Extremely pleased and proud to have won the Portrait Silver and two Bronze Awards at the 1839 Awards for Non Professional Photographer of the Year Contest 2025 for my image of Cheyenne Quanah Kaline 1992 and Zuni Kai Lamar for Travel also 1992 plus my Cody Wyoming Powwow Bustle 2011 for Event. Nice way to bookend a life well lived now into my seventy-fourth year of trampling Mother Earth! As a working artist/storyteller for over four decades publishing my own creative works as a sole trader under the banner of Andrew Hogarth Publishing, it still amazes and inspire me when I see images brought back to life with a new collaboration and current project. This time around was with the highly respected 1839 Awards Photographer of the Year Contest in the USA. The image in question was of Quanah Kaline the young Cheyenne powwow dancer that was created quickly in fading natural light when I visited the Cheyenne/Arapaho Colony Powwow in western Oklahoma in 1992. Quanah’s image had graced the cover of my 1994 book Native Lands: The West of the American Indian 1982-1992.
Quanah was my lead image when compiling and curating my colour Native Lands photographic exhibition in 1994. The image was also highlighted in a excellent thought provoking half page newspaper article by the Jackson Hole News in Wyoming in the Fall of 1996. Alison Gregor a curator at the Jackson Hole Museum totally captured the essence of the image and others in her story while the Native Lands exhibit graced the walls of the museum during the internationally renowned Falls Art Festival. The image was also highlighted on the cover of my book catalogue 1990-1994 with well respected Australian journalist Ethol Bonhoff writing a short but telling review on her observations of seeing Quanah and the other images highlighted in the publication. Later in 1997 when curating my Powwow: Native American Celebration colour photographic exhibition for its three year national tour of the United States of America by non for profit Kansas City based touring company Exhibits USA I decided to include the image Quanah Kaline. Along with fifty-four other powerful and eye catching images of traditional powwow dancers and tall coned shaped tepees the exhibit graced the walls of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman for a three month double booking.
Other notable institutions and art galleries that exhibited Powwow were the Clark County Museum in Henderson, Nevada next to the golden lights of Las Vegas for a three month double booking, the Shafer Gallery in Big Bend, Kansas with painting of Pablo Picasso as company and the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in Huntsville, Texas. All up my Powwow exhibition criss-crossed thirteen American states and was showcased in sixteen institutions along the way. Powwow was one of Exhibits USA top drawer attractions during its three year run from 2000-2003. I am sure the image of young Quanah Kaline inspired and educated interested parties during its touring years. As my dear friend and journalist Rob Inder-Smith wrote “The eyes have it. The hum of the soul.” On the 24th of September, 2025 thirty-three years after the creation of the image Quanah Kaline won Silver for the Portrait Category at 1839 Awards Non Professional Photographer of the Year Contest 2025. The eyes certainly have it!
The cataloging and archiving of my film and digital image collections has now been completed with the recent land and sea adventure to Vancouver British Columbia and Alaska the forty-ninth state of the United States of America: Today is the 12th of February, 2024 and the time has now arrived to think about where the 1183 Native American and Great Plains archived negatives and 3100 digital image collections should reside in future years. The imagery totalling 4283 photographic images was created during my seventeen road trips driving 200,000 miles from the period 1981-2013. The preserved imagery is presently archived in three rosewood boxes pictured below. The image collections have six by four inch signed colour sample mounted prints and they also have raw scanned 20MB digital images for future use. Also included are forty “Great Plains Stories” text chapters with a total of over 6000 pages included with the collections. The stories deal with all aspects of my personal and creative collaborations with Native American artists and storytellers along the way that compliments the preserved imagery during my extensive journey’s across the United States of America. The Mexico City and Yucatán Peninsula digital image collections are also titled and archived and included on portable flash drives much like the Great Plains digital imagery from 2008-2013. Further details regarding the image titles and extras can be located in the “Image Collections” drop down menu on the andrewhogarth.net website.
