Lynn Doran, a member of the Photographic and Digital Artists group [PADA] at the Palos Verdes Art Center, has been juried into "The Shape of a Life” a spotlight exhibition at Decagon Gallery. The exhibition is presented online at decagongallery.com and is on view from November 1, 2026, through January 1, 2027.
Doran's photograph A Tough Life is part of the group chosen by the Decagon Gallery curatorial team. A second group was selected by juror J. Sybylla Smith. Together the two groups offer two readings of what it means to give a life its shape.
Doran made the image while traveling in the Omo Valley of Ethiopia, before a dam was built on the Omo River, when tribal life was still intact. It portrays a woman of the Nyangatom tribe, whose abundance of necklaces shows her tribe.
A Tough Life by Lynn Doran
Written by Paul Anderson with assistance from claude.ai.