Photographer Linda Pall has been dubbed the “Mother of the Market” for her history with the Farmers Market in Moscow and for her documentation of the last 38 years of market activity.

“I love how she represents the Moscow Farmers Market,” said DJ Scallorn, assistant art director at the Third Street Gallery in Moscow. “(Linda’s photos are) a great way to experience the market.”

Pall has been with the Moscow Farmer’s Market since its creation. She helped in deciding on a location and working through the paperwork and details.

“I suggested to have it located on 4^th Street by Friendship Square,” said Pall, who is the featured photographer at the Third Street Gallery. “I would go there every Saturday from 6 a.m. to noon.”

Pall’s photos from the market are featured in the “Farmers Market Reflections” exhibit, on display through April 3 at Third Street Gallery, located above City Hall in Moscow. A reception for the exhibit will take place Thursday from 5 – 7 p.m.

After several years of working on City Council, Pall decided to go back to school to become a lawyer, so her duties were passed on to the Moscow Art Commission.

Even when Pall wasn’t in charge of the market itself, she was still on the city council. Eventually she decided she wanted to be involved in a different way.

“This time I thought my contribution to the market would be taking photographs of the market,” she said. “I took a lot of photos of the people who came to the market, the produce, and the vendors.”

More than 10 years ago, Pall had her work on display for the first time. People told her they wanted to see her photos and she answered, putting her photos on display at the Third Street Gallery in the early 2000s.

Although Pall’s real jobs were being a lawyer and teaching business law at WSU, her passion was taking pictures.

“I was taking photos like crazy and putting them on display,” she said.

However, shortly after her first exhibit, she was diagnosed with a terminal illness, pulmonary atrial hypertension, and was given two years to live. She decided she needed to take as many pictures as possible and follow that passion.

But she made it past those two years.

“I somehow told the Grim Reaper, ‘No, I won’t go yet,’” she said. Then, in 2011 she got sick again and had to quit working at WSU.

“My friends asked when I got back from the hospital if I’d take photos again. I did,” Pall said.

Pall enjoys taking pictures of produce and the market, and for good reason.

“I love to take pictures of the vegetables because one, they’re beautiful, and two, they don’t move or complain,” she said.

Pall doesn’t just take pictures of the produce, though. She captures the people involved as well.

“There’s a lot of great photographs of people,” said Kathleen Burns, art director of the Third Street Gallery. “(There are photos of) new faces, children’s faces, bands, just lots of good people pictures.”

Although Pall’s work has been on display in the past, the majority of the photos in the exhibit are new.

“About 80 percent are new photos, and 20 percent are ones I’ve seen before,” Burns said. “(The old ones) are great, they tell the history of the market.”