Pacific Media Arts

02/16/2026

Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i 2026: The Seventeenth Annual Survey Exhibition sponsored by Pacific New Media is now online. View the 75 individual accepted entries and the fourteen entire portfolios that made it into the exhibition. The gallery exhibition at Downtown Art Center opened last Thursday with over 500 people in attendance. Please check out the exhibition and the website. Thanks to all participating artists and the generous support of our vendors.

The Seventeenth Annual Survey Exhibition: Sponsored by Pacific New Media Foundation. Opens online February 18, 2026. Gallery exhibition hosted by Downtown Art Center (DAC), Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Febru…

02/08/2026

The opening reception of Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i 2026 sponsored by Pacific New Media is taking place on Thursday evening, February 12 from 5:30-8pm at Downtown Art Center. Please join us to view over 100 works from 75 Statewide photographers!

02/05/2026

Pacific New Media is excited to be collaborating with DAC (Downtown Art Center) to offer a series of classes and workshops (both online and in-person) beginning this semester, Spring 2026. Check back for additional programs now in development. We hope to see you in the classroom soon.

James Knudsen, from Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i 2026 Pacific New Media will begin teaching regular classes and workshops once again in Spring 2026. Please review our current offerings and c…

12/07/2025

Photographers in Hawai‘i: The submission deadline for Contemporary Photography in Hawaii 2026 has been extended to Monday, December 15 at 5pm. Please consider submitting your best works to this comprehensive state-wide exhibition.
Image: James Knudsen from Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i 2025

https://pnmlab.com/2025/11/11/contemporary-photography-in-hawaii-2026-submissions/

11/12/2025

Submissions for Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i 2026 are now live. Deadline, December 12. Aline Smithson, Editor-in-Chief of Lens Scratch, accomplished photographer, and educator has agreed to jury the show. Photographers in Hawai‘i: Please consider submitting your strongest images or portfolios.

Walls, Waikiki #8, by James Knudsen from Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i 2025 Seventeenth Annual Survey Exhibition Sponsored by Pacific New Media FoundationFebruary 12-February 28, 2026, Downto…

11/09/2025

Photographers in Hawai‘i: It's that time of year again for the premier Statewide juried photography exhibition: Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i 2026 at Downtown Art Center, Feb 12 - March 1, 2026. Individual images or/and portfolio submissions due on December 12. To submit (submissions will be live Nov 12): pnmlab.com

Please show the community your best works and join us this year!

09/22/2025

New online class through Pacific New Media. Open to those from all locations. Discovery and cultivate your individual photographic approach—your guiding lights of image-making. Starts Wednesday evening, October 1, for ten weeks.

Wednesdays, 5:30pm-8:30pm (Hawaii Standard time), 10 weeks, October 1, 2025 – December 10, 2025  TAUGHT ONLINE Fee: $325 Instructor: David Ulrich A personal vision is like a roadmap to help yo…

09/07/2025

New online Pacific New Media class begins on Wed. October 1. Open to all photographers in any location. Discover your authentic perspective, avoid easy solutions and clichés, and assist your capacity for discernment behind the camera and for editing images with a rigorously critical eye and mind, leading to effective and personal visual expression.

Wednesdays, 5:30pm-8:30pm (Hawaii Standard time), 10 weeks, October 1, 2025 – December 10, 2025  TAUGHT ONLINE Fee: $325 Instructor: David Ulrich A personal vision is like a roadmap to help yo…

07/10/2025

Hawaii Photographers: Please check out this new opportunity:

I'm thrilled to share that I recently took on a new challenge related to photography - one I hope many local photographers will be interested in being a part of!

Many of you know that for the last couple of years I have volunteered to help get the Pacific New Media Contemporary Photography in Hawaiʻi exhibition up on the walls and staffed. That led directly to me being asked by Floyd Takeuchi and PF Bentley to take on a larger role as the coordinator of this November show at Downtown Art Center. It's been a wonderful experience so far! Here are the details:

CALL TO PHOTOGRAPHERS! Downtown Art Center is excited to announce the River to Richards: 2025 Documentary Photography in Hawai‘i exhibition, coming this November! We're inviting Hawai‘i-based photographers to submit powerful documentary images that tell the story of Honolulu’s Downtown/Chinatown district (between River Street and Richards Street).

This exhibition, juried by award-winning photojournalist PF Bentley, will pair selected contemporary works with vintage photographs, celebrating both the past and present of our vibrant urban core—DAC’s home and Honolulu's creative heart.

🗓️ Open Call Dates: August 4 – September 5, 2025
📍 Exhibition Location: Downtown Art Center Main Gallery, Honolulu
🎉 Exhibition Dates: November 6 – 29, 2025
💵 Entry Fees: $15 per single photo (limit 10), $45 per series (max 5 photos)
📣 Eligibility: Open to all amateur and professional photographers living in Hawai‘i
📌 Image Criteria: Must depict the Downtown/Chinatown Honolulu area; must not have appeared in prior O‘ahu exhibitions; no watermarks, please.

Find out more at downtownarthi.org/documentaryphotography.

06/07/2025

June 25: "Photographic Projects: Creating and Shaping a Body of Work." Open to all levels and taught on Zoom.

This class addresses the challenges and opportunities of creating a body of work on a single theme ranging from:
generating your initial, driving idea,
sketching out the early phases of a project,
developing the narrative or storyline of the project content,
editing and sequencing,
and, finally, shaping the work into the matrix of your ideal outcome, whether a book, exhibition, website, or other means of presentation or publication.

Please consider joining us. It's a creative, vital group of photographers and there are a few spaces left.

Wednesdays, 5:30pm-8:30pm (Hawaii Standard time), 10 weeks, June 25, 2025 – August 27, 2025  TAUGHT ONLINE Fee: $325 Instructor: David Ulrich The generation and production of a photographic pr…

03/07/2025

Contemporary Photography in Hawaii 2025 photographers!

02/15/2025

Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i: The Sixteenth Annual Survey Exhibition sponsored by Pacific New Media is now online. Over 100 images from 75 artists from Hawai‘i. There's nearly a week left to see the gallery exhibition at Downtown Art Center. Congratulations to our artists for their diverse and compelling work.

The Sixteenth Annual Survey Exhibition: Sponsored by Pacific New Media Foundation. Opens online February 15, 2025. Gallery exhibition hosted by Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, February 6-21…