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Moldenhauer selected for SHOTS Magazine

Illuminated

Moldenhauer’s image, Illuminated, was selected for inclusion in SHOTS Magazine’s issue No. 127, Fall 2026. The theme for the issue was The Human Figure.

SHOTS Magazine is a quarterly online publication that features a theme for which photographers can submit images. As such, it focuses on the value of the single image. It also includes a feature photographer who works in series and delves into the importance of a collection of images that conveys the concept or story being told.

Moldenhauer published in ARTDOC Magazine

ARTDOC Magazine selected two of Susan Moldenhauer’s images for Living Space, a global online exhibition.

Living Space explores the environments we inhabit and the spaces that shape everyday experience. It presents photographic perspectives on the places we move through and the surroundings that form part of daily life. The exhibition encompasses cityscapes, rural landscapes, domestic interiors, architecture, and the built environment. The focus is on attention and observation — on how photographers look at the spaces around them and translate lived experience into images. The works explore not only how we shape our surroundings, but how our surroundings shape us. Together, the photographs present the spaces we live in, move through, observe, and inhabit.

Moldenhauer’s selected images are Independence and Self, both from her ongoing series that explores time, place, and identity through self-reflections in the storefront windows of Laramie, WY, where she has lived for more than 30 years.

Catching up – 2025

Exhibition in 2025:

Wyoming | Susan, 2004

Wyoming | Susan, 2004 is from an earlier series called Place | Mind | Spirit. It was First Place in Abandon/Abandonment at the New York Center for Photographic Arts in 2025.

Jennifer with Monarchs, 2025

Jennifer with Monarchs 2025, was accepted into Blue Sky Gallery’s Home and Garden Show, an online exhibition that is part of a year-long celebration of its 50th Anniversary. The original House and Garden Show was in 1986. Blue Sky Gallery gave me my first solo exhibition in 1985.

Window Dressing, 2023

Window Dressing, 2023, was accepted into two exhibitions in 2025:

Eleven: Upon Reflection at Viewpoint Photographic Center in Sacramento, CA, where it won Third Place

The Return: School of Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition at Penn State University, where I graduated in 1984 with my Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography.

Wedding Window, 2025

Wedding Window, 2025, was selected for the Members Show 2025 at the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC.

Photo Pensato exhibition, 2025

Photo Pensato presented an exhibition at D’Art Gallery in conjunction with the 2025 Month of Photography celebrations in Denver.

Catching up -2023 -2024

I have been remiss in posting my accomplishments on this website, largely due to a battle with dry eye that has kept me from being on the computer for any length of time. Notable achievements from 2023 – 2024:

Hey! What’s That Sound?

FStop Magazine, Black and White Photography, online group exhibition, issue #117, 2023; Hey! What’s That Sound, from the series Since Then.

Self, Frames Within Frames, Praxis Gallery

My image, Self, was selected for the International Juried Photography Exhibition at Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, MN, 2024. This image began a new body of work that I continue to develop, titled Reflections (working title).

Abby, 2024

Abby, 2024, was selected for an online exhibition called she at ASmith Gallery, in 2024. Abby is from a broad cross-section of work I continue to add to called Home Place.

Implosion

Implosion, June 23, 20 won an Honorable Mention in the 30th Annual Members Juried Exhibition at the Griffen Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, in 2024. Implosion is from the series Since Then.

It was also included in the 2023 exhibition by Photo Pensato at the Sangre de Cristo Art Center in Pueblo.

Jennifer, 2024

Jennifer, 2024 won an Honorable Mention in the exhibition HOME at Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis. This image is from the series Home Place.

Place | Mind | Spirit Re-View at SΘK Gallery

Installation view, SΘK Gallery, 2023

A special installation of Susan Moldenhauer’s series, Place | Mind | Spirit can be seen by appointment only at SΘK Gallery in Laramie, WY.

Place | Mind | Spirit Re-View is a body of work created between 2002 and 2008. She writes: Place | Mind | Spirit was a celebration for me, being in Wyoming, having been appointed the director of the Univerity of Wyoming Art Museum, and feeling grounded. I hadn’t made any pictures for almost two years and decided it was critical that I get photography back in my life. It was the beginning of my second decade here, and from the beginning, I had been fascinated by the ever-changing sky, the ever-present wind, the light on the landscape.”

The landscape between Laramie and Cheyenne became a focal point for her work as she was attracted to the open meadows and the scale changes that space and distance offer. The quality of air at 8000 ft was unusual for her, having been born in Chicago and raised in its suburbs where grayness was pervasive.

Using her own presence on the land, she danced with fabric before her camera in an effort to make wind a partner. The format is panoramic in the work on view; there is a companion series that is square. Advancements in desktop printing made it possible for her to print her own images in black and white after years of working with a lab to make her prints.

The opportunity for Moldenhauer to re-visit this work after so many years has led to re-titling the previous generic references to these images.

SΘK Gallery is an event space for the arts and is available for house concerts, pop up exhibitions, and readings. Contact her at moldenhauerphotostudio@gmail.com for more information or to schedule a time for viewing the exhibition. SΘK Gallery is located at 1004 S 2nd St in Laramie. More information may be found at SΘK Gallery on FaceBook.