Lindsey Dalthorp is a fine art photographer, curator, organizer and educator based in Seattle, Washington. She works primarily with historical cameras and processes, incorporating natural elements and collected items into her works, while exploring a sense of connection with nature, time, ancestry and memory. Each photograph she makes is a conversation with time, an embodiment of the beauty and tension present between the natural and man-made worlds, and a recognition of the history present in everything around us.
Lindsey studied photography and political economy at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She spent several years studying abroad in Mexico City and Oaxaca de Juárez, receiving her Diploma of Analog Photography in Black and White from La Escuela Activa de Fotografía in Coyoacán, and working with community organizations like Fundación En Vía on issues of responsible tourism, representation, and cultural education. Her photographs have been featured for over five years in Olympia's progressive newspaper Works in Progress, and have more recently have appeared in exhibitions held by the Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, and on the walls of the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington. Lindsey has taught darkroom and mixed media photography classes at Youth in Focus for the past four years, and is currently pursuing further education at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle. She coordinates exhibitions, pubic art projects and community events for Art Forces and the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project in Olympia, Washington, in partnership with the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and other local social justice organizations.
EXHIBITIONS
August 2025 | Collective Exhibition, Quotation / Myth". Thurston County Museum of Art, Olympia, Washington.
"QUOTATION/MYTH is an examination of photographic image making in the 21st century. Through the works of 7 Washington based photographers, discover and question the stories and ideas uniquely defined by the medium of photography. Through a plethora of prints, objects, and mixed media presentations explore the nuanced and ever changing truths and fictions invented and presented by photographic images."
April 2025 | Collective Exhibition, "Labyrinths". Thurston County Museum of Art, Olympia, Washington.
Featuring works by over 28 artists working across a wide variety of mediums and exploring the symbolic and literal manifestations of the labyrinth. "The labyrinth is a symbol of mysticism and revelation dating back millennia and encourntered all over the world. A labyrinth can both represent and facilitate humanity's highest impuses: self discovery, rumination, meditation and reflexive cognition. It can also symbolize the agonizing trivality of mortality, an unrelenting march towards an inevitable end."
July 2023 | Solo Exhibition, "Solar Flare". Ridgecrest Public House in Shoreline, Washington.
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 Exhibition, Untitled (Capstone Project). 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 in 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.
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CURATORIAL
June 2025 | Redefining Home : Volume I and II
A multimedia art installation exploring the connection to land and home in Palestine and beyond, featuring original photographs by Shoshana Cohen, taken in Jenin, Palestine during the first Intifada (summer and fall 1990), and depicting the daily lives of children under Israeli occupation. Curated in collaboration with her daughter, Libi Cohen Ben-Yoar.
April 2024 | Collective Exhibition and Fundraiser for the Middle East Children's Alliance, "Art for Gaza".
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.
October 2022 | "Olympia's Hidden Histories". Held at the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington.
An exhibition of historical and contemporary photographs, as well as paintings and mixed-media pieces representing the downtown Olympia area history, as it relates to the first series of virtual walking tours of the same name. The tours were created by students at the Evergreen State College, in partnership with Art Forces and members of the community, and were sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and the Thurston County Historical Commission. Held at the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington.
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EDUCATION
In Progress | Certificate of Fine Art Photography (Alternative Processes, Large Format, Wet Plate Collodion
in the Field, History of Photography)
​June 2022 | Bachelor of Arts (Interdisciplinary Studies in Political Economy, Community Education & Media,
Latin American Studies, Spanish Language, Photography), 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
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EDITORIAL
"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. Photographs from the 8 de Marzo protest march in Oaxaca de Juárez, March 2020. Published in Works in Progress, June 2020. olywip.org
"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.
Published May 2020. lindseydalthorp.com/projects
"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. Self-Published April 2020. lindseydalthorp.com/projects
"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. Self-Published March 2020. lindseydalthorp.com/projects
"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.
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