{"id":103616,"date":"2026-06-10T06:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=103616"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:56:35","slug":"pride-and-place-in-utah-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pride-and-place-in-utah-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride and Place in Utah Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5113-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103619\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5113-1200x792.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5113-1200x792.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5113-350x231.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5113-768x507.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5113-1536x1013.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5113-2048x1351.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"important-paragraph\">Every two years, the Utah Cultural Celebration Center hosts the Wasatch Camera Club\u2019s <em>Utah Travels<\/em> exhibition. The title is a bit misleading, since while many of the high quality photographs have been taken, as implied, in some of Utah\u2019s most photogenic places, \u201cUtah travels\u201d could just as well mean Utahns go and photograph the world. Indeed, while there are inevitably new perspectives on familiar sights, there are just as certain to be world-famous subjects seen with the same sense of perspective, and likely a few \u201ckeepers\u201d that will be totally new to the audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"important-paragraph\">This year, in honor of Pride month, the Center has added something extra. While it\u2019s only 18 images, they represent prime choices from celebrated photojournalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfpphoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robin Pendergrast<\/a>\u2019s inventory of more 23,000 images. As will be seen, each of these eighteen captures the feeling of being present at climactic moments of, for, and from PRIDE. To see the beautiful, enthusiastic, and fully engaged attendees at various sites in Salt Lake will either return those who were there to a satisfying point in their lives, or if this is an introduction to the event, bring home the excitement and conviction so often spoken about.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-103616 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pride-and-place-in-utah-travels\/img_5115\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5115-290x290.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5115-290x290.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5115-120x120.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5115-360x360.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pride-and-place-in-utah-travels\/img_5114\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5114-290x290.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5114-290x290.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5114-120x120.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5114-360x360.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pride-and-place-in-utah-travels\/img_5112\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5112-290x290.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5112-290x290.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5112-120x120.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5112-360x360.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"important-paragraph\">Consequently, it was disappointing to hear, even as UCCC\u2019s photo exhibits were opening, that a decision had been made to eliminate Pride Month in Utah and replace it with Fidelity Month. For those who have been paying attention, \u201cFidelity\u201d was the focus of a national campaign intended to dilute the universal message of Pride as a feeling about oneself and replace it with the invocation of a narrow code of conduct. It seems it\u2019s like when those who didn\u2019t want to acknowledge that \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d set out to replace that slogan with \u201cAll Lives Matter.\u201d Imagine if, instead of Utah Travels, the title was changed to \u201cEveryone Travels.\u201d No news there. Clearly, pride, whether in one\u2019s place of origin or ones fought-for lifestyle, is something art can, and does, address and present through familiar images, places, and people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"important-paragraph\">Can we not say that there has been a connection between the pride felt by Utahans and the particular virtues the State stands for? What happens to that pride-in-place when those virtues are abandoned? The disconnect that follows can perhaps best be invoked by an art experience, such as comparing the feeling one gets on seeing the State Capitol as the backdrop for an ecstatic evocation of pride, and then realizing that someone wasn\u2019t sufficiently moved by viewing the art to stand up for its actual subject matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5111-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103617\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5111-1200x791.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5111-1200x791.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5111-350x231.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5111-768x506.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5111-1536x1012.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5111-2048x1349.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Pride Along the Wasatch<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturalcelebration.org\/galleries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Utah Cultural Celebration Center<\/a>, West Valley City, June 8 &#8211; June 23, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every two years, the Utah Cultural Celebration Center hosts the Wasatch Camera Club\u2019s Utah Travels exhibition. The title is a bit misleading, since while many of the high quality photographs have been taken, as implied, in some of Utah\u2019s most photogenic places, \u201cUtah travels\u201d could just as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":847,"featured_media":103617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition_reviews","category-visual_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5111-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 13:22:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103624,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103616\/revisions\/103624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}