Photographers & Their Images: Brian Frank
Posted: November 28, 2023 Filed under: CCSF Course Spotlight, CCSF Photography Lecture Series | Tags: Brian Frank, CCSF Photography, ccsf photography department, documentary photography, Photojournalism Leave a comment
Brian Frank, social documentary photographer will present his work as part of the. Photographers and Their Images lecture series on Weds 11/29 in HC202 at the Ocean Campus. Directions: www.ccsf.edu.
Free and open to the public. The lecture will also be recorded and hosted at vimeo.com/ccsfphoto.
About the photographer: Born 1979, a San Francisco native, I have created social documentary projects across the Americas focusing on cultural identity, social inequality, violence, workers rights and the environment.
Most recently, I was awarded a grant by For Freedoms, in collaboration with National Geographic, to continue my work on faith and labor in the California central valley migrant worker community. I am also a Professor of Journalism and a Catchlight Global-Fellow. My work with Catchlight, The Pulitzer Center and The Marshall Project has focused on documenting mass incarceration’s effects on minority communities and visuals-based, education curriculum development and instruction in juvenile detention facilities and communities disproportionately affected by mass incarceration.
My 2-year project, Downstream, Death of the Colorado is held in the permanent collection at the United States Library of Congress and was recognized by POYi with the Global Vision Award. My project on the drug war and culture of violence in Mexico, La Guerra Mexicana, was awarded the Domestic News Picture Story of the year by the NPPA. My work has been recognized with numerous other awards from both national and international press organizations.
After completing the Journalism program at SFSU, I worked primarily for The Wall Street Journal from 2008 – 2014 and currently focus on long-term documentary magazine features in California, the American Southwest, and Mexico.
My work has appeared in National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, California Sunday Magazine, Harpers, The Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, Fortune, Mother Jones, Newsweek, TIME, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Wired, Politico, Virginia Quarterly Review, PDN, American Photo, The Fader, The New York Times, U.S.News & World Report, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
PHOT52 Public Lecture: Sant Khalsa Artist and Activist
Posted: September 30, 2019 Filed under: CCSF Photography Lecture Series | Tags: activism, art, artists, free public lecture, Lecture Series, photography, photography lecture series San Francisco, Public Lecture Series, San Francisco, Sant Khalsa Leave a commentPHOT52 Public Lecture from Artist and Activist Sant Khalsa
November 4, 2019 – 3:30pm
50 Frida Kahlo Way, San Francisco, CA
ROOM: MUB 388 – Multi Use Building
Sant Khalsa’s artworks derive from her impassioned inquiry into complex environmental and societal issues. Air quali-ty, water scarcity and climate change have been a focus of her installation and photographic work for nearly four decades. It is her intention that her artworks create a contemplative space where one can sense the subtle and profound connections between themselves, the natural world and our constructed landscapes.Typical to her art practice and process, works evolve through research and personal experiences. Khalsa’s art-works reflect her ideas on time and place, nature and culture, and self and society. The photograph is the visual artifact of her intimate relationship with place – her obser-vations, perceptions, and interpretations.
Sant Khalsa’s photo-based artworks are widely exhibited, published and collected by museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photog-raphy in Tucson, Nevada Museum of Art, and UCR California Museum of Photography. She is a recipient of many fellow-ships and grants including from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her new book Prana: Life with Trees (Griffith Moon, 2019) features photo-based works and installations that bring attention to our interdependent relationship with trees and forests. She is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino and resides in Joshua Tree, CA.
PH52 “Photographer and Their Images” – Lecture by Artist Adrian Burrell
Posted: April 3, 2019 Filed under: CCSF Course Spotlight, CCSF Photography Lecture Series | Tags: adrian burrell, ph52, photographers and their images Leave a commentPH52 “Photographer and Their Images” – Lecture by Artist Adrian Burrell
Wednesday, April 10, 6:10-9pm
CCSF Ocean Avenue Campus 50 Frida Kahlo Way, Room HC 202
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Adrian grew up in Oakland, CA and has a Bachelor’s degree in film from the San Francisco Art Institute. He is co-owner of Mother of Exiles Ltd., a film and video production company based in Berkeley, CA. He was recently accepted into Stanford’s MFA documentary program. Adrian was the producer and casting director on the dramatic feature “Licks” which premiered at SXSW in 2013 and was distributed internationally by Blue Sky Media.
As director and producer of the documentary series “Picture A Change,” Adrian led a team of young adult film makers to Mississippi and six countries around the globe to document the grassroots efforts of local organizers working to better their communities. Adrian received the John Collier award for his current body of work Mama’s Babies a multimedia project that explores the notions of kinship and the rolls of matriarchy in his multi generational Black family. Adrian’s photography reaches across six continents and twenty four countries. Currently he volunteers in the San Francisco Juvenile Hall teaching storytelling and film making to youth in detention.
