LINDSEY DALTHORP
DOCUMENTARY & FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER
BASED IN SEATTLE, WA
Lindsey Dalthorp is a photographer and artist based in Seattle, Washington. She grew up surrounded by the dense forests and abundant marinas of the Pacific Northwest, where the local trees watched her grow and the pebbles on the beaches know her secrets. Exploring this sense of connection with nature and history are recurring themes in her art. She works primarily with historical cameras and processes, incorporating natural elements and collected items into her work to embody the histories present in everything around us.
Lindsey studied photography and political economy at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and received her diploma of black and white film photography at La Escuela Activa de Fotografía in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Her photographs have been featured for over five years in Olympia's progressive newspaper Works in Progress, and have appeared on the walls of the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, as well as local cafés and pubs. She currently teaches photography at Youth in Focus in Seattle, Washington, while attending courses in Large Format Photography and Alternative Processes at the Photographic Center Northwest. Additionally, she coordinates projects of Art Forces and the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project in Olympia, Washington.
EDITORIALS
"Juntas Somos Todas / Together We Are All: International Women's Day Protests in Mexico & the continued issue
of domestic violence during Coronavirus lockdowns", by Amanda Zavala and Lindsey Dalthorp. Published in Works in Progress, June 2020. Photographs from the 8 de Marzo protest march in Oaxaca City, March 2020.
"Vida Nueva: Creating opportunities for Zapotec Women through tradition, education & community", Teotitlán
del Valle, Oaxaca". Photographs from Alternatives & Resistance to Global Capitalism: Mexico, U.S. & beyond, study abroad with the Evergreen State College, in Oaxaca & Chiapas, Mexico, Spring 2018. Self-published May 2020.
"Wind, Breath, Sacred Life Force: Spanish wind farms on indigenous land", Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca.
Photographs from Alternatives & Resistance to Global Capitalism: Mexico, U.S. & beyond, study abroad with the Evergreen State College, in Oaxaca & Chiapas, Mexico, Spring 2018. Published April 2020.
"Ecosta Yuyu Cuii: Ecological conservation & community development on the Oaxacan coast", Río Grande,
Oaxaca. Photographs from Alternatives & Resistance to Global Capitalism: Mexico, U.S. & beyond, study abroad with the Evergreen State College, in Oaxaca & Chiapas, Mexico, Spring 2018. Published March 2020.
"Anti-fracking activists and anarchists are blocking rail tracks in Olympia", article by Kyle Swenson, photographs
by Lindsey Dalthorp. Published November 29, 2017, by The Washington Post.
EXHIBITIONS
April 2024 | "Art for Gaza" Collective Exhibition and Fundraiser for the Middle East Children's Alliance, Held at the
Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington. The exhibition called attention to the sister-city relationship between Olympia and Rafah, in Gaza, Palestine, by exhibiting the work of artists from both locations, harnessing the power of art to draw connections across great geographic, cultural, linguistic, and experiential borders.
July 2023 | Solo Exhibition, "Solar Flare". An exhibition of wet cyanotype sun prints evoking the opposing elements of
fire and water, which simultaneously give us life and hold the power to destroy it, and both play an important role in the natural disasters we are beginning to experience due to climate change. Cyanotype as a medium perfectly represents that point of tension between the natural and the man-made worlds.
June 2022 | Solo Graduation Exhibition, Untitled. Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington.
A celebration of the photographic work I created during my time as an Undergraduate student at the Evergreen State College, which included countless trips back-and-forth between Olympia and Oaxaca, Mexico. The photographs and collected artworks included in the exhibition each held an important story or aspect of my learning, and the exhibition as a whole was my way of honoring the individuals and communities who supported and influenced my education along the way.
May 2017 | Solo Exhibition, "A Border of Tulips". Burial Grounds Cafe, Olympia, Washington. An exhibition of
photographs from my first study abroad trip to Oaxaca and Chiapas, México, shown beside images of my hometown of Olympia. As I was attempting to reconcile within myself at the time, the exhibition merged the experiences of two very different parts of the world, drawing connections across borders of geography, language, and culture. The title makes reference to an example given in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary description of the uses of the word "border": one is a barrier that separates land, people, and societies, often militarized and weaponized by governments to control the movement of people and goods, while the other refers to a boundary, or edge, such as a border of flowers around a garden.
CURATORIAL
April 2024 | "Art for Gaza" Exhibition and Fundraiser for the Middle East Children's Alliance. Held at the Art Forces
Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington. Sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, and the Brotherhood Lounge. The exhibition called attention to the sister-city relationship between Olympia, Washington and Rafah, Gaza, Palestine, established after the death of Rachel Corrie, by exhibiting the work of artists from both locations.
October 2022 | "Olympia's Hidden Histories" Exhibition of historical and contemporary photographs of the downtown
Olympia area, as they relate to the first series of the virtual walking tours of the same name. Held at the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington.
EDUCATION
July 2024 | (anticipating course completion) Wet Plate Collodion in the Field, workshop at the Photographic Center
Northwest, Seattle, Washington
June 2024 | (anticipating course completion) Large Format Photography, certificate course at the Photographic Center
Northwest, Seattle, Washington
June 2022 | Bachelor of Arts (Interdisciplinary Studies in...), the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
June 2019 | Diploma of Black and White Film Photography, La Escuela Activa de Fotografía, Coyoacán, Mexico City
June 2017 | Art, Humanities, Early Childhood Education, South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia,
Washington