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Welcome to Linda Wada's Photography Gallery When I first started college, my real interest was in music and writing. While I had talent for music, my writing was more of a dream, for I always had trouble with writing, but never knew the source of my difficulties. It was during this time I learned I had dyslexia, which explained the problems I was having with writing. After being told by English teachers to basically find something else to do, I decided to take a class in Black and White photography at my local college. And over time I found myself spending more time on a great adventure in the photo lab. I started studying photography in the fall of 1978 at the College of Southern Idaho. I worked as a photo lab assistant under the work study program started by President Carter. I studied there for two years and worked my way to earning a scholarship into the Sun Valley Art Center program in the summer of 1980 in Sun Valley, Idaho. In the fall of 1982, I married my husband Wesley Wada, who was the Photography professor at CSI and from whom I first learned photography. In the summer of 1983 we decided to spend our summers on the road and packed up the van and traveled full time for three months each summer for the next nine years. Most of the black and white scenics come from that period. During the school year, I worked for the Public Relations Office at the college. In my free time I worked on creative photo series that appeared in various photography shows in the west. In the 1990's, we moved to Bend, Oregon where my photography work continued in Public Relations for newspapers and commercial businesses. Today, most of my photography is for our company WadaWorks, private clients and personal projects. As for writing, I decided to forget what those English teachers said, and really started to work head on with writing the last few years. With the help of my husband and a few very special people, I have been doing all of the writing for my Edna Purviance web site. While my husband does help with the editing, I do all the research, writing and web work on the site. I find the best way to deal with dyslexia is to tackle it head on. But I also know I would have not gotten this far without the special encouragement from a few very special people. Below is a list of photography shows my work appeared in during the 1980's and some of the various photography projects done over the years. Since there is still interest and links in the old gallery site I will leave that site up. Here is the link to the Old Gallery Site. It does have different pictures and comments. |
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Photography Art Show Years - 1979 - 1991 |
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| 1979 Honorable Mention |
International Photo Exhibition (Juried) Sam Huston State Unverisity |
| 1979 Best of Show |
Paper Works II Biennial (Juried Regional) College of Southern Idaho - photo entry |
| 1980 Best of Show |
Twin Falls Library Photography Exhibition (Juried) Twin Falls, Idaho - creative photo |
| 1981 Idaho State Show |
Idaho Biennial (Juried State Show) Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho - photography |
| 1983 Local |
Sunspot Gallery (invitation one artist show) College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho |
| 1985 Invitational |
Sunspot Gallery (invitation two-person show) Summer Residents I College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho |
| 1986 Invitational |
Sunspot Gallery (invitation two-person show) Summer Residents II College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho |
| 1986 State Show |
Mind's Eye Gallery - (one-artist show) Idaho State Unverisity, Pocatello, Idaho |
| 1988 Third Place |
National Junior College Paragon Awards and Exhibition Nationwide College Public Relations - Third Place in Color Photography |
| 1989 Invitational |
Nine Idaho Photographers State Show - Boise State University Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho |
| 1989 Invitational |
Sunspot Gallery (one-artist show) "Photographs from the Commercial/Industrial Zone" College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho |
| 1989 Juried Regional |
Mountain States Biennial Nora Eccles Museum, Utah State University, Logan, Utah |
| 1989 Juried State |
Photographic Visions - Statewide Show Idaho Centennial Traveling Exhibition |
| 1990 Juried State |
Spirit of the West - (special designed traveling show) Idaho Centennial Traveling Exhibition (State of Idaho) |
| 1990 Juried Regional |
Art Zone Jewish Community Center Gallery, Denver, Colorado |
| 1990 Juried Regional |
Big Sky Biennial VI Davis Gallery, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho |
| 1990 Juried State |
Idaho Centennial Biennial Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho |
| 1991 Invitational |
15th Annual Exhibition (Group Invitational) University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon |
| 1991 International (Juried) |
Magic Silver Show University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa |
| 1991 Invitational |
Utah State University (two-person invitational show) Utah State University, Logan, Utah |
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Special Photography Projects and Work |
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| 1978 -1991 College Photo Lab |
Darkroom Assistant With President Jimmy Carter's work/study program, I was able to go to college. It allowed me to study photography while helping the college program. I started as a photo lab assistant in late 1978 and kept the job of managing the lab as Public Relation Photographer for the college until spring of 1991. The job only paid up to one hour below full time, but I worked many 72-hour weeks, and even 100-hour weeks. The trade off was having all the college holidays and summers off, which helped with the long hours during the year. |