PH52 “Photographer and Their Images” Spring 2019 Lecture by Artist Adrian Burrell
Posted: March 19, 2019 Filed under: CCSF Photography Lecture Series, Current Events & News | Tags: adrian burrell, adrian levi burrell, documentary, Lecture, ph52, photography, photography lecture series San Francisco, spring, video, visual arts Leave a commentWednesday April 10, 2019
6:10-9pm
CCSF Ocean Avenue Campus
50 Frida Kahlo Way, Room HC202
The public is invited and a donation to CCSF’s Photo Department to help support this series is appreciated. See a list of past lecturers here.
Adrian Levi Burrell is an avid storyteller from Oakland, California. He holds a BFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute, and co-founded Mother of Exiles, a video production company in Berkeley, CA. Adrian was the producer and casting director on the dramatic feature Licks (2013) that premiered at SXSW and was distributed internationally by Blue Sky Media. Adrian is the director of a documentary photo and video project titled Picture A Change, documenting people and communities around the world fighting for change.Adrian loves to tell stories through his passion for photography and filmmaking, and is always looking for the next story to tell.
PH52 Spring 2018 Lecture Series “Photographers and Their Images” Announced
Posted: January 30, 2018 Filed under: CCSF Course Spotlight, CCSF Photography Lecture Series | Tags: Lecture Series, photo 52 Leave a comment
The Spring 2018 line up for CCSFPHOTO‘s “PH52: Photographers and Their Images” featuring professional photographers who come to lecture and show their work at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) Monday nights 6-9pm throughout the year has been announced. Be sure to register for this one unit course to secure your seat. This series of lectures is available to be taken for one college credit and there are no pre-requisites. Register online now until March 4th without an add code – and note the lectures will be held in VISUAL ARTS ROOM 114. If you would like to repeat the course, you can do so as a co-enrolled continuing education student, show up to the first class and fill out a “co-enrollment form”. The fee is $105. The public is also invited but a donation to CCSF’s Photo Department to help support this series is appreciated. REGISTER HERE
PH52-501 “Photographers and Their Images”, (1) CRN 36304 (transfers CSU)
Watch streaming presentations from previous artists here.
3/5/18 – Todd Heisler, a staff photographer with the New York Times since 2006, shoots a little bit of everything – from presidential campaigns to weather in New York City. But he’s happiest working on the periphery of news stories looking for subjects away from the spotlight. Heisler studied art at Illinois State University but fell in love with photojournalism when he started working at the student newspaper. He started his career working for community newspapers in the Chicago suburbs and in 2001 joined the staff at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. In 2006, he received the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for a project that followed a Marine casualty assistance officer and the families of Marines killed in Iraq. The project received several other honors, including a World Press Photo Award. In 2010, he won a National News and Documentary Emmy for his contributions to One in 8 Million, a multimedia project that profiled 54 New Yorkers ever week for a year. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
3/12/18 – Steven Bollman makes black and white photos, usually shooting film, to record ordinary people in extraordinary moments. He is fascinated with how the drame of human life plays out in short lived moments. Bollman was born in New York City in 1961. He has photographed in Sicily, Cuba, Haiti, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, as well as around the United States. In January 2018, Bollman self-published his first photobook entitled Almost True on his imprint F8 Books. Almost True includes nine narratives in 81 photos from work spanning 34 years, covering many topics and from many places. www.f8books.com
3/19/18 – Norma I. Quintana is an American photographer and educator working in the tradition of social documentary. She photographs with film, primarily in black and white using available light. Quintana has studied under Mary Ellen Mark, Graciela Iturbide and Shelby Lee Adams and is a founding member of the Bay Area non-profit, PhotoAlliance. Quintana’s most recent project, Circus: A Traveling Life, was published by Damiani Editore, in Bologna, Italy. Quintana currently lives in Northern California with her family and their house was completely destroyed in the 2017 Napa Fire. As she sifts through the rubble of their home, she is documenting items that she recovers from the ashes for a new body of work entitled Forage from Fire.
NO CLASS 3/26
4/2/18 – Martin Klimek began his career 30 years ago as a newspaper photojournalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. During that time his week-long coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was was published worldwide including National Geographic Magazine. He is currently based in the Bay Area and works as a commercial, editorial and documentary photographer and director specializing in portraits and landscapes. He uses the camera as a tool to meet, communicate and share with people around the world. Klimek’s work is regularly chosen for the Communication Arts Photography Annual, the American Photography Annual and the APA Awards. He lives in the Bay Area.
