Opening Reception for Kaare Iverson Art Exhibit

Join us in welcoming artist Kaare Iverson and his remarkable photographs of local Coho Salmon in this new art exhibit, “The Last Coho” on display at the Laguna Environmental Center, May 4 – August 30, 2024.

“The Last Coho” is a photography exhibit combining large-scale portraiture of endangered salmon with editorial excerpts that collectively illustrate the incredible effort to rehabilitate Coho in the Russian River Watershed. The salmon portraits place our native fish on a stage level with the charismatic megafauna of the Western identity (i.e. Bison, Grizzly Bear, etc.), illustrating them as a species worthy of our admiration, empathy, and reciprocity. Many of the portraits were shot on large format film using an heirloom land camera which the photographer inherited through a connection to Ansel Adams.