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Monday, March 18, 2024
March 18, 2024

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Photography project crosses oceans, borders

The Columbian
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Skye Hwang's work was featured in the Taiwanese magazine DPI in September.
Skye Hwang's work was featured in the Taiwanese magazine DPI in September. Photo Gallery

Vancouver photographer Bob Byrd traveled to Pilar, Paraguay, this summer to visit his son in the Peace Corps, and he turned the trip into a working vacation. Byrd, who teaches photography at Hudson’s Bay High School and through Clark College’s Community Education program, decided to involve students in Vancouver and Pilar in a cross-cultural photography exchange.

Byrd, 59, had his Hudson’s Bay students provide a list of people, places and things in Pilar they’d like to see in photos. Then he loaned high school students in Pilar cameras, gave them photography lessons and sent them out to capture their daily life.

“They were very enthusiastic, and it was very interesting, the comparison between what they decided to take pictures of and what the Vancouver students did,” Byrd said, noting that the students in Pilar took pictures of family more than their American counterparts did.

The photos are part of an exhibit on display at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Vancouver, 4505 E. 18th St. The show runs through the end of the month. There’s an opening reception from 7 to 9 tonight.

Lapellah whips up Thanksgiving meals

Dave Mork, executive chef and owner of Lapellah in Vancouver, and his staff spent the early hours of Thanksgiving Day preparing turkey dinners for 12 families — a total of 72 meals.

Lapellah worked with the Clark County Food Bank, which turned to the Salvation Army and YWCA Safechoice domestic violence support program to identify the families to receive the meals. Some of the families are recovering from domestic violence, while others have endured a long period of unemployment.

The meal included wood-oven roasted turkey, mushroom stuffing, fresh cranberry sauce, roasted yams, green beans with white cheddar cheese sauce and fried shallots, buttermilk mashed potatoes with gravy, parker house rolls and pumpkin pie. Lapellah’s staff delivered the meals to the 12 families’ homes.

Lapellah, part of a family of restaurants that includes 360 Pizzeria and Roots Restaurant and Bar, opened in December 2008.

“We feel so fortunate that the community supports our restaurants, our passion for local produce and our seasonal menu,” said Mork, 34, a Camas resident. “We wanted to do something to give back.”

Magazine publishes painter’s work

Skye Hwang jokes that she is a starving artist. “I need to have a job to pay the mortgage,” said the 35-year-old Vancouver resident, who was born in South Korea. She spends her days working as an ad designer at The Columbian. She devotes her evenings — two or three hours most days — to her oil paintings. She blends the two-dimensional landscapes with three-dimensional female figures, bringing Eastern and Western artistic traditions together.

Her work, posted on her Web site at skyehwang.com, caught the attention of DPI magazine in Taiwan, which published a four-page spread on Hwang in September. The magazine also featured an interview with Hwang, in which she explained why her work focuses on the female form: “I love to look at female figures and faces, and observe the details in each one that makes them unique.”

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