In August of 2021, the Inpost Artspace hosted a show by Jim Gale entitled “Landscape Retrospective: From Film to Digital and Infrared Imaging | The Photography of Jim Gale.” On April 19, 2023, at age 65, Jim Gale passed away. Before his passing, in an act of deep generosity and love, Jim donated all of his jazz photographs to Outpost. This collection includes hundreds of framed and matted prints as well as many may thousands of negatives and digital files. Jim was a wonderful friend— a kind and gentle soul whom everybody loved along with his masterful work. As he wrote at the time of his 2021 Landscape show, “I really had not gotten back into music photography until I moved to Albuquerque and discovered the Outpost! After my first show at the old Morningside location, I was hooked! Although my taste in music is very eclectic, I was drawn deeper into the beauty, improvisation and creativity of Jazz. Since I could never afford all the shows I wanted to see, I approached Tom about an exchange of my show photographs for free admittance. This arrangement as the volunteer “house photographer” has now lasted over 23 years! At this point, there are few (if any) other clubs or performance spaces that have such a complete and extensive photographic documentation.” How true that last statement is! Now, in a continuing act of generosity, Jim’s wife, Rachel Kelly has offered to donate his landscape photographs for Outpost to exhibit and sell as a benefit to the organization. In describing his landscapes which were taken during his numerous backpacking adventures (another love of his). Jim said, “I developed a passion for documenting my adventures so that I could preserve and capture the details and the beauty I saw through my lens. It still amazes me how much a single image from 40 years ago can bring back vivid memories I thought I had forgotten.” He went on to say about that show in 2021, “my landscape work features a mix of old film (and infrared film in 4×5 sheet size) and newer digital work. Most of the photographs are from New Mexico and the Southwest. The large B&W images were some of the last I developed and printed in my garage darkroom, and while I have embraced digital, I find there is something unique and beautiful about the analog film/print that is hard to reproduce in digital.” So please come to honor Jim and Rachel and to view a beautiful exhibit and purchase the prints to benefit Outpost as Jim would have wanted you to do. Free.

Photographs may be purchased at any time during the Exhibit which will run from March 25-May 30.