| 1979 - 1980 Open Space |
Open Space The first alternative newspaper I can remember being published in Twin Falls, Idaho. I worked as part of the photo staff and paste-up crew. (This was before personal computers and layout programs.) Remember Letraset? |
| 1980 Duck Valley Project |
Duck Valley Indian Reservation Project Sole project printer for exhibition and publication on the verbal and visual history of the Shoshone-Paiute tribes. Under direction of Ellen Manchester, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho. All prints were made from 4x5 negatives into 24x17 inch archival prints. |
| 1980's Making the Mask |
Making the Mask Special museum booklet photography project for the Herrett Museum, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho. |
| 1983-1991 Public Relations |
CSI Official Public Relations Photographer Photographer for College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho. Included all sport team photos for annual basketball program (some published in USA Today), all college publications that included slide shows and statewide and national publications for the college. I did all developing and printing of black and white work. Plus hundreds of projects large and small over the years for all the programs connected with the school. |
| 1980's | Times News and Regional newspapers Working for a college, I was involved with many college and personal projects for individuals that were published in the local and regional newspapers in Idaho and in the intermountain west. |
| 1990's Bend View |
Bend View Photographer Photographer for the Bend View, local upstart newspaper in Bend, Oregon in the early 1990's. I had several cover photos and many stories during my time at the newspaper. |
| 1990's Cascade Business News |
Cascade Business News Photographer Local business newspaper for Bend, Oregon. Included photos for stories, articles, ads and events in color slides and black and white prints. |
| 1998 CFM |
Cascade Festival of Music Official Photographer for 1998 local music event in Bend, Oregon. Full coverage from the scheduled musical program to all behind the scenes events and special parties. |
| 1990's - 2000's Oregonian |
Various Stories for Oregonian Photos used for full page stories including coast nature hiking vacations and snowshoeing. |
| 2000's - current | Various Projects in Western U.S. and overseas Includes commercial photo website work for North Platte Lodge (Wyoming), Sugar Creek Ranch (California), Inside Angler (California), Iron Gardens (Oregon) and a research project in the United Kingdom. Link to United Kingdom Tour. Includes photos taken by Wesley Wada. |
| 2004 - current | Bend Living Photos used for stories, including the latest Bend Centennial issue, A Century of History. (1905-2005) |
| 2000 - current Edna Purviance |
Edna Purviance Research Project (Charlie Chaplin's leading lady) Photographing her home and other locations in the west and overseas for ednapurviance.org - a website and research project to find the history of silent film star Edna Purviance. (see contact page for link to Edna's site) Also, check out the Chaplin Library for a look at Chaplin books from around the world. From the collection of Dominique Dugros. |
| Other Creative interest | Other interest over the years Music and drawing were my first real interests growing up. I never had the real talent to make it in drawing, but I thought I might had a bit of a chance in music. But during my childhood years, I had no support for either. Today, computer software programs create an exciting option for would-be musicians. This is a link to my new found interest in music using garageband. Music creating with Apple's GarageBand Drawing is something I have just tried to get back into recently. I hope to share some later, but for people interested in drawing and especially illustration, like for comics, here is a link to my favorite site. Created by the very talented UK artist Garen Ewing, it showcases his comic book work and has links page to other fine artists in the field. Rainbow Orchid Garen introducted me to something exciting called RadioPods. Here is a link to find Garen's Radiopod cast in the UK. A very enjoyable new way to learn about new music, as well as old favorites and forgotten tunes. |
| Materials and Equipment used during the 1980's |
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| Cameras and Film | Cameras Most of the pictures taken during the 1980's were with 35mm, 2-1/4 medium format and 4x5 view cameras. Films and Photo Paper Films used for the pictures included Ilford FP4, llford Pan-F, Kodak Tri-X, Kodachrome and Kodak Infrared 50. All the exhibit prints were printed on Seagull Oriental and all the commercial projects on llford RC Graded papers. Note: From England, Ilford has been the standard for the best in Black and White films, chemicals, and papers. Sadly, this company that is over 100 years old, is sounding like will be leaving the traditional film and paper business. Other companies are leaning toward this end, as well, as less people use film. I will certainly miss all the fine Ilford B&W products I have used... - Sept. 1, 2004 |
Special thanks to the people I known over the years: Wesley Wada, Mary Eisel, Garen and Elyssa Ewing, Dominique and Emeline Dugros, Paul Slaney, Stephen and Barbara Burstin, Peter Jewell, Rita Eberle, JoAnn Cordis, Dave and Aleta Nissen, Ann Nora Kurger, Max and Nila Peel, Annette Jenkins (CSI Public Relations 1980's), Michele Halderman, Brian Chitwood (Bend View early 1990's), Ellen Manchester (Sun Valley Art Center 1980), Pamela Andrews (Cascade Business News mid-1990's), Mr. and Mrs. Walton (who were the first people I met who used a 35mm camera with a light meter). Once again, special thanks to Wes Wada for his editing help. |
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