by the photographer.

 

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