Image by Elaine Heron Selected by PhotoPlace Gallery
Ellen Gilkerson | Published on 1/14/2023
PACC member Elaine Heron’s image, Haunted Hospital, was selected for inclusion in the Portals: Windows, Mirrors and Doors exhibition at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont. The exhibition will take place January 26 through February 24.
The call for entry solicited images that use portals in intriguing ways, a portal being an architectural feature – a gate, a doorway, a window, a mirror, or a tunnel – that frames or isolates or adds a new dimension to the image; or in a fictional sense, a magical doorway that connects two locations in space or time. The juror was Laura Moya, director of Photolucida in Portland, Oregon.
Haunted Hospital will appear in the Exhibition Gallery. Elaine tells the interesting back story about the hospital and its town: The image was made in the town of Kolmanskop in Namibia in July 2022. This small town was home to the workers at a thriving diamond mine, but was abandoned in the late 1920s when the diamonds were almost completely mined and another deposit was discovered nearby. My image was made in the town hospital. There are many other interesting areas in this ghost town and I highly recommend a visit. You may have seen pictures of rooms with brightly colored walls and sand dunes in them—those are likely from the same place.
Elaine Heron:
Haunted Hospital