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Photography West Gallery

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Photography West Gallery

Exhibiting fine art darkroom craftsmanship since 1980.

Specializing in the uncompromising classical darkroom craftsmanship that made Carmel-by-the-Sea world-famous for fine art photography, Photography West Gallery has been a sanctuary for photography since 1980. Over the past four decades, Photography West has maintained a distinctive position within the West Coast photographic discourse. The photographers we represent use medium/large format film an

d make each photograph by hand without the aid of professional labs or digital processes. Our exhibition program supports both emerging and established photographers committed to film and darkroom craftsmanship.

05/22/2026

Wishing Linda the happiest of birthdays! We are so grateful to and for you - thank you for all you do and for all that you are!!

05/13/2026

Our gallery director, Julia Christopher, walks us through Carol Henry’s exhibition, “La Petite Fleur,” on display in our main gallery until May 20th. The gallery is open to the public Wednesday - Saturday from 11am - 4:30pm. Hope to see you soon!
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05/06/2026

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Featuring Imogen Cunningham’s iconic portrait of Frida Kahlo, painter and wife of Diego Rivera, taken in 1931 when Frida was just 24 years old.
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03/21/2026

We are thrilled to announce the opening of Carol Henry’s exhibition at the gallery, “La Petite Fleur,” featuring a reception with the artist next Saturday, March 28th, from 3-5pm! Hope to see you then!!
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Inspired after viewing the floral paintings of Georgia O’Keefe, Carol Henry worked well over a decade to develop a unique photographic technique that would allow her to explore the internal spirit and essence of flowers. As a child, she says her fascination with organic design was mesmerizing. It was this passion that fueled her continued exploration while pursuing studies towards her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In the college darkroom, surrounded by snow much of the year, she discovered a way to reproduce the warmth and beauty of her subject by projecting light through the cells of the flower directly onto archival Ilfochrome (formerly Cibachrome) photographic paper. What appeared was complete purity, without distortion or grain – the simple radiant delicacy of the flower itself. Without using either camera or film Henry had developed a truly extraordinary technique that would shape the rest of her three-decade photographic career. Because no film is involved in her photographic process and the flowers can withstand only a single exposure, each “Florachome” is a one-of-a-kind work.
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03/08/2026

In celebration of Women’s History month, we are currently featuring an exhibition of our female artists spanning over a century. Ranging from the luminous bodies of Ruth Bernhard, to the powerful portraits of Imogen Cunningham and Dorothea Lange, unique “Florachromes” by Carol Henry and Julia Brett Christopher’s landscape and narrative series, La Voyeuse. The exhibition will be on display in our main gallery until March 19, 2026. Carol Henry’s solo exhibition, “La Petite Fleur,” opens on March 20th and we hope you can join us for her artist reception on March 28th from 3-5pm.
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Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
(Open by Appointment Sunday - Tuesday)

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02/28/2026

We are excited to announce our next upcoming exhibition and artist reception on March 28th from 3-5pm with Carol Henry. The exhibition “La Petite Fleur” features her unique 11x15” cameraless Florachrome photographs.
Inspired after viewing the floral paintings of Georgia O’Keefe, Carol Henry worked well over a decade to develop a unique photographic technique that would allow her to explore the internal spirit and essence of flowers. As a child, she says her fascination with organic design was mesmerizing. It was this passion that fueled her continued exploration while pursuing studies towards her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Confined in the college darkroom one afternoon, due to a howling blizzard, she discovered a way to reproduce the warmth and beauty of her subject by projecting light through the cells of the flower directly onto archival Ilfochrome (formerly Cibachrome) paper. What appeared was complete purity, without distortion or grain – the simple radiant delicacy of the flower itself. Without using either camera or film Henry had developed a truly extraordinary technique that would shape the rest of her three-decade photographic career. Because no film is involved in her photographic process and the flowers can withstand only a single exposure, each “Florachome” is a one-of-a-kind work.
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Image: 11x15” Florachrome, “Estella,” by Carol Henry. All rights reserved.
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02/13/2026

Celebrating Valentine’s Day weekend with this lovely new arrival from Alexey Titarenko, “Flatiron Building, Couple, New York.” Each spot-toned gelatin silver is handmade by the artist from 6x6 format film in an edition of 15. If you are in Carmel, the gallery will be open today through Sunday from 11am - 4:30pm and we look forward to seeing you soon!
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02/07/2026

Our Ruth Bernhard exhibition, “Luminous Bodies,” will be on display in our main gallery until March 15th and features this 11x14” gelatin silver, “Angel Wing, 1943.” The gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday from 11am - 4:30pm and Sundays from 12-4:30pm. Hope to see you soon!
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01/22/2026

We are pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, “Ruth Bernhard: Luminous Bodies,” will be on display in the gallery February 6 - March 15, 2026. The exhibition includes this historical vintage original gelatin silver photograph, individually handmade by Ruth Bernhard in 1934 from 8x10 format Kodak sheet film.
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The daughter of graphic designer, Lucien Bernhard, Ruth Bernhard 1905-2006) studied art history and typography in Berlin, immigrated to the United States in 1927 and began photographing in 1930. Self-taught in photography, she claimed the most important influences on her work were Edward Weston, the poet Ranier Maria Rilke, Michelangelo and Auguste Rodin. Like Weston, she photographed natural forms in the sharp f/64 style, focusing her lens on the softness of light, shadow and shape, rather than softness of focus like their Pictorialist
predecessors. Ruth once wrote: “My photographs are the result of intense reaction to my daily experiences. I do not wish to record, but to search for the elusive fragments of meaning according to my perceptiveness and awareness of the universe. Is a blade of grass not as miraculous as the firmament and of equal value? Life and death are two words for the same thing - all part of the living order, the illumination of which leads to the underlying philosophy of the creative artists in eery medium” (The Photograph as
Poetry, Pasadena Art Museum exhibition catalog, 1960). Ruth Bernhard’s work can be found in most major museum collections throughout the world, including the George Eastman House, Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Her photographs have been shown internationally in major exhibitions and have also been widely published. In 1986, Photography West published an acclaimed monograph of her nudes entitled, The Eternal Body (1986), which received Photography Book of the Year from Friends of Photography and brought Bernhard widespread acclaim.
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01/14/2026

Highway 1 has finally reopened! If you have yet to experience the majesty of the drive from Cambria to Carmel, it is well worth it.
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Featuring Roman Loranc’s iconic sepia and selenium toned gelatin silver, “Bixby Bridge,” individually handmade by the artist from 4x5 film.
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Dolores/1 South Of Ocean Avenue
Carmel, CA
93921

Opening Hours

Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm

Telephone

(831) 625-1587

Website

http://www.photographywest.com/

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