(left) Adam Jahiel "Remuda #5", Spanish Ranch, NV
(middle) Daniel Cheek, "Pony Express Trail", Outside Austin, NV
(right) Nolan Peece, "Old Bar", Austin, NV

I will be showing along with two other photographers at the 15th Annual Artown Festival at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. Our combined exhibit is called "Great Basin Exteriors."

My work shows the vanishing working cowboys of Northern Nevada - their myth and realities. Daniel Check presents the spaciousness of the Basin and the small intrusions that are indicative of a changing West. Nolan Preece points up the "rustic patina" of the Basin that is vanishing under the pressure of restoration and development.

This exhibit is one of over 400 events in this month-long festival. Over 100 organizations and businesses of Reno support these events.

This exhibit hours are from 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday. Saturday from 9am to 4pm. The exhibit will be closed Sundays and holidays. A reception is scheduled for July 16 from 4pm to 7pm.

See Galleries and Shows for directions to the Truckee Meadows Community College Main Art Gallery.

In September, I will be attending a Bromoil workshop. I'll keep you informed.

Look here for more information on a Kyrgyzstan Workshop I am forming. Nothing definite yet, but Iill publish more info as the concept gels.

Two famous photographers, Douglas Kirkland and Bruce Weber, now have some of my photos in their collections.

Bradford Brinton Museum, just south of Big Horn, Wyoming, has included my "Last Cowboy" work in their 6^thBienniel Invitational.

The exhibit will run from September 11 to October 11. See Galleries and Shows for directions.

Fifty photograpers, representing 50 states, participated in a year-long project aimed at revealing aspects of the USA today through each photographer's style. I represented Wyoming.

Every two months each photographer was sent an assignment by e-mail and had a period of two months to produce one image from their State. The assignments were "People," "Habitat," "Landscape," "Industry," "Entertainment," and "The American Dream."

At the end of the project, three hundred images were gathered. The photographs can be viewed at the 50-States Project website, http://www.50statesproject.net.

There is also a Swedish version of this project at http://swedishdocument.net/. An English project is currently being gathered.

Last year I photographed the training received by Traditional Cowboy Arts Association members Cary Schwarz and Pedro Pedrini at the workshop of Jean Luc Parisot in Saumer, France. Parisot is the famous main casemaker and saddlemaker for the French National Riding Academy (L'Ecole Nationale d'Equitation), home of the famous riding troop Cadre Noir de Saumer.

My photos, were included in the article written by Jennifer Denison for the October, 2009 edition of Western Horseman.

"Fritz and Snooks" from my "Last Cowboy" series, and part of Bill and Alice Wright's collection in Abilene, Texas, was included in their exhibition in the Grace Museum last summer.

Their exhibition, "Best Friends -- The Dog as Subject in Fine Art Photography," was held as part of the annual mid-August Dog Days ArtWalk in Abilene and showed the couple's affection for the ever-present pooch.

A group of amateur photographers from different cities in Turkey are featuring both my "Last Cowboy" images and my work from Kyrgyzstan in their photo magazine and website "Fotoritim." The narratives for the two sets of images are in both Turkish and English. The "Last Cowboy" photos are here. The images from Kyrgyzstan are here.

My photographs were part of the "Indomitable Spirit" exibition and auction held November 13, 2008 at the ACE Gallery in Los Angeles.

This event honored the inspirational strength of seriously ill children and their families. Proceeds benefited the Starlight Children's Foundation.

Participating photographers contributed portraits, landscapes and other images that they felt best exemplified the indomitable spirit that is displayed on a daily basis by the kids and families Starlight serves.

Using on-demand publishing, I am now making two high-quality books available of images in "The Last Cowboy" series and the photographs from "Kyrgyzstan". These books serve both as a stand-alone books and catalogs of my images for sale. Over time, I may make slight changes in the books' presentations but the images will remain the same.

"The Last Cowboy" book comes in two versions, Standard (10" x 8") and Deluxe (13" x 10"). The "Kyrgyzstan" book comes in 10" x 8".

More details on the books and a link to interactively view the books online is on the Ordering page.

Many of my "Last Cowboy" images were displayed in the "Within Range" show at the Denver gallery of Visions West Galleries. The show ran from April 3 to May 1, 2008.

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The Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne presented images from my "Last Cowboy" series in a show called "Cowboys on the Range: Photographs by Adam Jahiel," from January to March, 2008.

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The Open Shutter Gallery in Durango, Colorado presented a "Spirit of the West" exhibit during September and October, 2007.

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The Knights of the Light Table was a program in the 18^th Annual Trappings of the American West Exhibition, an annual juried sales exhibition presented by the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Dry Creek Arts Fellowship.

Featured were works of 75 artists from 14 western states, Hawaii, and Canada chosen for the outstanding artistic skills. This was the only exhibition in the United States to combine finely-tooled saddles, braided rawhide, hitched horsehair, boots, hats, knives, bits, and spurs with paintings, photography, and bronze sculptures.

The "Knights of the Light Table" program presented the current work of eight Dry Creek Fellowship photographers showing the horse and ranching culture from Arizona, California, Mexico, Mongolia, Montana, Kyrgyzstan and Wyoming.

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An image of mine is in the new book "The World's Greatest Black & White Photography," published by The Black and White Spider Awards.

The book may be obtained from Amazon.com

The July-August 2007 issue (#71) of Lenswork included my photographs in the article "The Country-folk of Kyrgyzstan." This was the first time a photographer has been published three times in the magazine.

A well-known Chinese photography magazine, "Photographer's Companion" is featuring photos from the "Last Cowboy" series.

The year-old russian-language magazine "Public," published in Moldova, would also like to use some of my "Last Cowboy" photographs in an upcoming issue. As the editor phrased it, they would like to make "one more hole in the 'iron curtain' which still borders the former Soviet Union countries and the rest of the world."