Guest Curator, Philip H. Red Eagle is a born and raised Northwest writer, artist, metal smith and carver. He is the author of Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior's Journey: styled in mythical realism and now in 2nd Edition (saltpublishing.com). He is also the originator and a cofounder of The Raven Chronicles: A Journal of Art, Literature & The Spoken Word (1991-Present), currently based in Seattle. The Raven Chronicles is now 27 years old. Philip is an "occasional poet" who, these days, spends most of his time working with Tribal Journeys, a cultural movement using the canoe as a vessel for cultural renewal.
"I began shooting with a small 35 mm Canon while In-Country Vietnam back in 1971. I had purchased a Canon QL rangefinder at the Cholon Exchange in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). Later, when back in the fleet in '72 and '73, I purchased a Canon F-1, a 35 mm SLR camera, while in Japan. Once back in the states and stationed in San Diego I began taking photography classes at night at San Diego City College. I came to the University of Washington in 1976 and continued my education and continued to improve my camera expertise moving to professional levels in the '80s in photo-journalism and shooting headshots and doing model portfolios and ad photography. I moved to gallery level photography in the early '90s. Currently, I have started digitizing my old slides and black & white film and I am now shooting with a Sony digital camera."
