Keith is a filmmaker, musician, martial artist and dungeon master. His passion for storytelling runs deep and wide. Keith is the founder of One Tiny Problem and also serves as lead instructor. His feature length documentary, Beyond the Gap, will premiere in late 2024.

Ngân Vũ (she/her) is a Vietnamese-American visual artist, photographer and storyteller, exploring the depths of identity, culture, and vulnerability in her work. As a first-generation immigrant and daughter of the Vietnamese diaspora, she draws inspiration from her vibrant community and ancestral lineage. Ngân's creative practice harnesses the transformative power of personal storytelling to cultivate collective intergenerational healing within our shared narratives. Her work aims to evoke empathy and foster a heart-centered tenderness in human connection. Ngân was born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam, raised in Milpitas & San Jose, CA and currently lives in El Cerrito, CA with her husband and two cats. Alongside her passion for photography, she also enjoys ceramics, calligraphy and dance as other creative extensions to her mindfulness & embodiment practice.

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 individual portraits.

Jyoti Liggin is a baker, crafter, and photographer. She was born and raised in Oakland and received a BFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She uses film, digital photography, and alternative processes to discuss family, mental health, and identity. Her work has been exhibited at Panopticon Gallery in Boston, MA and in online exhibitions by the Darkside Collective and Too Tired Project.

My name is Jaya Bhat and I like to make photographs. My on and off love affair with photography first became serious a few years ago when I set about documenting the city of San Francisco for the benefit of my two children. I wanted them to have a visual record of the city that they have grown up in, a city which would no doubt change in so many ways by the time they were old enough to get nostalgic. I started with our neighborhood, documenting the stores, restaurants and other favorite places of the city that is our home. And of course very soon my horizons broadened to include everywhere I go. Always with camera in hand, and eyes wide open, documenting the world as I see it.

Philip Krayna is a documentary portrait photographer and graphic designer based in Oakland. He is the Chief Creative Officer at Modiv Design, and teaches design and typography at San Jose State University. In his free time, Philip is a vintage camera collector and film photography obsessive.

Najee Tobin is a freelance photographer born and raised in Vallejo, CA. He has received his Bachelor of Arts in Photography from Sacramento State University. His work centers around themes of family, mental health and the expression of it, and the joys and struggles of what it means to be human. He hopes that his work reminds viewers of their own humanity through his own feelings and observations. He is currently exploring these themes through large format film photography and studio work.

Brenna Hansen is a photographic visual artist currently based in Oakland, CA. Their work focuses on perception, misinformation, and the way information and experience is organized, using a combination of digital and analog photography processes to examine the spaces between perception and reality. Hansen studied Studio Art, Art Photography, and holds an Interdisciplinary BA in Art History & Philosophy. In 2019, they worked to establish the Eugene Darkroom Group community darkroom and currently serve as the Darkroom Manager for East Bay Photo Collective. They currently work as an educator in darkroom & alternative photography processes, book-making, and more.

Beatrice Thornton is an Oakland-based artist, archivist, and art and design historian working in black and white film photography. Since returning to her home state from New York in 2018, she has been building an art practice centered around sustainable analog photographic processes. Beatrice develops film and prints in her home darkroom, creating developer recipes using foraged plants, rainwater, and low toxicity household ingredients in place of traditional darkroom chemicals. Her evolving photographic style mainly depicts her local landscape, often through in-camera double exposures. In her work she aims to create dialogues between her imagery and the materials she chooses for developers.

Erik Mathy has been obsessed with photography since his Mom handed him her Pentax K1000 when he was 17. For the last 5 years his focus has been on shooting travelogues, documentary, portraits and fine art images with film. While he does own a digital camera or two, traditional methods are much more exciting to him from both an artistic and personal satisfaction standpoint. There is something about combining vision with hands on techniques and then being able to hold the end result up to the light that is incredibly satisfying.

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.

Jan Watten is an active analog fine art photographer and the founder of Gray Loft Gallery, an alternative art gallery showcasing emerging and established artists in the Jingletown neighborhood of Oakland, CA. She has a BFA in Photography and Certificate in Gallery Management from the California College of the Arts. Watten serves on the board of The Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.