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BIGPICTURE: NATURAL WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

Event Type: SHOW

2023-11-16 to 2024-04-07  

California Academy of Sciences

55 Music Concourse Dr, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118

Adult   $39.00, Age 3-17   $30.50, Student & Seniors   $34.00

Hours: Mon - Sat 9:30 AM-5:00 PM;  Sun 11:00 AM-5:00 PM;  

For more information:

phone: (415) 379-8000
email: info@calacademy.org
website: www.calacademy.org


Witness the wonders of the natural world in BigPicture: Natural World Photography at the California Academy of Sciences. This exhibition comes together through a judged competition of world class nature photographers. Jaguars, ants, and Bears, oh my! The images in this exhibition distort scale and bring the distant natural world right in front of your face. Whether an avid adventure photographer or a domestic animal lover, BigPicture shows a world you must see to believe. Coinciding with the exhibition, the Academy has published its second wildlife photography book, titled "Seeing It All: Women Photographers Expose our Planet," featuring over 125 dramatic images by 11 visionary female photographers.

ONLINE ARTIST TALK: CPA ARTIST GRANT RECIPIENTS ANDREA OREJARENA & CALEB STEIN

Event Type: ONLINE ARTIST TALK

2024-04-02   12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Center for Photographic Art

San Carlos at 9th Avenue, At the Sunset Center, Carmel, CA 93921

General Admission   $10.00, CPA Members   $.00

For more information:

phone: (831) 625-5181
email: cpa-info@photography.com
website: photography.org


Artist duo Orejarena & Stein and curator Shana Lopes discuss the artists' new book and travelling exhibition, American Glitch, which looks at the slip between fact and fiction and how this manifests in the U.S. landscape, the duo's adopted home. An ocean of information leaves us perpetually asking what's real and what's fake. In an era defined by screens, conspiracy theories, and the advent of the Metaverse, the notion that we're existing within a simulation has become increasingly popular, often in a satirical collective protest to late stage capitalism, disinformation and increased dependence on technology.

Click HERE to register

WINTER EXHIBITION: TOGETHER WE RISE: IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA -- PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK TUSCHMAN

Event Type: SHOW

2024-01-08 to 2024-03-30  

FootHill College

12345 El Monte Rd, Krause Center For Innovation - Building , Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

Event is Free

Hours: Mon 9:00 AM-5:00 PM;  Tue 9:00 AM-7:00 PM;  Wed 9:00 AM-5:00 PM;  Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM;  Fri 9:00 AM-5:00 PM;  Sat 10:30 AM-4:00 PM;  

For more information:

phone: (650) 949-7318
email: walgrenjudith@fhda.edu
website: www.foothill.edu


Mark Tuschman has worked as an international freelance photographer for more than 34 years. As a photographer committed to issues of global health and development, he was privileged to receive the Photographer of the Year award from the Global Health Council in 2009-2010.

His work includes Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge, published in 2015 and documented the lack of autonomy that women and girls face in the developing world and all the efforts designed to empower them. Faces of Courage was recognized as one of the Best Photographic Books of the Year by American Photographer.

In 2018, Mark started another extended project documenting the contributions immigrants make to America. Together We Rise: Immigrants in America will be published in 2024. Over the years, Mark has become more motivated to use his photography to communicate in a more socially conscious way, a way that exposes people to both the degree of human suffering that exists in today’s world and the courage and fortitude that people manifest to overcome it.

INSIGHT/INCITE 20/20

Event Type: SHOW

2024-02-03 to 2024-03-31  

Bolinas Museum

48 Wharf Road, Bolinas, CA 94924

Event is Free

Hours: Fri 1:00 PM-5:00 PM;  Sat - Sun 12:00 PM-5:00 PM;  

For more information:

phone: (415) 868-0330
email: info@bolinasmuseum.org
website: www.bolinasmuseum.org


This powerful exhibition presents a collection of incisive images and personal statements from the diverse perspectives of each photographer’s identity and background.

The photos speak to humanity’s challenges, hope, and resilience as we grapple with daunting political, cultural, environmental, and humanitarian issues.

