A new photography exhibit opening this week at Philomath Museum will document one of Oregon’s darkest chapters — the 1856 forced removal of hundreds of Native American men, women and children from Southern Oregon to a reservation more than 260 miles away. “Oregon’s Trail of Tears,” created by Albany photographer Nolan Streitberger, opens Aug. 8 in the Moreland Gallery and runs through March 27. To create the images, Streitberger used an antique wooden view camera and the wet plate collodion process — the same photographic method used in the 1850s. Streitberger first learned photography as a high school student through Oregon State University’s JumpstART program, a pre-college arts program. “Oregon’s Trail of Tears” was selected as a Critical Mass 2023 finalist, and the project has received grant support from the Oregon Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kinsman Foundation.