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

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.