The collection, curated by distinguished photographer Linda Connor, was created as a PhotoAlliance Portfolio, honoring the organization’s service to the San Francisco Bay Area’s prolific photography community. Connor selected works embodying insight, which incites us to respond with action.

Linda Connor is an internationally renowned photographer who taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1969 and is the founder and creative director of the PhotoAlliance in San Francisco. Her photographs are held in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States and Europe.

ABOVE AND BELOW CALIFORNIA’S OCEAN, THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF MARC SHARGEL

Event Type: SHOW

2024-01-02 to 2024-03-29  

Felton Public Library

6121 Gushee St., Felton, CA 95018

Event is Free

Hours: Mon - Thu 10:00 AM-6:00 PM;  Fri - Sat 10:00 AM-5:00 PM;  

For more information:

phone: (831) 427-7708
email: feltonlibraryfriends@gmail.com
website: https://santacruzpl.libcal.com/calendar


The exhibit features images of local marine life and drastic changes in ecology, plus iconic western landscapes and eclipse photography.

Shargel is an award-winning nature photographer, marine conservationist and author of the three-volume Wonders of the Sea coffee-table series of books.

The library is open to the public 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday thru Thursday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Marc Shargel has taken his cameras underwater to photograph sharks, jellies, and kelp forests. On land he has made vivid images of eclipses and the great landscapes of the American West. As a scuba diver, he has been watching ecological shifts in the Central California Pacific since the 1970s.

Shargel has made photographic art from encounters with marine life ranging from tiny snails, to schools of jellies, to huge sharks. This is an Egg-Yolk Jelly that he found in Carmel Bay in 1999. Shargel will highlight the most extreme, recent changes seen fro

LOOKING UP: PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBEL FESSEHATZION

Event Type: SHOW

2024-02-02 to 2024-03-31  

FootHill College

12345 El Monte Rd, Building 6100 Gallery, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

Event is Free

Hours: Mon 9:00 AM-5:00 PM;  Tue 9:00 AM-7:00 PM;  Wed 9:00 AM-5:00 PM;  Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM;  Fri 9:00 AM-5:00 PM;  Sat 10:30 AM-4:00 PM;  

For more information:

phone: (650) 949-7318
email: jordahlkate@fhda.edu
website: www.foothill.edu


Robel Fessehatzion is a self-taught African-American photographer and a member of the African diaspora (Ethiopia) based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Influenced by his upbringing near the foothills of the northern Sierra, his work focuses on the natural environment, identity, marginalization, and portraiture.

His creative research seeks to transform the landscape into a place of belonging by highlighting the harmony between existing elements while thoughtfully incorporating natural light and color within the frame. He is highly trained as a specialist in renewable energy technology development and most recently supported the capacity expansion of Covid-19 rapid PCR tests. When not outside in nature, he enjoys spending time with family and friends and watching basketball.

Join us in person on February 2 or on Zoom on March 6 to hear more about Robel's photography and journey.

JUDY DATER: PROPHETS AND POETS

Event Type: SHOW

2024-02-08 to 2024-03-30  

Modernism

724 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

Event is Free

Hours: Tue - Sat 10:00 AM-5:30 PM;  

For more information:

phone: (415) 541-0461
email: info@modernisminc.com
website: www.modernisminc.com


Judy Dater’s subjects are her cast of characters, she chooses them instinctively for what she perceives to be their ability to express emotions, to be playful, sexy and humorous, and to reveal what she identifies as soul. Her work transcends the personal and creates a universal language of expression that the viewer can identify, connect, and empathize with on an intuitive level. The human face is infinite in its variety. Dater finds her subjects (from Maxine Hong Kingston to Imogen Cunningham to name a couple) anywhere and everywhere, from standing in line to buy bread in Berkeley, California, to meeting someone on the street in Tokyo, or a cafe in Cairo, to stepping out of an elevator in Rome. “The excitement and delight I experience when I see a face that I want to possess allows me to overcome my inhibition and approach them, but not always. There are the ones that "got away." We live in a time of virtual experience where we can distance ourselves from the uncomfortable realities around us. I crave the authentic and revel in the messiness and complexity of human feelings and emotions.”

