Meet

the Board

  • BOARD PRESIDENT

    Jenny Sampson is a Berkeley-based photographer. Her focus is wet plate collodion and traditional black and white photography. Sampson is a member of the Rolls and Tubes photographic collective. Her work has exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom and has been published in Zyzzyva, Analog Forever Magazine, BBC, GirlTalkHQ, The Hand, SHOTS Magazine, All About Photography Magazine, Lenscratch, The Guardian, The Eye of Photography, PDN and Visual Communications Quarterly. Sampson has two monographs, Skaters (2017) and Skater Girls (2020) published by Daylight Books. Skater Girls received Book of the Month from Leica Fotographie International in September 2020 and is in the Smithsonian Library Collection. The Rolls and Tubes Collective published their book, A History of Photography, in October 2021. Sampson’s photographic work is included in the Candela Collection and other private collections, and her books are included numerous public collections.

  • BOARD TREASURER

    Vince is a photo mad-scientist, exploring, experimenting, and teaching traditional photographic media, techniques and processes. In 2011 he co-founded, with Michael Shindler, Photobooth SF, the first West Coast tintype studio in over 100 years. Vince also worked in the Gallery at Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, and was in-house event photographer. His long-term portrait series, Cities of Faith, now extends to four different houses of worship in San Francisco and incorporates nearly a thousand portraits.


  • CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Anita has had a passion for cinema and photography her entire life, and has been involved with the Bay Area photo community for over two decades, through her work at Berkeley's Looking Glass Photo, and her association with various characters in the local photography scene. While she often talks about her struggle with creative blocks, she also treasures her new World’s Greatest Photographer mug, as it’s always useful to have a goal to work towards. Anita co-founded the East Bay Photo Collective with Vince Donovan in 2017 and has been delighted to help nurture its growth over the years. In addition to board and committee duties she hosts EBPCO’s monthly photo walks and oversees EBPCO’s social media presence.

  • BOARD MEMBER

    I’ve always been a photographer and a keeper of moments. As a child with a 110 camera photographing family vacations, with my first Nikon SLR in high school, learning B&W film processing and printing; then pursuing degrees in journalism and art from SJSU. I spent 13 years as a photojournalist all around the San Francisco Bay Area; including as staff photographer at Antioch Ledger, Valley Times and San Francisco Chronicle.

    In 2002 I shifted my focus to dogs as the Dogumentarian, creating black and white documentary style dog portraits, mostly analog. Since then I have photographed hundreds of dogs, both for private commissions and book and magazine clients. I’ve had solo shows of my fine art dog photography in SF, Oakland, Palo Alto, Jackson WY and Scottsdale AZ.

  • BOARD MEMBER

    Ellen Shershow is a commercial and fine arts photographer based in Oakland, California. She is widely considered the San Francisco Bay Area’s top pet photographer.

    She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and her Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been published and exhibited nationally. She has been profiled on NPR’s Marketplace, La Magazine and Slate, and spoke at Today at Apple as part of Apple’s photo lab. She was a resident artist at the Light Grey Art Lab Iceland Program in 2017-2019 and had a studio lab residency at Oakland Pro Arts in 2017.

    Ellen previously served as President of the SF CameraWork Board of Directors. Prior to that, she served as the chair of the SF Camerawork Benefit Auction where she raised over $100,000 for this important Bay Area institution. She also served as President of the Board of Directors at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, helping to support emerging artists and provide expertise and contacts to promote their work.

  • BOARD MEMBER

    Brian Brooks says he is always carrying "too many cameras", but that seems to be just the right number for him. Brian photographs with many formats, film as well as digital, and he is one of the preeminent Polaroid artists in the US. Brian also wears many hats: in addition to being a dedicated father and committed artist, Brian is co-owner of Underdog Film Lab, founder of the SF Instant Camera Walk ( now in its 10th year), founder of PolaconSF, and a founding member (and now Board Member) of the East Bay Photo Collective.