East Bay Photo Collective
An Oakland-based creative arts non-profit providing inspiration, education, and community through the art and craft of photography.
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An Oakland-based creative arts non-profit providing inspiration, education, and community through the art and craft of photography.
FEATURED EVENTS
It’s Photo Walk Time!
We will be meeting on the first Sunday of the month! Bring any camera you like, and be prepared to wander and shoot for up to an hour.
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.
Please join us at Telegraph Beer Garden for a low-key gathering. This is a chance to mingle and meet some fellow photographers, and talk about photography, or whatever else strikes our fancy!
It’s Photo Walk Time!
We will be meeting on the first Sunday of the month! Bring any camera you like, and be prepared to wander and shoot for up to an hour.
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.
WITH JAYA BHAT AT OAKLAND PHOTO WORKSHOP
If you think a zine is just a printed pamphlet, get ready to open your mind! In this one day workshop, Jaya will present a variety of zine making techniques, ranging from the more “traditional” to the most unexpected and experimental formats. You’ll get a taste of what goes into digital zine layouts as well as getting hands-on with your own DIY zine mock up.
Join Waitlist | ENROLLMENT FEE: $50* | MATERIALS FEE: $10
*Current EBPCO members may receive enrollment fee discounts with valid code entered at checkout
WITH GUEST LEADER ELLEN SHERSHOW AND FACILITATOR BOB SHONKOFF AT OAKLAND PHOTO WORKSHOP
This session is open to EBPCO members only. If you don’t have a membership, you can start one HERE. Join us at Oakland Photo Workshop to discuss your photo projects and works in progress. The goals of these in-person sessions are to create a supportive space to give and receive constructive feedback on projects in all areas of photography currently being developed. Participants will also practice speaking about their art as well as the art of others. We also encourage participants in our workshops to attend and share what you made and are working on!
Join Waitlist | This is a FREE event, but advance registration is required.
WITH PHILIP KRAYNA AT OAKLAND PHOTO WORKSHOP
Do you have a film camera collecting dust in an attic, inherited from a relative, or recently purchased at a yard sale or on eBay? Bring your cameras and questions to this informal workshop where EPBCO member and film camera obsessive Philip Krayna (aka “Dr. Philm) will test and assess your camera, explain how to use it, and help with minor repairs if possible, so you can start enjoying the magic of film photography.
Join Waitlist | This workshop is FREE and open to all, though advanced sign up is required.
WORKSHOPS
IN THE GALLERY
The California Central Valley is more than the giant open fields we cross when driving down from San Francisco to Los Angeles via Interstate 5. It is a place of beauty and complexity, a land of contrast undergoing rapid changes: a housing frenzy, an alternance of droughts and floods, vibrant yet struggling migrant communities, immense fields producing half of the fruits and vegetables of the US, all surrounded by stunning natural beauty. This place has always fascinated artists (from Dorothea Lange to Jack Kerouac, Robert Dawson, and Stephen Johnson) and keeps doing so today. By featuring certain works done in the 1930s by Dorothea Lange and putting them into perspective with today’s works, this show will be an invitation to explore the Central Valley over a century.
This East Bay Photo Collective exhibition, curated by Claire Maen, brings together 6 photographers and one ceramicist from the Bay Area, the Central Valley, and Los Angeles who use photography to explore this land of extremes. The show will be visible from February to March 2026 at the EBPCO Gallery in Oakland, CA.