PAUL CAPONIGRO (B.1932)

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-01-31   to 2024-03-31  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (707) 343-1928
email: info@scottnicholsgallery.com
website: www.scottnicholsgallery.com


Click HERE to view the photographs

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

Event Type: ARTIST TALK

2024-02-05 to 2024-04-06  

Leica Store and Gallery

463 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Event is Free

Hours: Mon - Fri 10:00 AM-6:00 PM;  Sat 10:00 AM-4:00 PM;  

For more information:

phone: (415) 801-5066
email: gallery@leicastoresf.com
website: www.leicastoresf.com


The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco is excited to announce This Must Be The Place, an exhibition of visual stories about cities, landmarks and people of the Bay Area. The exhibition includes photographs by Brian L Frank, Jake Ricker, and Brandon Ruffin. Through a series of individual bodies of work, This Must Be The Place explores the possibilities and implications of the boundless energy between artists and their beloved cities.

TAMAS DEZSO: EVERYTHING IS LEAF

Event Type: SHOW

2024-02-08 to 2024-03-30  

Robert Koch Gallery

49 Geary Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108

Event is Free

Hours: Mon - Fri 11:00 AM-5:30 PM;  

For more information:

phone: (415) 421-0122
email: info@kochgalley.com
website: www.kochgallery.com


The Robert Koch Gallery proudly unveils its fourth exhibition featuring the works of Hungarian artist Tamas Dezsö. His latest series, titled Everything is Leaf, embarks on a philosophical journey that intertwines human identity with the natural world, exploring themes of materiality, temporality, and ecological consciousness.

Everything is Leaf includes vibrant, large-scale botanical abstractions translated from slides of microscopic plant studies. The viewer is able to newly appreciate the complex and elegant anatomy of plant life. A lush, close-up image of a wildly intertwining garden, neglected for decades, reveals plants’ uncanny ability to persist without human aid. Dezsö’s work brings to light an appreciation for plant life’s extraordinary structure and capabilities, not dissimilar to human characteristics such as the ability to grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli, undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, and adapt to our environment.

Initially inspired by the writings of 17th-century German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Dezsö explores the idea that each leaf embodies the entire Universe. The series prompts reflection on human and vegetal identity, as explored by thinkers such as John Locke and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Dezsö comments on the influence of these philosophers, particularly Locke, who questioned the essence of human and vegetal existence. The exhibition encourages a reevaluation of plants’ significance in the face of the climate crisis, emphasizing their role in sustaining the planet and our interconnectedness as living organisms, a part of a greater whole.


ROB GAILEY: PHOTOMICROGRAPHS REVEAL STORIES WITHIN ROCKS

Event Type: SHOW

2024-02-03 to 2024-03-31  

Bolinas Museum

48 Wharf Road, Bolinas, CA 94924

Event is Free

Hours: Fri 1:00 PM-5:00 PM;  Sat - Sun 12:00 PM-5:00 PM;  

For more information:

phone: (415) 868-0330
email: info@bolinasmuseum.org
website: www.bolinasmuseum.org


Geologist Rob Gailey photographs extremely thin slices of rocks using a petrographic microscope. Beautiful and complex images reveal groupings of minerals and textures created by geological processes. The rocks, primarily from West Marin and a few extraordinary exotics, tell stories of time spans and powerful physical conditions of pressure and heat not encountered in human experience. This fascinating exhibition–mixing visual images and science—is explained within the context of Bay Area geology and provides new perspectives on the world around us, including the rocks under our feet.

2ND ANNUAL QUEER CONSCIENCE GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES

2024-02-06   to 2024-04-05   11:59 PM

The Image Flow

328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960

up to 5 submissions   $35.00

For more information:

phone: (415) 388-3569
email: info@theimageflow.com
website: www.theimageflow.com


We are excited to announce that The Image Flow is now accepting submissions for our 2nd annual Queer Conscience group photography exhibition focused on providing a platform for all LGBTQIA2+ artists exploring the photographic medium.

Following the success and incredible breadth of work we received during our inaugural call for entry in 2023, we are committed to providing opportunities for historically underrepresented artists whose creative practice intersects with themes of queerness and queer identities.

