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

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

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.