For over 45 years, Loren Nelson has used a Deardorff 4X5 view camera and film to photograph, creating selenium-toned silver gelatin prints in a traditional darkroom. Recently, he has added a digital workflow, using 35mm digital cameras and an iPhone to respond more spontaneously to his surroundings. In addition to his darkroom printing, he reproduces his digital images on fine-art papers with archival pigment inks. His ongoing projects include landscapes and seascapes of the Pacific Northwest, botanicals, and Under Wraps, a series featuring plastic-wrapped buildings and landscapes. His new color portfolios include a series of trawler nets and close-up abstract studies of rust and peeling paint from the Port of Astoria Boatyard in Astoria, Oregon.

Loren Nelson’s photographs are included in many public and private collections, such as the Portland Art Museum, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Tampa, FL. He is represented by the Portland Art Museum/Rental Sales Gallery in Portland, OR; LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, OR; and Aurora Gallery in Vancouver, WA. His work has appeared in View Camera, LensWork, B&W, Shots, and Analog Forever Magazines. In 2021, he received a residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon. 

Feel free to email me at: lnelson20@frontier.com