Click HERE for more information and to register

Our guest juror this year is Steffan Schlarb, a former Creative Director now dedicated to fostering a thriving LGBTQ+ arts scene as the Director and Co-founder of Schlomer Haus Gallery located in the historic Castro District of San Francisco.

DARKROOM PRINT FINISHING

Event Type: WORKSHOP

2024-03-30   1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

East Bay Photo Collective

412 13th Street, EBPCO Community Darkroom, Oakland, CA 94612

General Admission   $60.00

For more information:

email: ebpco510@gmail.com
website: www.ebpco.org


This one day workshop will be held at the EBPCO Community Darkroom and lead by Jyoti Liggin. Signup info at ebpco.org/workshops

Get that pile of black & white darkroom prints out of the box in your closet! In this one day workshop, an instructor will guide you through a variety of darkroom print finishing techniques. Topics covered include hand-retouching (aka spotting), pressing, and dry-mounting prints. Bring your own darkroom prints to work with for this workshop or use some of ours. All other materials for this workshop are available through EBPCO!

EBPCO Members at the Basic level receive a 20% discount off this workshop; members at the Premium level receive a 50% discount!

MARC RIBOUD (B.1923)

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-02-11   to 2024-03-31  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (707) 343-1928
email: info@scottnicholsgallery.com
website: www.scottnicholsgallery.com


Click HERE to see the photographs

PRESTON GANNAWAY IN CONVERSATION WITH SHANA LOPES, PHD., ASSISTANT CURATOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT SFMOMA

Event Type: ARTIST TALK

2024-04-04   6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Chung 24 Gallery

4071 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (415) 795-1643
email: info@chung24gallery.com
website: www.chung24gallery.com


Chung 24 presents Remember Me, a solo show of works by Bay Area artist and Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer Preston Gannaway.

The power of photography as a storytelling medium is well-represented in Gannaway's ongoing series Remember Me, now in its 19th year. From intimate portraits to alluring landscape to everyday vernacular photography, Gannaway takes the viewers on an emotional journey with images that feel, at times, voyeuristic and confronting. The use of color as a thread throughout the series is subtle yet observable like specks in the air.

The series began in 2006 as a story for a New Hampshire newspaper, The Concord Monitor, which followed the St. Pierre family as they navigated through the processes of illness, death and grief. What could have ended with death of the mother evolved into the beginning of a longitudinal visual narrative focusing on the coming of age of the youngest child, a 4-year old boy. The honesty and rawness of emotions come through consistently in images spanning nearly two decades; there are no glossing over the rough edges nor overly-orchestrated sentimental shots. Gannaway is not telling a tale about a motherless boy in a place far, far away; she is showing us a universally-relatable human story of life, loss and remembrance. Photos from the beginning of Remember Me earned Preston Gannaway the Pulitzer Prize in Featured Photography in 2008

Remember Me was published by GOST in 2023, the nearly sold-out photobook was named amongst the best in 2023 by Smithsonian Magazine and LensCulture.

Q&A SESSION: AJA COOPER IN CONVERSATION WITH EAST BAY YESTERDAY’S LIAM O’DONOGHUE DUSCUSS RAYMOND COOPER’S OAKLAND

Event Type: LECTURE

2024-04-05   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

East Bay Photo Collective

312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210

Event is Free

For more information:

email: ebpco510@gmail.com
website: www.ebpco.org


In July of 2021, Oakland skateboarder Ben Tolford noticed an unusual pile of trash on the street: binders full of photographic slides, hundreds of images apparently taken in Oakland in the 1970s and 80s.. Handwriting on the slides identified the photographer as Raymond Cooper.

Tolford eventually found Aja Cooper, Raymond’s daughter, and learned that Raymond Cooper had been a professional photographer in Oakland from the 70s into the 90s. Cooper’s photo archive was damaged in a house fire in 1990 and, even worse, stolen in a burglary in 2021, years after Cooper had passed away.

Aja had been devastated to lose this connection to her father and important documentation of Oakland’s history. She was, of course, overjoyed that some of the lost archive was recovered. This amazing story was first documented by Liam O’Donoghue in his podcast East Bay Yesterday, followed by an article in SF Gate in October 2022.