4/9/18 – Born in Brazil, Jamil Hellu is a visual artist based in San Francisco and working primarily with photography, video, and installations. His work revolves around representations of identity, particularly engaged in exploring interpretations of queer sexuality. Hellu holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Art Practice from Stanford University and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and teaches photography in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. He has been awarded the Eureka Fellowship by the Fleishhacker Foundation, the Kala Art Institute Fellowship in Berkeley, the Graduate Fellowship Award at Headlands Center for the Arts, selected for the Artist-in-Residence Program at Recology San Francisco and granted a six-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
4/16/18 – Wesaam Al-Badry was born in 1984 in Nasiriyah, Iraq. In 1994, Al-Badry and his family were relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska after spending four-and-a-half years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia after fleeing the war in Iraq. As a young man growing up in middle America, Al-Badry felt the disconnect between his experiences in Iraq, in the refugee camps and his life in the United States. Al-Badry’s work focuses on capturing the dispossessed, the alienated and ultimately, human dignity. He has worked for global media outlets, including CNN and Al-Jazeera America. His photographs have been featured in the New York Times Lens Blog, Lenscratch, LensCulture, Huffington Post, California Sunday Magazine, Zoetrope and campaigns for the UNHCR, the ACLU, among others. He has been recognized as Photolucida Critical Mass’ Top 50 Photographers and received the John Collier Jr. Award for Still Photography. While his work focuses on photo reportage and documentary, Al-Badry also creates multimedia art that challenges and investigates social norms. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he is pursuing a BFA in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute.
PH52 Fall 2016 Lecture Series “Photographers and Their Images” Announced
Posted: August 14, 2016 Filed under: CCSF Photography Lecture Series | Tags: artists, Fall 2016, Lecture Series, ph52, photography Leave a comment
The Fall 2016 line up for “PH52: Photographers and Their Images” featuring professional photographers who come to lecture and show their work at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) Monday nights throughout the year has been announced. Be sure to register for this one unit course to secure your seat. This series of lectures is available to be taken for one college credit and there are no pre-requisites. Lectures this semester are free and open to the public as indicated as part of CCSF’s Concert and Lecture Series, otherwise all others require registration. Register online now or stop by the photography issue room (160) to pick up an add code week. If you would like to repeat the course, you can do so as a continuing education student, show up to the first class. The fee is $105. The public is also invited but a donation to CCSF’s Photo Department to help support this series is appreciated. REGISTER HERE
PH52-501 “Photographers and Their Images”, (1) CRN 71101 (transfers CSU)
Watch streaming presentations from previous artists here.
10/10 Bénédicte Lassalle: Bénédicte Lassalle was born in Provence, South of France in 1975 and lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. WEBSITE
In her work, she finds poetry in the surroundings and objects of ordinary, everyday life. She is inspired by traces of individuality, timelessness and composition. Her work, influenced by photographic journalism, aims to capture its subject’s sensations – to record rather than embellish. Bénédicte has won several awards, has been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. Her work has been published around the world in The Boston Globe, Leica World Magazine, Azart Photographie, L’Humanité, Libération, La Croix, Marie Claire, Télérama, EducPro, Notre Temps, Enfant Magazine, Mother & Baby, Jungle World, Wir Eltern, Eltern Family. She is represented at home by Gallery Kayafas in Boston and abroad by Agence Révélateur, Maison de Photographs (France) and Plain Picture (Germany). She is currently working on The Coming Out Project, which was recently shown at the Brush Gallery, curated by Jen Mergel, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA.
10/17 Oliver Padilla: Oliver Padilla is an artist from San Francisco and alumni of the CCSF Photo Department currently living in Tucson, Arizona. He received a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from California College of the Arts, and is currently a Master of Fine Art Candidate at the University of Arizona. Padilla has shown work both locally and internationally. His works are often displayed as artist books and printed photographs, however he also does installations, performances, and video art. Padilla has received various academic awards including the 2016 Medici Scholar Award. His Master of Fine Art thesis exhibition will be at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Spring 2017. WEBSITE
Padilla’s largest body of work is the Excelsior Archive, which he started in 2011. He has consistently photographed the main street in the Excelsior neighborhood, tracking the visual change the neighborhood has gone through. From the rise of the recession and into the economic surge the San Francisco Bay Area has experienced. The Excelsior Archive is meant to encapsulate and show the changes in storefronts, buildings, and people who inhabit the neighborhood.
