Celebrate cinema in Portland, Oregon. Watch over 200 independent films, attend over 75 workshops, networking events, parties, classes and more. Spread across 12+ venues. Buy tickets, merchandise and more at our Festival HQ located at 1139 NW Couch Street—just a block from Powells Books. September 1-7. #PDXFF15
In 1853, traveling with famed explorer John Fremont's Fifth Westward Expedition, Solomon Carvalho (1815-1897) became one of the first photographers to document the sweeping vistas and treacherous terrain of the far American West. Carvalho, an observant Jew and portrait painter who had never saddled his own horse, survived grueling conditions and lack of food along the 2400 mile journey from New York City through Kansas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and California and lived to write about it.