East Bay Photo Collective is proud to announce a collaboration with Aja Cooper for the first-ever exhibition of her father’s lost work. Thousands of images were scanned, with a curated selection reprinted for this exhibition. Cooper’s recovered archive gives a rare glimpse into Oakland's recent history, exploring in wonderful and colorful detail the fashion, hair styles, and street scene of the era as well as Cooper’s own experimental photographic work and family photographs.

FORECAST 2024

Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES

2024-02-16   to 2024-03-29   11:59 PM

SF Camerawork

Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd. Building A, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (415) 487-1011
email: info@sfcamerawork.org
website: www.sfcamerawork.org


We invite you to submit work for FORECAST 2024, SF Camerawork’s survey of contemporary photography! This year’s acclaimed jurors, Rea Lynn de Guzman and Maggie Dethloff, will consider all works within the expanded field of photography, from traditional to experimental, with a focus on recently completed, thought-provoking projects. The work of up to six artists will be selected for a group exhibition at SF Camerawork’s gallery in San Francisco, and one artist will win the $1,500 Juror’s Choice Award.

EXHIBITION DATES: July 16 — September 7, 2024

Click HERE for more information and to apply

BODIES OF WORK: KATINKA HERBERT

Event Type: SHOW

2024-03-02 to 2024-04-10  

Harvey Milk Photography Center

50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117

Event is Free

Hours: Tue - Thu 3:00 PM-8:30 PM;  Sat 11:00 AM-4:30 PM;  Sun 12:00 AM-12:00 AM;  

For more information:

phone: (415) 554-9522
email: harveymilkphotocenter@gmail.com
website: harveymilkphotocenter.org


This exhibition explores the commodification of athletic bodies. Bringing two projects into dialogue, Katinka Herbert delves into the lives of Mexican wrestlers and Cuban athletes. In doing so, her images capture the dilemma of physical performance: a tense relationship between economic necessity and the human form.

While some athletes experience their bodies as vehicles of financial stability and international travel, many grapple with unpredictable incomes, visa barriers, and the looming threat of career-ending injuries. As such, ‘Bodies of Work’ is a study of precarious labor. Here, lives that are ordinarily defined by movement are frozen in the photographic frame. Their muscles resonate with tension and potential; their poses strain under personal and political weight.

‘Slam’ This project offers unprecedented access to the stars of the Mexican wrestling scene. Notoriously secretive about their true identities, it follows these hyper-masculine stars from the drama of the ring to the intimacy of their own homes. Eight years in the making, Slam is a story of trust. In documenting each costumed character, the project unmasks their private lives and alter-egos. Because concealed behind each disguise, many legends of Lucha Libre are a mess. Their foreheads are covered in scar tissue, their lives are marked by self-harm. This series brings a dignified lens to the characters hidden behind a uniquely Mexican ritual of performance, spectacle and machismo.

‘The Movers’ This project explores the subject of mobility through portraits of Cuba’s top athletes. Their lives are dictated by movement: running, dancing, leaping and jumping. For a lucky few, this opens up new kinds of mobility – geographic, economic and social. But most of them remain trapped: frozen inside a communist regime. The Movers captures this dilemma. Each subject is perfectly motionless within the frame. Each static body resonates with tension and potential. Their bodies are either a means of escape – a ticket to freedom – or the very obstacle to it.

This exhibition invites us to consider the labor conditions that determine the lives of professional athletes, and the economic architectures that construct their performing bodies. These are bodies under tension: suspended between action and transaction, poised between freedom and constraint.

A COUNTRY CALLED CALIFORNIA: PHOTOGRAPHS 1850'S TO 1960'S

Event Type: ONLINE VIDEO

2024-02-24   to 2024-03-31  

California Historical Society

678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (415) 357-1848
email: info@calhist.org
website: www.californiahistoricalsociety.org


Click HERE to view

Photography collector Stephen White and curator Jonathan Spaulding discuss A Country Called California: Photographs 1850s to 1960s, a new book that traces the development of the Golden State from the nineteenth century to its emergence as the fifth-largest economy in the world as seen through the lenses of California photographers.

