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
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!
Join us for a closing reception for Gomez Was Here! Guest Curator, Vero Majano, will be joined by the artists to answer your questions, discuss their bodies of work, and discuss street art as inspiration.
The talk will officially start around 3:30 and guests will have time after to view the work and mingle!
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 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.
REGISTER HERE | This workshop is FREE and open to all, though advanced sign up is required.
WITH JYOTI LIGGIN AT THE EBPCO COMMUNITY DARKROOM
This 4 week course is for those who are comfortable shooting 35mm film but have no previous experience in a black & white darkroom. Throughout the course, an instructor will guide you through the basics of darkroom processes, including processing black & white film, contact printing, and enlargement printing. Participants must bring an exposed but unprocessed roll of film to work with for the first class. All other materials for this course are provided by EBPCO!
Class Full! JOIN WAITLIST | ENROLLMENT FEE: $220* | MATERIALS FEE: $30
*Current EBPCO members may receive enrollment fee discounts with valid code entered at checkout
WITH BRENNA HANSEN AT THE EBPCO COMMUNITY DARKROOM
Push your photographic work into the realm of sculpture! Liquid emulsion is a bottled version of the light sensitive coating normally found on darkroom photo paper. It can be applied to a variety of materials, allowing images to be made on the surface of just about any object. In this workshop, learn the fundamentals by printing enlarged black & white film negatives onto wood, fabric, ceramic, and more. Participants must have previous experience with traditional darkroom enlargement printing and bring their own 35mm black & white negatives to print. All other materials are provided by EBPCO!
Class Full! JOIN WAITLIST | ENROLLMENT FEE: $85* | MATERIALS FEE: $20
*Current EBPCO members may receive enrollment fee discounts with valid code entered at checkout
WORKSHOPS
IN THE GALLERY
Growing up in the Mission District of San Francisco, ‘Gomez was here’ was the first graffiti tag that caught my attention. ‘Gomez’ was everywhere - in between the buildings and walls of the Mission, on MUNI, at Juvenile Hall, carved into benches. This tag and practice have influenced my multi-disciplinary practice of collecting stories of the streets and archiving them through experimental film, live cinema, photography, collage, and assemblage.
When I was asked to curate this show, it was an opportunity for me to put photography in conversation with a diversity of visual experiences of the streets and other moments that might not always be exhibited together (or in strictly photographic spaces).
Whether it is through archiving their first rolls of shooting film, their walking meditation as they move through the city, their young queer moments, or their unique perspective on passengers on a MUNI journey - the artists in this show are part of the visual Rolodex in my mind.
This exhibition features the work of Hernán Martinez, Julian Marin, Kari Orvik, leena joshi, and Tatiana Rivas. Learn more about the artists and artwork here.