Category: Photo Essay

On an Open Field

Portland-based poet and artist Dao Strom combines photos, text, and music in a multimedia exploration through traces of Vietnamese culture and mythology, including the music of folksinger Pham Duy and in images of herself wearing a pair of wings at historic sites in Vietnam.

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The Uranium Files

Photographer Dan Hawkins and former Washington poet laureate Kathleen Flenniken witness the toxic legacy of nuclear sites in Washington: Hawkins' obsolete process involving uranium gives his images a reddish tint; two poems from Flenniken's collection Plume shed light on radioactivity lingering in the Columbia River.

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