FEBRUARY PHOTO OF THE MONTH WINNER AND HMS

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-02-24   to 2024-03-31  

The Image Flow

328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (415) 388-3569
email: info@theimageflow.com
website: www.theimageflow.com


Click HERE to view the exhibit

Photo of the Month Winner – Veronik Mol

Juried By: The Image Flow

The Image Flow is pleased to present the results of our January Photo of the Month – Abstract contest!

We evaluated a vast array of submissions based on composition, color, contrast, and overall quality. In addition to technical components, we considered the subject of interest, point of view, and whether the image tells a story aligned with our theme.

Under the theme of Abstract, this monthly competition was open to professional and amateur photographers globally.

BFA SENIOR THESIS CONVERSATIONS - PHOTOGRAPHY

Event Type: ONLINE ARTIST TALK

2024-04-10   4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

California College of the Arts

1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (415) 703-9500
email: exhibitions@cca.edu
website: www.cca.edu


Zoom Link or https://cca.zoom.us/j/94480162653

BFA Senior Thesis Conversations are live virtual events where graduating students from CCA's Photography, Individualized Studies, Jewelry and Metal Arts, Ceramics, Painting and Drawing, Textiles, Printmedia, and Sculpture programs publicly share their capstone work.

Each event features student presentations, art professionals' responses, and discussion time. Through this online presentation, we celebrate each student’s dedication to art-making during their time at CCA and provide a way for family, friends, and the general public to connect with and celebrate student work. Events will be recorded and posted afterward to allow for greater access.

FEATURING:

  • Roy Almanza
  • Annabel De Vries
  • Zoe Loa
  • Leo Burr
  • Madison Sawyer Hosted by: Chris Johnson

ONLINE SHOW AND TELL: LOST & FOUND PHOTOGRAPHY, INSPIRED BY THE RAYMOND COOPER ARCHIVE

Event Type: ONLINE WORKSHOP

2024-04-02   7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

East Bay Photo Collective

312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210

Event is Free

For more information:

email: ebpco510@gmail.com
website: www.ebpco.org


Theme: Lost & Found Photography, Inspired by the Raymond Cooper Archive and the current OPW exhibition, Raymond Cooper's Oakland.

Dig through your own archive and see what forgotten gems you might find. Are there projects you put aside, locations you don't remember visiting, people you haven't thought about? Dig 'em up and show 'em off.

Hosted by Vince Donovan.

Click HERE to sign up

RAYMOND COOPER'S OAKLAND: Q&A SESSION WITH AJA COOPER IN COVERSATION WITH LIAM O’DONOGHUE

Event Type: ARTIST TALK

2024-04-05   7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

East Bay Photo Collective

312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210

Event is Free

For more information:

email: ebpco510@gmail.com
website: www.ebpco.org


Raymond Cooper lived and photographed in Oakland in the 1970s and 80s, but his archive of thousands of images was damaged by fire and then lost in a burglary. Some images were later found on the street and returned to the Cooper family. This exhibit shows over 100 of his recovered works, exploring in wonderful and colorful detail the fashion, hair styles, and street scene of the era as well as Cooper’s own experimental photographic work and family history.

Join us for a conversation with Raymond Cooper’s daughter Aja Cooper, and learn about her mission to preserve her father’s creative and cultural legacy. She’ll be talking to Bay Area writer and historian Liam O’Donoghue in his podcast East Bay Yesterday, followed by an article in SF Gate in October 2022.

This is a free event, but tickets are required. Click here to get yours!

APRIL PHOTO WALK

Event Type: PHOTO WALK

2024-04-07   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

East Bay Photo Collective

Camron-Stanford House, 1418 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA 94612

Event is Free

For more information:

email: ebpco510@gmail.com
website: www.ebpco.org


Bring any camera you like, and be prepared to wander and shoot for up to an hour.

This month we'll be visiting Oakland's historic Camron-Stanford House! We will have access to the beautiful interior rooms, as well as the lovely garden and surrounding grounds, with an on-site docent to answer any questions we may have. We are also planning our first-ever photo scavenger hunt!

EBPCO's bimonthly photo walks are a great way to connect with other photographers while exploring and photographing an interesting Oakland location.

Our photo walks are free and OPEN TO ALL! Bring your camera(s) and your creativity. All cameras welcome, including phones.

