2025
Since 2017 I have been researching post-WWII photography in Colorado. This will be published as a book titled “Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945-95” in September 2025 by the University Press of Colorado. During the year, two exhibitions based on my research were scheduled: one extensive show at the Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, CO, March 13-April 28, and a smaller version highlighting my project’s Aspen connections at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, April 3 - 21. Installation and event pictures from the Vicki Myhren Gallery are shown below. The final image (bottom right) shows (L-R) Albert Chong, Natascha Seideneck, Ellen MacFarlane, and myself, Rupert Jenkins, speaking at a panel during the show. Images on the wall are by R. Skip Kohloff (left) and Barbara Houghton (center and right). A recording of the panel can be seen here>
2009-2015
I moved to Colorado from California in 2005 to go back to school. In 2007 I graduated from the University of Denver with an MBA. I stayed engaged with photography, and in 2009 was hired to curate a retrospective featuring the work of Hal Gould, Denver’s “Patron Saint of Photography,” at RedLine, Denver. Hal had been a founder of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC) in 1963, and the owner of Camera Obscura, Denver’s most renowned commercial photography gallery for thirty years. Works were chosen from his personal archive of photographs dating back to the mid-1940s. I worked at the Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, from 2007 to 2011; while there I curated The Family Stage (2009) and Warhol in Colorado (2011). After joining the CPAC board in 2009, I curated Double Diptych (2011), which showed at Vertigo Gallery in Denver. The curatorial premise was to present two sets of work that paired drawings with their source photographs.
Top L-R: Hal Gould Retrospective and Places Like Us at RedLine Denver, 2009; The Family Stage at the Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, 2009 (photo by Janet Delaney); Double Diptych at Vertigo, Denver, 2011; Warhol in Colorado at the Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, 2011 (photo by John Bonath).
My association with CPAC lasted through 2015. I was initially a board member, then board chair, and eventually executive director. During my time as chair, CPAC merged with Working with Artists in Belmar, Lakewood, north of Denver. Programming there lasted for about two years before CPAC relocated back to one of its former locations in Denver, on 15th Street. Role Play (curated by myself and Conor King) was shown at RedLine, Denver, in 2015, as part of its Month of Photography programming. Mixed Bag, about the marijuana industry, was the last exhibition I curated for CPAC (May 2015). These are just a few of many shows I curated, and projects I initiated, for CPAC between 2009 and 2015.
I left CPAC in 2015 to relocate to Eugene, Oregon, for a year. Since my return I have concentrated on writing about photography and editing (see the Colorado Photo History and Durrington Edits menu tabs, at left, for details).
Top L-R: Situating Robert Adams at CPAC, Lakewood, 2011; Vivian Keulards, at CPAC, Lakewood, 2012; Duane Michals lecture, for CPAC at the Denver Art Museum, 2013. Bottom L-R: David Taylor: Working the Line, at CPAC, Denver, 2014; Role Play, for CPAC at RedLine Denver, 2015; Mixed Bag at CPAC, Denver, 2015 .