Curate an Exhibition

Oakland Photo Workshop’s first exhibition of 2023 celebrates the best of East Bay Photo Collective’s Film Swap Show and Tells.

Exhibiting Artists

Anita Gay - Gene X Hwang - Myleen Hollero - Fairlight de Michele - Ryan Noonan - Ernie Luppi - Ronald Orlando - Jenny Sampson - Marvin Moser - Philip Krayna - Jessica Greaux - Lucas Yan - J.M. Golding - Al Brydon - Alex Drysdale - Vince Donovan - Brian Shapiro - Hannah Rohret

What does family mean to you? Is it the people who raised you? The friends you’ve made? Members of your church, your fellow sports-fans, your kids, your neighbors, your pets? Are you a family of one, a member of the family of humanity?

There are many ways to define the meaning of family; Oakland Photo Workshop’s final exhibition of 2022 is a photographic interpretation of family, by our family at the East Bay Photo Collective.

Exhibiting Artists

Alan Krakauer - Amanda R. Bensel - Bob Shonkoff - Chris Gibbons - DeAnna Tibbs - Douglas Stinson - Eric Weiss - Evan Kartheiser - Fairlight de Michele - Gene Dominique - Gina Gaiser - Guy Sussman - Hannah Rohret - J. M. Golding - Jackie Chou - Jessica Chen - Julianne Clark - Jyoti Liggin - Kendra Luck - Lucas Yan - Maria Budner - Matthew Krupoff - Najee Tobin - Ngân Vũ - Paige Le - Philip Krayna - Senny Mau - Susan Harding

Hypervisibility is a double edged sword for black people everywhere. Our being put on display has created opportunities where there were none given, yet it more often creates opportunities for our likeness and our culture to be exploited and appropriated by everyone else. When our image is controlled by others, it creates a zoo-like atmosphere where we feel violated, reduced, and disrespected. Only when black people are seen through the Black Gaze is the black body respected, the black mind revered, the black spirit nurtured. The East Bay Photo Collective invites you to bear witness to a celebration of black intimacy curated by black, photographed by black, and modeled by sovereign, divine, and legendarily blessed black beings.

Exhibiting Artists

Arieanne Evans - Chenayi Tavaziva - Christian Jalon - Diana Oliphant - Emily Erce - Isiah ThoughtPoet Veney - Rohan DaCosta

The night offers a different energy than the day. Most of us tend to dedicate our daytime hours to the labor it takes to sustain our lives and all of the miscellaneous chores that it takes to maintain order in our lives. Often, we look to the night hours for a sense of relief from this labor. It is for this reason that the night presents boundless opportunity for excitement, stimulation, partying, and debauchery. We gasp when we hear that a heinous crime was committed in "broad daylight". The night offers cover. The night is a cloak. The night is a mask. A person could assume a totally different personality by night. The night holds the potential for lawlessness, a recklessness, unfiltered human expression. Some might say that all of this is consistent with a youthful energy, an energy that throws caution to the wind, because consequences tend to arrive in the morning.

This exhibition, curated by Rohan DaCosta, features twenty two photographers from around the Bay Area, and their relationship with creatures of the night.

Exhibiting Artists

Jeremy Austin De Leon - Alex Wu - Calder Anderson - Daniel Danzig - Dean Snodgrass - Eugene Dominique - Edgardo Cervano-Soto - Geoff House - Hernando Conwi - Kaitlyn Zorilla - Matthew Krupoff - Philip Krayna - Rami Levinson - Rusty Weston - Sam Adams - Scott Bulleit - Sherry Karver - Stephanie Williamson - Susan Harding - Vishesh Singh - Vivien Qian - Kathy Walton

"How does it feel when a person you hold in high regard does not follow through on a promise made to you? What if that broken promise leads to your insult, your injury, your death, your broken heart? Would it make you question your relationship with this person? Would it force you to withdraw and redraw boundaries to preserve your precious energy, your sovereignty?

America has always billed itself as the premier destination for prosperity and happiness, a beacon of hope and equality for all, the land of milk and honey, a place where any dream could come true.

Many of us now understand that this promise often rings less true for America’s non-white citizens. We now know that our beloved country will again and again fail to protect us, will fail to uplift us, will fail to love us, will fail to celebrate us if it does not profit from that celebration.

The United States ironically undervalues community in favor of championing the ideal of the “self-made man”.