The Camron-Stanford House is the last of the beautiful Victorian mansions that once surrounded Lake Merritt, and was the home to five influential families before becoming the first museum in the City of Oakland.

The restored home helps visitors time travel to the 1880s and enter meticulously recreated living spaces while learning about the early days of Oakland as a city. In addition, the house presents various exhibits throughout the year that focus on aspects of life and culture in the 19th century and Oakland history.

THE FACING SEASIDE III EXHIBITION

Event Type: SHOW

2024-04-11   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Weston Collective

1713 Broadway Ave, Suite B5, Seaside, CA 93955

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (831) 233-2100
email: Zach@thewestoncollective.org
website: www.thewestoncollective.org


Photography is a vital tool in telling the story of a person or place, helping others better understand an individual's account of cultural practices, experiences, and traditions. The "Facing Seaside" project and exhibition exemplify how, through photography, the Weston Collective (TWC) promotes inclusion. "Facing Seaside III" demonstrates how photography can overcome barriers, showing that a photograph is made from someone's inner intention and thought, not dictated by their background.

“Facing Seaside” is an ongoing project at TWC that brings together local businesses, community members, artists, and students through photography and visual storytelling. The exhibition of photographs culminates a collaborative project with elementary school students, their teachers, and local businesses in Seaside. The artworks in the show will include digital photos by fifth and sixth-grade students in TWC's after-school program at the Martin Luther King Jr. School of the Arts as well as 8th grade students of the Dual Language Academy in Seaside.

RSVP to zach@thewestoncollective.org

WYNN BULLOCK (1902–1975)

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-02-24   to 2024-03-31  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (707) 343-1928
email: info@scottnicholsgallery.com
website: www.scottnicholsgallery.com


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BRETT WESTON (1911-1993)

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-02-24   to 2024-03-31  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (707) 343-1928
email: info@scottnicholsgallery.com
website: www.scottnicholsgallery.com


Click HERE to view the Photographs

BEN NIXON

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-02-27   to 2024-04-10  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (707) 343-1928
email: info@scottnicholsgallery.com
website: www.scottnicholsgallery.com


These photographs were taken with a large format view camera, produced from a wet collodion glass negative and printed by the artist. Ben Nixon's antiquarian style of photography follows the production techniques used by Carleton Watkins and other photographers from the late 1800's.

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MAVERICK PHOTOGRAPHERS

Event Type: SHOW

2024-03-01 to 2024-04-05  

Art Ark

1035 S. 6th Street, San Jose, CA 95112

Event is Free

Hours:

For more information:

email: genevieve.hastings.artark@gmail.com
website: www.artarkgallery.com


Artists: Alex Baranda, Annette LeMay Burke, Michael L. Boyd, Dan Fenstermacher, Dan Forzano, Agnieszka Jakubowicz, Jacque Rupp

Maverick Photographers is a group of exhibiting artists that support each other's exploration of storytelling through the visual arts. Based in Silicon Valley, the collective fosters photographic growth through an atmosphere of inspiration and experimentation.

CLOSING RECEPTION FOR MAVERICK PHOTOGRAPHERS

Event Type: OPENING

2024-04-05   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Art Ark

1035 S. 6th Street, San Jose, CA 95112

Event is Free

For more information:

email: genevieve.hastings.artark@gmail.com
website: www.artarkgallery.com


Artists: Alex Baranda, Annette LeMay Burke, Michael L. Boyd, Dan Fenstermacher, Dan Forzano, Agnieszka Jakubowicz, Jacque Rupp

Maverick Photographers is a group of exhibiting artists that support each other's exploration of storytelling through the visual arts. Based in Silicon Valley, the collective fosters photographic growth through an atmosphere of inspiration and experimentation.

JOIN THE EBPCO LARGE FORMAT CLUB

Event Type: EXPERIENCE

2024-02-29   to 2024-03-31  

East Bay Photo Collective

312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210

Event is Free

For more information:

email: ebpco510@gmail.com
website: www.ebpco.org


Click HERE to sign up

After months of hints and rumors, it’s finally happening: a support group for large-format shooters and the large-format curious. Meetups, field trips and all sorts of photo-friendship are in store.

