Lori Pond

When I was 8, a friend asked me what my favorite hobby was. Without hesitation I said,

"Dreaming." I could never get enough of the technicolor movies that inhabited my

subconscious mind. Since then, I have had dreams in which I fly, die, and see colors that

don't exist outside my mind's eye. Of course this makes me ask myself, "What is my

reality?" Is it what I see with my eyes, or is it what I dream about with my mind's eye?

My photographs attempt to codify my dreams, to integrate and blur the lines between

waking and dreaming, life and death. At times I recreate a specific dream; other times I

imagine an entirely new dreamscape based upon what I see in the physical world, often

combined with ideas I bring forward. I am not concerned with depicting reality as we see

it, but instead enjoy altering reality just enough to open a window into the viewer's

imagination.

My creative process involves using both the camera and post-processing tools to paint in

light, color, texture and movement to reveal my photographic "alpha state." I print with

archival pigments and papers.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2014

Griffin Museum 20th Juried Exhibition

Boston, MA

Aline Smithson, Juror

Analogue Portrait Project (2nd Place)

Aesthesia Studios, Los Angeles, CA

Lucie Foundation Jurors

The New Baroque, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Martha Otero, Juror

Wondrous Indeed, Center for Fine Art Photography,

Ft. Collins, CO

Phil Toledano, Juror

Faces (Hon. Mention)

Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT

Elizabeth Avedon, Juror

International Photography Awards

One World: People (Hon. Mention)

Texas Photographic Society (TPS) 23:

The International Competition

Year-long traveling exhibit in Texas

Susan kae Grant, Juror

The Open Portfolio, Terra Bella Media

(Hon. Mention)

Your Daily Photograph

Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2013

Photo+Craft 2, Lightbox Photographic, Astoria, OR

Blue Mitchell, Juror

Family, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography

Kyohei Abe, Juror

B*tch Fest, Upstairs At The Market Gallery, Los

Angeles, CA

Terri Lloyd, Juror

Unseen, WUHO Gallery

Hollywood, CA

Sixteen Photographers, Julia Dean Photography Gallery

Los Angeles, CA

Images From a Glass Eye, Tehama County Visitors Center

Red Bluff, CA

Lynne Eodice, Juror

Art Directors Guild Photography Show, Gallery 800

North Hollywood, CA

2013 Center Forward, (Hon. Mention) Center for Fine Art Photography

Ft. Collins, CO

Hamidah Glasgow, Juror