The PA Association for Sustainable Agriculture is mounting an exhibit of photographs of PA small farms farm products and farmers, their families, their crops and livestock, the ups and downs of feeding us all with locally-produced food. Photographers interested in participating in such an exhibit, to take place between 3 and 9 February 2008 in State College PA at the annual PASA Conference, are urged to contact Donald L. Gibbon (dongibbon@earthlink.net) and express that interest. Don is curating the show, which at this point is seen as being projected continuously during the Conference rather than hung on the wall as prints. He would like to see your photographic resume and a couple of jpeg examples of your work. If you have no images at the moment, he encourages you to use this growing season to develop a suitable portfolio. Some 3000 people attend the Conference so your work will get a good showing. Some form of jurying may be arranged. Assistance at curating the show would be welcome. You may call Don at 412-362-8451 and see some of his work at www.donaldlgibbonphotography.com. Exhibit details will be developed as more becomes known about who would like to participate. Anticipate a deadline for images to be in in CD form about mid-December, 2007.

The foregoing notice has been published in several places, seeking other photographers to participate in an exhibit at the PA Association for Sustainable Agriculture Conference, held annually in State College, PA, in late January or early February. The Conference is a gathering of all kinds of people interested in small-scale farming, the opposite of industrial agriculture. These include, of course, the farmers themselves and their families, but also politicians, academics, gardeners, conservationists, dealers in seeds and implements... the works. It's a time of joyful sharing, of good feeling, of commitment to lofty goals. Our photography will grace a high-quality gathering and make it that much better.

My model for the exhibit was a superb show at the National Geographic HQ in Washington DC, where 12 Geographic staffers had about 20 of their images back-projected in a large darkened booth. They were shown with a voice-over by each photographer, talking about their work (We won't be doing that!). It was a very effective way to show these memorable images. We will probably run the images continuously during the Conference and then show them also before the Plenary Sessions in th Grand Hall.

I look forward to hearing from those of you who can contribute photographs of PA's very special farms and farm community.

Donald L. Gibbon