10/24 David Pace: David Pace is a photographer, filmmaker and curator. He received his MFA from San Jose State University in 1991 and taught photography for more than twenty years throughout the Bay Area. Pace served as Resident Director of Santa Clara University’s study abroad program in West Africa from 2009 – 2013. He has been photographing in the small sub-Saharan country of Burkina Faso annually since 2007, documenting daily life in Bereba, a remote village without electricity or running water. Pace’s images of rural West Africa have been exhibited internationally and have been published in The New Yorker, The Financial Times of London, National Geographic, NPR’s The Picture Show, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, Verve, Feature Shoot, PDN, Wall Street International, Camera Magazine (Germany) and Lensculture. A monograph of his project Sur La Route was published by Blue Sky Books in the fall of 2014 and an exhibition catalog was published in 2016 by the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. He is represented by Wirtz Art (formerly the Stephen Wirtz Gallery). WEBSITE
10/31 EXTRA CREDIT no class. Watch and write about a past lecturer here.
11/7 Liz Steketee: Liz lives in the San Francisco with her husband and two children where she maintains her own art practice. Liz is a member of the photo faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute where she specializes in digital imaging, compositing, and the handmade book. In 2005, Liz completed her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. At SFAI, Liz received the prestigious John Collier Award of Excellence for her Masters thesis project. This project was based on the turbulent circumstances surrounding the birth of Liz’s first child, Emma. After completing her graduate studies, Liz dedicated her work fully to art practice and teaching. Liz’s personal work focuses the notions of photography and its role in family life, memory, and our sense of self. Her work ventures into the realms of mixed media, book arts, and photography, often combining these areas as one. WEBSITE
11/14 John Lee: John Lee is a photographer based in San Francisco. He works primarily as a food and portrait photographer, but his roots are in photojournalism. He was a staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune from 1996 to 2005 — covering presidential campaigns, the rise of China, civil unrest in Haiti, Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan and Indonesia, and the war in Iraq. Lee left the Chicago Tribune in 2005 to pursue culinary photography and portraiture in his hometown of San Francisco. Since then, he has photographed more than a dozen cookbooks. He approaches food photography from a gastronomic and cultural anthropologic perspective. WEBSITE
11/21 Judy Walgren: Judy Walgren is the Editorial Director for the visual storytelling start-up, ViewFind, where she manages a team of photo editors, writers and designers. From 2010 to 2015, Walgren was the Director of Photography at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she managed a staff of visual content producers, photo editors and pre-press imagers for print and digital platforms. She has also worked for the Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News and the Dallas Morning News. Walgren received a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with a team from the Morning New for their series dealing with violent human rights against women. She received her Masters in Fine Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in January 2016. Walgren lives in San Francisco. MORE INFO
Photo 52 – Spring 2016 Lecture Series
Posted: February 22, 2016 Filed under: CCSF Photography Lecture Series | Tags: 52, Lecture Series, photo 52, photographers and their images Leave a commentENROLL NOW!
Photo 52
Spring 2016 Lecture Series
Professional photographers present and discuss their work in technical and aesthetic terms, a unique opportunity for photography students to meet renowned photographers and discus topics in question and answer format.
PHOT 52 Photographers and Their Images (1 unit)
CRN: 36304
Class meets 6 Mondays: 3/7, 3/14, 3/21, 4/4, 4/11 and 4/18
Room: VART 115
Guest Lecturers
March 7: Carlos A. Gonzalez, News and sports photojournalist
March 14: Josh Edelson, Photojournalist and commercial photographer
March 21: Deanne Delbridge, Photographers’ agent and consultant
April 4: Kevin Twomey, Commercial photographer
April 11: Saul Bromberger & Sandra Hoover, Editorial and commercial photographers
April 18: Irene Imfeld, Fine art photographer
PH52 Fall 2015 Lecture Series “Photographers and Their Images” Starts Friday
Posted: September 27, 2015 Filed under: CCSF Photography Lecture Series | Tags: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, CCSF Photography, Flipside Studios, John Greenleigh, Kari Orvik, Photo Alliance, Public Lecture Series, San Francisco, Through a Lens Darkly, Tomiko Jones Leave a commentThe Fall 2015 line up for “PH52: Photographers and Their Images” featuring professional photographers who come to lecture and show their work at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) Friday nights throughout the Fall 2015 semester has been announced. Some past lectures may be viewed on CCSFs EATV public access station CH27 or webcasts here. Be sure to register for this one unit course to secure your seat. This series of lectures is available to be taken for one college credit and there are no pre-requisites. Lectures are free and open to the public. There’s still time to register online now or stop by the photography issue room (V160) to pick up an add code week one. REGISTER HERE
PH52-501 “Photographers and Their Images”, (1)
All lectures this semester are from 6:00pm-9:00pm
Instructor: Erika Gentry
Location: CCSF, Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Ave, San Francisco, CA Visual Arts Lecture Hall 114
Meeting times*: Fridays, 6:00 – 9:00 P.M as listed below
MAPS and Directions
*You may make up a missed lecture or get extra credit by attending an offsite lecture as listed below.
