Role: Photographer

Christine Dong is a Vietnamese-American photographer documenting the many shapes of the human experience through food, family and culture. Dong lives in Portland or with her camera and two canines. Her work can be found at christinedong.com.

So-Min Kang is a German photographer of South Korean descent, residing in Portland, Oregon, since 2016. With a background in photo design from Lette Verein in Berlin, she found true joy in portrait and storytelling photography, capturing her surroundings with a photojournalistic touch. So-Min’s talent has garnered recognition, including a nomination for the Hansel-Mieth-Preis and continuous editorial engagements with German and Portland-based magazines. Beyond photography, she’s a passionate ceramicist and shares her life with her husband, violinist Tomas Cotik, and their daughter Yuni in the heart of SE Portland. Learn more at sominkangphotography.com.

Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer living in Portland. Lommasson received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his first book, “Shadow Boxers.” Lommasson’s next book “Oaks Park Pentimeno: Hidden Treasures Revealed” is about paintings on the Oaks Park carousel. Lommasson’s “Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan” is about American Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Lommasson “What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization” is a storytelling project with Iraqi and Syrian refugees. “What We Carried” was exhibited at the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration in 2019. Lommasson’s exhibition “Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory” about genocide and Holocaust survivors created in cooperation with the Illinois Holocaust Museum. Lommasson’s recent exhibition, “Stories of Survival and Remembrance: A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention” was exhibited at the United Nations in NYC in the Spring of 2023. Learn more at jimlommassonphotographer.blogspot.com.