Art Exhibit: Portland Press Herald — 2025: The Year in Photos

Portland Press Herald: 2025 — The Year in Photos
Art Exhibit April 10 — June 3, 2026
 

Acclaimed documentary photographer Dorothea Lange once said, "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

That speaks to the core of our job as photojournalists: within the blur of the constant motion of life, we search for moments, stopping time for an instant to reveal some character, beauty, or deeper meaning. This collection of images are some moments during 2025 that we think are worth pausing to contemplate. In Shawn Ouellette's photo, patterns of light create art on a brick wall on a Portland side street and pure exuberance lights up the face of a World War II veteran arriving at his 103rd birthday party in a photo by Derek Davis. Brianna Soukup's photo of people in costumes standing in an elevator just as its doors begin to close captures a quirky, fun moment. Daryn Slover's photo of a goalie looking over his shoulders at a soccer ball flying into the net is the epitome of peak sports action. Elements of nature are brought together in Gregory Rec's photo of a crow silhouetted against a large supermoon.

We hope you like viewing these images as much as we enjoyed finding them.