Rarefied Light from Alaska Photographic Center in Anchorage On view Dec. 4-26, 2015

The Alaska Photographic Center (APC) is a statewide organization formed in 1983, with a mission to promote fine art photography in Alaska. Each year APC seeks out a nationally recognized artist to jury the Rarefied Light show and present a public lecture and workshop. Rarefied Light is Alaska’s largest annual fine art photography exhibition. This year APC received 650 entries by 97 artists. Guest juror Susan Burnstine selected 49 photographs for inclusion in this year’s exhibition.

2015 Best of Show was awarded to Kaitlin Wilson, Fairbanks, for the print  “House in the Birch Forest”. Other Fairbanks Artists included in the exhibit are Kate Wool, Ryota Kajita and David Dawson.

Natalie Taylor is a recent graduate of the UAF MFA program and currently teaches at UAF and CTC. She writes creative nonfiction, primarily about her family and childhood growing up in Texas and South Africa. Her work has been published in Prick of the Spindle and Sediments and is forthcoming in Under the Sun.

Carolyn Stice writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals including Cutthroat, Permafrost, Crab Fat, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She lives in Ester, AK.