“Meet Me At Your Promise” examines how the most recent acts of violence against the Asian community have necessitated a process of addressing the trauma of this broken promise, of redrawing boundaries to preserve ones energy and dignity, of demanding more from one’s country, of finding solace in community, of celebrating the people who make us whole"

Exhibiting Artists

Zimo Zhao - Aidan Jung - Jun Yang - Shelley Wong - Kacy Jung - Giovanna Lomanto

Fashion impacts us all. It is more than just what we choose to wear. In essence, it is a daring expression of our egos and a creative introduction to our life stories. The East Bay Photo Collective presents a celebration of fashion and storytelling as seen through the eyes and told through the lens of an extraordinary selection of gifted photographers near and far. It is our great honor to share works borne out of richly diverse cultural and professional backgrounds, engaging these works in conversation with one another, examining how costumes tell us who we might become and perhaps who we really are. Please join us as we raise a toast and turn a critical eye to the world of fashion.

Exhibiting Artists

Chenayi Tavaziva - Katherine Pekala - Natalie Jane - Rohan DaCosta - Samantha Tyler Cooper - Svenja Blobel - Hannah Thornhill - Isiah ThoughPoet Veney - Katie Lovecraft - Macy Bryant - Zayira Ray - Mettro

Our long awaited members’ exhibition, FOOD WITH A TWIST! Featuring the work of East bay Photo Collective members, this exhibition explores our relationship with food - the comforts, challenges, and essential aspects of our daily interactions with the nourishment that sustains us.

We are so proud of the work on our walls, and are very excited to share it with you! The exhibition will be up through the end of February - perhaps longer. We hope to have a party to celebrate, as soon as it’s relatively safe to do so. Keep your eyes open - all will be welcome to attend.

Featuring

Malcom Wallace of East Bay Cycling

Rohan DaCosta of Chinatown Solidarity

We’re excited to host these two artists for the inaugural show opening our new gallery space Oakland Photo Workshop. Their work represents a perfect blend of personal vision and community expression that we’re striving for.

Rohan DaCosta’s images are taken from a march he organized in response to the murders of eight people of Asian descent in Atlanta, Georgia. “Gordon Parks once described his camera as a weapon, presumably against oppression. In my own humble way, using the skills that I possess, I wanted to show the Asian community that Black people see and acknowledge them today and we recognize the journey of their ancestors as well.” Rohan’s full statement, as well as images and poetry from the march, are on display at Oakland Photo Workshop.

Malcolm Wallace has been involved with the Bay Area bicycle scene for many years. "My background is in social work and community development, so I have a passion for connecting with people on an emotional level and building communities. My style is influenced by Hip Hop culture and my environment...I just try to put some of myself into every image and keep it raw while reflecting my people. "

EBPCO has teamed up with talented high school students from the Oakland School for the Arts Digital Media program to present The Future, an exhibition of photographs exploring the students' varied interpretations of this theme.

This show is a culmination of a series of student portfolio reviews in January and February during which EBPCO's Education Coordinator Brooks Fletcher guided the students through the stages of the discussing and refining their work. These efforts produced some seriously stunning and thought provoking work that we can't wait for you to see!

Exhibiting Artists

Avril Jensen - Cadence Patrick - Cole Kassirer - David Gallagher - Elizabeth Truong - Elyas Yaqubi - Emma Calimag-Sisson - Emrys Mayell - Joel Moody - Maddy Slater - Morgan Holman - Thomas Williamson - Violet Wojno - Will Jennings - William Truong

EBPCO is proud to be co-sponsor of Representation Rising, an outdoor exhibition of images by Bay Area photographers participating in the national movement against racism. Exhibiting artists are Amir Abdul Shakur, Gene Dominique, Ruth Morgan, Erik Mathy, Harvey Castro, and Ivy Chen.

Travel often reveals new viewpoints from which to experience and rethink our day-to-day lives. In a time when travel and vacation are far-off luxuries, how do we locate the unfamiliar around us and appreciate our immediate surroundings in novel ways?

How might aspects of our homes remind us of places to which we have traveled or induce daydreaming? In the words of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space,

...the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as daydreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us all the time.

In late April of 2020, the East Bay Photo Collective put out a call to ask how photographers are re-interpreting their spaces. We had a wonderful response, and it was a real delight select images for the show and the create a visual thread. The photographers also provided a short narrative for each image, describing their experience in reframing the familiar of their lives.