We’ll need help running this group, so if you’re naturally organized (as most large format photogs are), please let us know if you’re available to help out.

STUDIO PORTRAITS & LIGHTING MADE EASY

Event Type: CLASS

2024-03-12   6:00 PM to 2024-04-02   8:00 PM

ImageCentral

1099 E Street, Hayward, CA 94541

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (510) 881-6721
email: imagecentral@haywardrec.org
website: www.haywardrec.org


with photographer Russell Foote!

In this class, you will learn lighting for portraiture, as well as posing, light set up, starting with one light up to a five light set up! Tips and techniques from lighting modifiers to head shots. Utilizing a live model with clothing changes for different looks, styles and problem solving in a studio situation. Students must have basic understanding of their camera functions and manual control of aperture & shutter.

Click HERE to enroll

THE 2024 SEASIDE YOUTH ART COMPETITION

Event Type: OPENING

2024-04-05   7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

The Weston Collective

The Avery Gallery in Seaside City Hall, 440 Harcourt Ave, Seaside, CA 93955

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (831) 233-2100
email: Zach@thewestoncollective.org
website: www.thewestoncollective.org


We are so excited for the annual Seaside Youth Art Competition at the Avery Gallery in Seaside City Hall. Students of the Weston Collective from Martin Luther King Jr. School of the Arts and the Dual Language Academy. Hope to see you there!

AN EVENING WITH PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES NACHTWEY

Event Type: LECTURE

2024-04-09   7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

UC Berkeley School of Journalism

Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (510) 642-3383
email: juliehirano@berkeley.edu
website: journalism.berkeley.edu/events/


UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism cordially invites you to the annual FOTOVISION LECTURE.

Experience an evening with iconic photographer James Nachtwey. Hear his captivating stories and gain insight into his remarkable career.

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Doors open: 6:30pm

CALL FOR ENTRY: PHOTO OF THE MONTH – LIGHT

Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES

2024-03-15   to 2024-04-03   11:59 PM

The Image Flow

328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (415) 388-3569
email: info@theimageflow.com
website: www.theimageflow.com


We’re excited to announce our Image of the Month photo contest for March: Light! Submission is free and only images uploaded this month are eligible, so keep submitting new photographs. Beyond being featured in our gallery, newsletter, and bragging rights, the winner will receive a 16×20 giclée paper print. The moral of the story – upload awesome images every month! The Image Flow will evaluate each submission on composition, color, contrast, and overall quality when making their selections. In addition to technical components, they will also consider subject interest, point of view, and whether the image tells a story. Under this months theme of Light, the competition is open to professional and amateur photographers globally.

LIGHT For this month’s submissions, we are challenging photographers to capture images that use light as a subject. These images should demonstrate awareness of the lighting’s direction and quantity. Ask yourself, does the lighting within your photographs arouse curiosity and direct the viewer’s eye? Show us your favorite photos demonstrating masterful illustration of the concept of ‘light’.

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CAROL KINO & TONY BRAVO IN CONVERSATION: DOUBLE CLICK

Event Type: BOOK SIGNING

2024-04-06   3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Minnesota Street Project

1275 Minnesota Street, Atrium, San Francisco, CA 94107

Event is Free

For more information:

phone: (415) 243-0825
email: info@minnesotastreetproject.com
website: minnesotastreetproject.com


Minnesota Street Project presents a special conversation with acclaimed arts writers Carol Kino and Tony Bravo. On the occasion of the publication of Kino’s first book Double Click, a riveting dual biography about identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking photographers in New York during the glamorous magazine golden age of the 1930s and 40s, these two creative thinkers will dive deep into the book’s themes of photography, journalism, fashion, and more.

Copies of the book will be available for sale courtesy of Christopher’s Books. There will be an opportunity for a signing by the author immediately following the program.

To RSVP, email info@minnesotastreetproject.com

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, author Carol Kino provides us with a fascinating window into the golden era of magazine photography and the first young women’s publications, bringing these two brilliant women and their remarkable accomplishments to vivid life. Pulling back the curtain on an electric, creative time in New York’s history, and rich with original research, Double Click is cultural reportage and biography at its finest.