Roger Dorband has been photographing Oregon's Rogue River since 1996. To date, his images of the river have been published as Rogue River calendars, been marketed to art lovers as limited edition prints, and used by architects to enhance public spaces. Now Dorband's images of the river are available in the form of a coffee table book, the first of its kind on the Rogue River.
Roger Dorband's "photographs — each a masterpiece in itself — capture what words are incapable of expressing: the spirit and essence of the Rogue River."
from the foreword by Governor John Kitzhaber
In the Pacific Northwest, rivers flow through our lives with an energy and constancy as persistent as time itself. No two are the same, yet each shapes the life and land around it as surely as snow melts and water runs downhill. This book is a celebration in photographs and words of southern Oregon's Rogue River, which has been shaping my life for over 60 years.
Getting to know a river can be a lifelong journey. Like the ever changing background of an epic story, in my life the Rogue has been a place to gather with others, a fortress of solitude, an aid to memory, a song, a quality of light, a cradle of dreams, a resting place, a source of energy, a giver of joy and a receptacle of sorrow. At times it has been a perfume, a stink, an ease, an obstacle, and always the living heart of the valley.
Roger Dorband - from the introduction, A River is a Living Thing
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