LECTURERS FOR Fall 2015 (subject to change) *You must attend one of the PHOTO ALLIANCE lectures for full credit in this course and can attend an additional one for EXTRA CREDIT or to replace an absence.
9/18 EXTRA CREDIT or REQUIRED: Chris McCaw | Rachel Phillips @ Photo Alliance
10/2 FIRST CLASS: Kari Orvik, Tintype Studios
Kari Orvik moved to the Bay Area from Alaska and became a photographer while working in affordable housing in San Francisco. She has set up public portrait studios in SRO’s, BART plazas, and on rooftops throughout San Francisco. Her work focuses on memory and change over time, which she explores through the historical photographic process of tintypes. From a darkroom made in the trunk of her car, she makes long-exposure tintypes of urban landscapes that document time passing in ever-changing San Francisco neighborhoods. Her work has been featured on the cover of San Francisco Magazine, in exhibitions at SF Camerawork, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Headlands Center for the Arts, where she was a graduate fellow. She received her MFA at UC Berkeley, and grants through the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Foundation. She currently operates her own tintype portrait studio in San Francisco – kariorviktintypestudio.com.
10/9 EXTRA CREDIT or REQUIRED: Patricia Lagarde | Luis Palacios Kaim @ Photo Alliance
10/16 SECOND CLASS: John Greenleigh with Flipside Studios
John Greenleigh has been a Bay Area based product photographer for over thirty years, nineteen of those specializing in 360° product demos. He is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and was a staff assistant to renowned color photographer Jay Maisel in New York. John opened John Greenleigh Studios (later Flipside Studios) in San Francisco in 1982, and soon began a 24 year run shooting for Apple. In 1996, Apple asked John to begin photographing every one of their products in 360 degrees using a new technology called Quicktime VR (QTVR). Since then, Flipside has gone on to produce 360° product demos for other leading companies including Nike, Specilaized Bikes, T-Mobile, Microsoft, and LG. In addition to John’s studio work, a personal documentary project became the book, “The Days of the Dead: Mexico’s Festival of Communion with the Departed” with text by Rosalind Beimler. It remained in print for 23 years and sold over 40,000 copies.
10/23 FOURTH CLASS: FILM SCREENING “Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People”
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost.
Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into the lives of black families, whose experiences and perspectives are often missing from the traditional historical canon. African Americans historically embraced the medium as a way to subvert popular stereotypes as far back as the Civil War era, with Frederick Douglass photographed in a suit and black soldiers posing proudly in their uniforms. These images show a much more complex and nuanced view of American culture and its founding ideals.
Inspired by the book Reflections in Black by photo historian Deborah Willis, the film features the works of esteemed photographic artists Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza, Hank Willis Thomas, Coco Fusco, Clarissa Sligh, James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, and many others.
10/30 THIRD CLASS: Tomiko Jones, Artist & Curator
Loose narratives unfold in sculptural video installations and questionably fictional photographs. Linked to the identity of place in social, cultural and geographical terms, her work explores transitions in the landscape with attention to public lands. Jones received her MFA in Photography with a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Arizona. Recent projects include Canal, a site-responsive three-channel environment for Scottsdale Public Art, and Rattlesnake Lake, a long-term photography project in the Cedar River watershed in Washington, and supported by an En Foco New Works Fellowship. Rattlesnake Lake will be on exhibition in San Francisco at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) September – November 2015. She is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Photography Program at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado and currently is a Visiting Artist and Curator-in-Residence at California Institute of Integral Studies.
11/6 EXTRA CREDIT or REQUIRED: Beth Moon | Amanda Marchand @ Photo Alliance
11/13 NO CLASS – SPE WEST Retreat
Buster Posey swings through on an at-bat at AT&T Park in San Francisco, on Monday, October 6, 2014, as the Giants played the Washington Nationals in Game 3 of the National League Division Series. The Nationals defeated the Giants 4-1.
11/20 LAST CLASS: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / San Francisco Chronicle
Carlos Avila Gonzalez joined The San Francisco Chronicle in 1997 and has become a leader in the photography department’s shift to multimedia reporting. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area and 1995 graduate of San Francisco State University, Gonzalez began his career near California’s Central Valley at newspapers covering diverse communities. Gonzalez has traveled to Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq Central America and Mexico numerous times for The Chronicle, and he is a volunteer teacher at a National Geographic Photo Camp For Kids.