As a current working artist and sole trader of my own creative works I am extremely proud of the effort over the last forty years. I have so many fond memories of all the Native American artists, ranchers and trading post owners who I met and photographed along the way. Many individuals became good friends over the decades and it is amazing how the power of a good image can help form life long bonds of friendship. Creating and sharing these special images with them and their families and the general public at large through my books, photographic exhibitions and music was indeed a honour for this displaced Scotsman!
Handmade Signed Albums: The two signed eighteen inch by twelve inch mini poster signed image handmade acid free albums are housed in protective cases with an overall size of twenty-four inch by seventeen inch. Both albums are sixty-four pages each in total and they have recently been updated to include imagery from my final Great Plains road trip in 2013. Both limited edition handmade albums are one of a kind and house two hundred and fifty-six images from my premier photograph collections from the first image of the Alamo Chapel in 1981 to the stunning portraiture series of Navajo traditional dancer Calvert Dixon in 2013. Included in the albums are images of Jack Little, Bill Tallbull, Frank Fools Crow, John L. Sipes Jr, Joe Medicine Crow, Darrel Lone Bear, Sallie Black Eyes, Tony Rider, Adam Nordwall, Roy Pete, Harvey Spoonhunter, Timothy Eashappies, Kylie Attine, Jay Eagle, Jondella Chavis, John Tail, Don Nomee, Nathan Blindman, Cedric Walks Over-Ice, Jocelyn Billy, Bill Hayes, Francis and Cerise Stewart, Virginia Pease, Orlando Dugi, Heywood Big Day, Danny Reyes, Phillip Paul, Daniel Long Soldier, Pearl Sammarifa, Jack Old Horn, Larry Green, William Spotted Eagle, Nakita Williamson, Gary Tail Feathers, Tylis Bad Bear, Elmer Blackbird, Mary Cummins Bear-Cloud, Tim Real Bird, Quanah Kaline, Dan Nanamkin, Travis Terry, Jewel Medicine Horse, Paha Ska, Fabian Fontenelle, Alvin Yellow Owl, Khena Bullshields, Stanley Bear-Paw, Melvin Smith, Newton Old Crow, Tim Yellowtail, Walter Old Elk, Logan Reeder, Raymond Cree, Tommy Christian, Johnathan Maxwell Beartusk, Patti Douville, Gilbert Emery Brown, Alorha Baga, Percy War Cloud Edwards and Pius Real Bird.
Exhibits USA National Tour Images: In late April, 1998 my Powwow: Native American Celebration fifty-five framed photographic exhibition complete with educational wall text was one of only fourteen art forms worldwide selected for a three year national tour of the United States of America by Non For Profit Touring Company Exhibits USA located in Kansas City, Missouri. The Powwow exhibit opened at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee in late October, 2000. Other prominent museums and galleries who exhibited Powwow: Native American Celebration were the Museum of the Mountain Man, Pinedale, Wyoming, the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum, Buffalo, Wyoming, the Shafer Art Gallery, Big Bend, Kansas, the Museum at Warm Springs, Oregon, the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman and the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, Texas. The Powwow collection was one of Exhibits USA most popular touring exhibitions from 2000-2003. The exhibit was completely booked out after the first fifteen months of its listing in the Exhibit USA travelling catalogues. The fifty-five matted images from the exhibition are twenty-four inch by twenty inch. All fifty-five images are initialed AH 2000. The Powwow image collection is also supported with a high end twenty-four page limited edition litho catalogue and include a selection of the exhibition wall text from Lakota Jack Little published through Andrew Hogarth Publishing.
New Updated Themed Website: The large image galleries under the “Photography” menu on my website have now been deleted online and replaced by a series of larger selected images from each of the preserved archived collections. Although when one views the entire website they will still be able enjoy an interesting visual and text interaction as I journeyed across the Great Plains of North America for over three decades.