Don Jacobson
Artist Bio
The world of photography and the world of the natural wonders of the Sierra Nevada opened to Don Jacobson simultaneously. The photographs he took with his little Kodak Brownie were woefully inadequate to express the grandeur of the Range of Light. Within a week of his first backpack trip into the high country, he bought his first SLR, a Pentax Spotmatic, and began to take photography classes. While living in Los Angeles, he studied photography with Edmund Teske at UCLA for a year.
He is currently a member of the Portland Photographers Forum and the Interim Group, a critique group originally formed by the influential photographer Minor White. Many of his photographs have won awards, been published in well-respected photographic magazines, the Sierra Club calendar, and exhibited nationally.