PH52 Spring 2015 Lecture Series “Photographers and Their Images” Announced
Posted: December 16, 2014 Filed under: CCSF Photography Lecture Series | Tags: april, CCSF, images, Lecture Series, march, ph52, Photographers, Photography Department, photography lectures, San Francisco, Spring 2015 Leave a commentThe Spring 2015 line up for “PH52: Photographers and Their Images” featuring professional photographers who come to lecture and show their work at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) Monday nights throughout the Spring 2015 semester has been announced. Be sure to register for this one unit course to secure your seat. This series of lectures is available to be taken for one college credit and there are no pre-requisites. Lectures this semester are free and open to the public as indicated as part of CCSF’s Concert and Lecture Series, otherwise all others require registration. Register online now or stop by the photography issue room (160) to pick up an add code week. Unregistered students may not attend – if you would like to repeat the course, you can do so as a continuing education student, show up to the first class. The fee is $105. REGISTER HERE
PH52-501 “Photographers and Their Images”, (1) CRN 36304 (transfers CSU)
Instructor: Erika Gentry
Location: CCSF, Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Ave, San Francisco, CA Visual Arts Lecture Hall 115
Meeting times*: Six Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30 P.M: 3/9 3/16, 3/23, 4/6, 4/13, and 4/20
*You may make up a missed lecture or get extra credit by attending an offsite lecture as listed below.
You may also see a list of past lecturers here. For more information and to get an add code for the course contact Erika Gentry or stop by the Photography Lab Issue Room V160. Again – you MUST be registered to attend the lectures. If you’d like to REPEAT the course it is possible for $105 as a continuing ed student. Just ask Erika how.
SPEAKERS SPRING 2015
PROGRAM 1
3/9/2015 MICHAEL JANG: Michael Jang’s is a unique story. For the last forty years, he has earned a living as a portrait photographer, capturing iconic figures such as Jimi Hendrix, Ronald Reagan, and Robin Williams, among others. However, this unassuming Asian-American photographer has also been simultaneously infiltrating and documenting a number of groups and subcultures from all strata of society: from celebrity parties in Beverly Hills to the youth of Castro’s Cuba, from South City gangs to Old West rodeos, and from the punk rock scene of the late 70s to the teenage garage bands of early 2000s San Francisco. His images are allegories of particular points in time, characterized by their candid honesty, decisiveness, and vivacity. SFMoMA has recently acquired a number of his early prints and has exhibited them alongside contemporaries such as Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, and Lee Friedlander.
PROGRAM 2
3/16/2015 SAM WOLSON: Sam Wolson is a an award-winning freelance photographer and multimedia producer from Detroit, Michigan currently based out of Oakland, California. His work focuses on issues around public space and marginalized communities in the global south and across the United States. He has been published in Slate, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and is a regular contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. He loves magic tricks, and grew up on a flower farm. He has won awards and scholarships from PDN Photo Annual, AP Images, The Eddie Adams Workshop, The Look3 festival and recently attended The New York Times Portfolio review.
PROGRAM 3
3/23/15 ERIC CHENG: Eric Cheng is an award-winning photographer and publisher, and is the Director of Aerial Imaging at DJI, the makers of the popular Phantom aerial-imaging quadcopter. Throughout his career, Cheng has straddled his passion for photography, entrepreneurship, technology and communication. He publishes Wetpixel.com, the leading underwater-photography community on the web, and writes about his aerial-imaging pursuits at skypixel.org His work as a photographer has been featured at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum and in many media outlets including Wired, Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Make, Photography Week, ABC, CBS, CNN and others. His video work has been shown on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, and on virtually every news network around the world.
Caught between technical and creative pursuits, Eric holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Stanford University, where he also studied classical cello performance. He leads regular photography expeditions and workshops around the world, and has given seminars and lectures internationally at events including TEDx, the Churchill Club, Photoshelter Luminance, CES, SXSW, AsiaD, DEMA, and others.
4/6/2015 NIGEL POOR: For many years my work has explored the various ways people make a mark and leave behind evidence of their existence. I am interested in forms of portraiture and explore this vastly mined photographic area through unconventional means. I have used fingerprints and hands, objects people have thrown out, human hair, dirt, dryer lint and dead insects as indexical markers of human presence and experience. I am trying to explore the troubling question of how to document life and what is worthy of preservation. In 2011 my interest in investigating the marks people leave behind led me to San Quentin State Prison. My lecture will focus on several collaborative projects I am currently working on with a group of men at the prison.
Nigel Poor’s work has been shown at: San Jose Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Friends of Photography, SF Camerawork, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. Her work is in the collections of the SFMOMA, the M.H. deYoung Museum, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art. She received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and is a Professor at CSU Sacramento.
