Capturing Time

Hall Anderson (1949- )
        Photographer

Hall Anderson first came to Southeast Alaska in the late 1970s. Here, he set up a darkroom and taught photography, first in a small fishing village and then in a logging camp. In 1984, he became a full-time staff photographer with the Ketchikan Daily News. For the first nineteen years of his career, he worked with black-and-white film in the darkroom. In 2002, when the Daily News switched to digital files, Anderson had never used a computer at work, except for sending photos to the Associated Press.

Anderson cites photography as having given him a way to get out into the community, a way of witnessing things that he ordinarily wouldn't have gotten to see. In a 2014 interview with radio host Leila Kheiry, she says "You know pretty much everybody in town," to which he replies "I believe there's a special dynamic living on an island. People are closer knit than when you've got a small town on a road system."

In workshops throughout his career, Mr. Anderson has encountered Ansel Adams, Mary Ellen Mark, and Danny Lyons. He studied at University of Oregon with Bernard Freemesser and his assistants. He retired in 2014 to devote himself to his personal work, and is currently sifting through thousands of files, slides, negatives, and undeveloped rolls of film.

Additional photographers featured in this exhibit

• Harriet Elizabeth Hunt (1865-1934)
  
• Con Giebel (1878-1965)
  
• Benjamin Alfred Haldane (1874-1941)
  
• David Nicoll (1877-1937)
  
• Alfred Milotte (1904-1989)
  
• Otto C. Schallerer (1884-1968)
  
• Paulu T. Saari (1919-2011)