The Falls, Vol. 1 - Art Show Opening - Oct 4

North Bend, WA  - Friday, October 4th, 2024
Scott Rinckenberger, acclaimed photographer and adventurer, will unveil a new fall show at his gallery. This show opening will feature a curated collection of Scott’s truly unique perspective and powerful compositions of Snoqualmie Falls unlike anything seen before.

Designed to be a cultural center in the idyllic mountain town of North Bend, the gallery space is a year old and features a rotating selection of Scott’s work capturing images that celebrate the subtle and sublime elements that inspire his life in the mountains and in the greater Snoqualmie Valley.

To stand at Snoqualmie Falls during a flood is to feel true power. The deafening roar, the shaking ground, the saturating mist, the immeasurable volume and weight. Yet Snoqualmie Falls has a power that runs deeper than these physical symptoms. This is the place where the Snoqualmie Tribe believes is the very source of their creation. Where Moon the Transformer created the various people and all the rivers as they are now. For the people who have lived in this place since time immemorial, this is the center of the universe.

A decade ago, Scott and his family moved to a beautifully forested property just below Snoqualmie Falls. Over the subsequent years, he has visited and photographed the falls in every season and every state of conditions, from deep freeze to thundering flood, from pools in the riverbed to helicopters overhead. The 6th gallery show, The Falls Vol. 1, is a collection of large-format photographs that will leave the viewer awestruck by the alchemy of water, stone, light and gravity.

“I pass the falls most every day, and relish any excuse to stop and see the show. A bit of golden light in a late summer sunset, a morning fog swirling in the falls basin. One night, I realized that the path of a rising full moon would be directly above the falls. I donned a wetsuit, put my camera in a dry bag, and swam up the river to see the very creation story play out in real time as the moon and the falls combined to render the world anew.”