PROGRAM 5
4/13/2015 Nicolò SERTORIO: I grew up influenced by two different cultures: European and American. I also came from families with a long tradition of academia, arts and science. I was therefore brought up with an innate interest in analyzing and exploring, with a European sensibility but also in-between worlds, with different and at times conflicting world views. My artistic language is made of direct well-composed honest sentences, with a juxtaposition of objectiveness and beauty. Focusing on sense of place, identity, who we are both internally and externally; the resulting statements are a visual landscape for the viewer to enter, raising a question to be answered.Through attention on the perfection of the work (technique, composition, color, balance, light), the viewer is asked to focus on the essence of the subject matter. This certain subtleness to the work requires time with the images, listening and absorbing the whispered message. Nicolo is also president of the ASMP Northern California Chapter http://www.nicolosertorio.com
PROGRAM 6
4/20/2015 JESSICA INGRAM: Jessica Ingram (b. 1977 Nashville, TN) is based in Oakland, CA. She received degrees in photography and Political Science from NYU and her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts. She is Assistant Professor in Graduate Fine Arts and Undergraduate Photography at California College of the Arts, Jessica Ingram’s photography and video practice is motivated by her desire to understand how people relate, what they long for, and what motivates the choices they make. Her recent bodies of work include A Civil Rights Memorial, about histories from the Civil Rights era in the American South. Working with photography, audio, and text, the work explores little known histories, and interweaves quiet landscape photographs of largely un-memorialized sites of atrocities and written accounts of the historic events and related court cases, with audio recollections of loss, trauma, and transformation. Hilltop High, a multi-year project about young mothers attending an alternative high school for pregnant teenagers in San Francisco. Using photography and video, this work explores a dramatic moment of transformation in the lives of the young women at the school. She is currently working on Love Rich Land, revealing rich yet marginal areas in the American South. Within photographic works of portraits in golden light and landscapes of dripping moss and abandoned sites of industry, Ingram examines ideas of power, disappearance, and continuous reconstruction in the American South.
Jessica’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. Jessica was awarded the 2012 Santa Fe Prize. Her work has been published in the New York Times, GUP, OjodePez, and Etiqueta Negra. Jessica is a contributing editor to What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art (SUNY Press 2004). Jessica is a principal member of Cause Collective, along with artists Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev. Cause Collective has received multiple large scale public art commissions, most recently at the Birmingham International Airport in Alabama, and multiple commissions in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Oakland International Airport, Oakland Museum of California, and SF Camerawork. Along the Way, a video she completed with the Cause Collective was an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival.
PH52 Fall 2014 Lecture Series “Photographers and Their Images” Announced
Posted: June 12, 2014 Filed under: CCSF Course Spotlight, CCSF Photography Lecture Series | Tags: Alex Farnum, california, janet delaney, lectures, Photographers, photography, richard renaldi, rocky mccorkle, San Francisco, Sarah christianson, sue tallon 1 CommentThe Fall 2014 line up for “PH52: Photographers and Their Images” featuring professional photographers who come to lecture and show their work at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) Friday nights throughout the Fall 2014 semester has been announced. Be sure to register for this one unit course to secure your seat. This series of lectures is available to be taken for one college credit and there are no pre-requisites. Lectures this semester are free and open to the public as indicated as part of CCSF’s Concert and Lecture Series, otherwise all others require registration. Register online now or stop by the photography issue room (160) to pick up an add code week. Unregistered students may not attend – if you would like to repeat the course, you can do so as a continuing education student, show up to the first class. The fee is $105. REGISTER HERE
PH52-501 “Photographers and Their Images”, (1) CRN 71101 (transfers CSU)
Instructor: Erika Gentry
Location: CCSF, Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Ave, San Francisco, CA Visual Arts Lecture Hall 114
Meeting times*: Five Fridays, 6:00 – 9: 30 P.M: 10/3, 10/10, 10/24, 11/14 and 11/21
*You may make up a missed lecture or get extra credit by attending an offsite lecure as listed below.
You may also see a list of past lecturers here. For more information and to get an add code for the course contact Erika Gentry or stop by the Photography Lab Issue Room V160. Again – you MUST be registered to attend the lectures. If you’d like to REPEAT the course it is possible for $105 as a continuing ed student. Just ask Erika how.
October 3rd, FIRST MEETING and Program 1
Important orientation, course expectations and opportunity to “add the class” and “head count” needed.
Program #1. October 3 SUE TALLON
Sue Tallon likes to make things which opens her up to a myriad of subjects. Early influences in art and her own drawing, painting and love of composition eventually led to formal training in photography, a few years of assisting, and work as a photographer in L.A.’s art scene for the cities top museums and galleries. Relocating to San Francisco in the mid 90’s, Sue began her commercial career and now shoots product, food and still-life advertising nationally for agencies such as TBWA Chiat Day, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, BBDO, and JWT amongst others.
