About
Lashley Lopez began as a photographer, editor, and journalist in Texas in the 1990s and was published by the University of Texas Press in 2011 with her collective biography and photo book, Don’t Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country. The book is held in 628 libraries across six continents, including in the U.S., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library.
Her monograph, Life Narrated by Nature, was published by Datz Press in 2021. The book was on exhibit at the ‘Theatrum Botanicum’ at the 2021 Gwangju Design Biennale in Seoul, organized under the direction of artist Cho Kyung-jin. Life Narrated by Nature is held in collections including the New York Public Library, Stanford University Library, the University of Virginia Library and Bayerische Staattsbibliothek, München.
Lashley Lopez’ photographs have been shown in exhibits in Massachusetts, Korea, Arizona, Canada, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Vermont and California, at galleries and museums including Datz Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, Truth and Beauty Gallery, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Scott Nichols Gallery, Center for Photographic Art, PhotoPlace Gallery and A Rare Gallery. Her images have been published by newspapers and magazines, most recently by Emergence Magazine and the German newspaper Die Ziet, and by corporate clients.
Lashley Lopez’s awards and recognitions include: first place with “Romance” from Liable to Disappear in “Celebration of Light” at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel (2018); finalist with Liable to Disappear for Critical Mass (2018); honorable mentions with Liable to Disappear in three categories (Fine Art, Nature, and Alternative Processes) for the 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers (2019); shortlisted for the Hariban Award International Collotype Competition (2019); honorable mention with Liable to Disappear in Fine Art and Nature and honorable mention with Requiem for small creatures in Editorial-Environment for the IPA International Photo Awards (2019); work of merit with Liable to Disappear in the Rfotofolio Selections (2021).
Rhonda Lashley Lopez is a fine art photographer whose recent book, Life Narrated by Nature, was published by Datz Press in 2022.
Lashley Lopez utilizes traditional and contemporary printing processes — platinum/palladium, cyanotype and archival pigment — as well as gold leaf and handmade papers.
Her photographs give glimpses into her vulnerable awe and love for all of the other life on earth — and her need to protect it. In her own words:
‘In the world I imagine, we people understand we're just a small part of life on this planet, taking only what we need instead of all we can get, giving all we can so other species of flora and fauna can survive. I walk under the tree canopy, in open meadows or along streams, listening to birds and insects and coyotes and the wind and sometimes silence, smelling green, dirt, rocks, the ocean, the deer that bedded down in the leaves the night before — and I feel happy and so lucky to be here. This is how I survive the news of the day. It’s what I need, and what we all need: to open our arms to the Earth’s wonders, to wrap our hearts around the solace it offers, treading gingerly, paying attention, with gratitude.’
Past Events
2023
Sabbatical year
This was year of travel and then moving to Ireland. Although I was shooting new work, printing was on hold until I established a new studio space.
2022
March 19 - August 7
Group exhibit, For Life, at Datz Museum, Seoul
(with Amanda Marchand, Andrew Gold, Barbara Bosworth, Bryant Austin, Doug Muir, Elijah Gowin, Eliot Porter, Imogen Cunningham, Joo Myung Duck, Linda Connor, Sangyon Joo, Stephen Tourlentes, Wayne Levin and Young Suh)
March
Life Narrated by Nature, Special Edition sold out
January
Life Narrated by Nature, Special Edition published
Datz Press
2021
December 31
“Lotus blue” published in Die Ziet
with a story mentioning the passing of E.O. Wilson
November 19
Liable to Disappear images in Emergence Magazine
Accompanying articles by Lucy F. Jones and Terry Tempest Williams.
November
“Romance” in Rfotofolio Selections
(work of merit)
September 1 - October 31
Life Narrated by Nature book in the ‘Theatrum Botanicum’
at the 2021 Gwangju Design Biennale
September 2 - October 24
Life Narrated by Nature, solo exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography
Griffin Gallery (Winchester, MA); curated by Paula Tognarelli; Online artist talk
September
Life Narrated by Nature book published
Datz Press, in an edition of 100 handmade books