“The first time you see Sue Tallon’s food shots, you wonder if they’re real. They look like photos, yet their hyper color and their shine and shadows are so graphic, they pop. In a genre that traditionally favors natural beauty, the intense hues and high contrast of Tallon’s still lifes blur the line between photography and illustration and present a fresh approach to the look of food photography. “ I want objects and foods to have personalities,” Tallon said, describing how she pushes color, deepens darks and brightens brights to bring out her subject’s dimensional qualities. The style has a strong commercial appeal and has attracted high-profile clients, including bbdo, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Kraft Foods, Sonic Corp and tbwa\Chiat\Day.
Photography was an enduring part of Tallon’s childhood during the 1960s and 1970s. Her father was a hobbyist who often annexed the family bathroom for his darkroom. He traveled internationally selling shortwave radios and moved the family from Argentina, where Tallon was born, to Colombia, Montréal and finally Southern California in 1971 for her last few years of elementary school. As she grew, her childhood interest in drawing and painting transferred to the camera, because she liked its “combination of chemistry and light.”
The Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, offered a three-year program in the ’80s and Tallon enrolled after high school. She studied tabletop technique, photo illustration and especially how to use light. “I remember seeing my first print come up from a 4 × 5 negative,” she said. “Up until then, I had only shot 35mm. The leap in quality was a thrill.”- Ruth Hagopian
Program #2. October 10 ROCKY MCCORKLE (see the lecture online)
Rocky McCorkle is an internationally exhibited photographer who lives in San Francisco. McCorkle received his BFA in Photography from The Ohio State University and his MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.
He has shown extensively throughout the United States and abroad including Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Toronto, and Busan, Korea. In 2012, McCorkle’s You & Me On A Sunny Day was selected as the Analog Winner for EXPOSURE 2011 International Photography Award. McCorkle’s work from this series is in the permanent collection at the Berkeley Art Museum (BAM/PFA) and the Tweed Museum of Art.
A five-year project started in 2007, McCorkle’s sequential photographic series follows widow Millie (Gilda Todar) as her morning routine gets run off-course when her favorite film Sunset Boulevard comes on TV. The movie is especially sentimental because it came out in 1950, the year her late husband, Jack (William Barclift IV), won the Auckland Marathon. In this psychological thriller, Millie is forced by daydreams and nightmares to confront her past. As faint television sounds influence, dictate, and distort her recollections, Millie reminisces about her beloved Jack as a champion long distance runner. Their life replaying in reverse, we see glimpses of Jack before his death in 2004 and back to his moment in the sun in Auckland in 1950.
Program #3. October 24 JANET DELANEY
Delaney’s projects have received numerous awards, most notably three National Endowment for the Arts Grants. Her work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, the Pilara Foundation, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, the Musée de la Charleroi in Charleroi, Belgium, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Delaney has shown her photographs nationally in solo and group exhibitions. In 2011 she was invited to curate an exhibition of contemporary American photography in New Delhi, India. She recently published a book of her 1980’s San Francisco images titled South of Market with Mack Books of London and is now revisiting this district, camera in hand. From January to June of 2015 her early work from South of Market will be exhibited in full at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has taught photography throughout the Bay Area, and for the past 14 years she has been an adjunct lecturer in Visual Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Delaney is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the graduate program at San Francisco Art Institute.
XTRA Credit: November 7: Photo Alliance Lecture -Robin Schwartz & Wegman winners – SFAI 800 Chestnut Street – http://www.photoalliance.org – admission $10 or $5 with student ID.
Program #4. November 14 ALEX FARNUM (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC as part of the Concert and Lecture Series)
Alex Farnum was born in Los Angeles, California in 1979. From that moment in time he has not stopped seeking out all the curiousities that life has to offer. His work is a reflection of just that mantra. He is a lover of stories, places, food and friend and the dramatic nature of his work is a reflection of Alex’s huge love for the present day and the importance of capturing it. His sharp-edged charm and unique style has helped him land on-going projects for national publications, international agencies, multigenerational brands and award winning book projects. His core goal in life is not to live forever, but to create photography that will.
Program #5. November 21 SARAH CHRISTIANSON grew up on a four-generation family farm near Cummings, North Dakota. Immersed in that vast expanse of the Great Plains, she developed a strong affinity for its landscape and stories. This connection to place has had a profound effect on her work. Despite moving to San Francisco in 2009, she continues to document the subtleties and nuances of the Midwestern landscape and experience. She’ll share her work including from her most recent project “When the Landscape Is Quiet Again”.
Christianson holds an MFA in photography from the University of Minnesota. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in the collections of several institutions in the Midwest and the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has also received grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Center for Cultural Innovation. Christianson’s first book, Homeplace (Daylight Books, October 2013), documents the history and uncertain future of her family’s farm by interweaving her images with old snapshots and historical documents culled from her personal archive. Her current project, When the Landscape is Quiet Again, examines the oil boom currently underway in western North Dakota.
**Due to a change in course dates, Jessica Ingram has been asked to join us Spring semester 2015.
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