Happy World Camera Day. Apparently, that’s a thing.
An image from a series in progress called The Unnatural World was juried into an exciting new show called “(Un)Natural Cycles: Air, Water, Land,” Elizabeth Cheng Grist, the curator of the Center for Fine Art Photography’s exhibition, selected my image, The Road to Utopia, which aligns with the show’s exploration of the environment. The exhibition, which you can view online, will be live until January 15th. My new series will debut in 2023, and I’m previewing some of it on Instagram.
One of my urban portraits, Forethought, from the series Re-envisioning, received an Honorable Mention in NYC4PA’s 10th Anniversary exhibition juried by Elizabeth Avedon. The portrait of a masked woman was shot a year before the pandemic. It appears in an online component of a very engaging exhibition.
Two of my images were selected for the East Bay Photo Collective’s exhibition called “The Night is Young.” I had the pleasure of attending the show opening at the Oakland Photo Workshop, a terrific space in downtown Oakland, Ca. One of the images, called Intake, was shot at a San Francisco dispensary for a series called Night Work. The other, Take Out, is from my Cerrado series shot in the Mission two years ago in the darker days of the pandemic. The show will be live until the end of September.
See the next post for details about the recent solo exhibition of my Re-envisioning images in Rome.
One of the year’s highlights for me was the Bay Area Photo Collective’s New World exhibition, featuring four of my urban portraits (Re-envisioning) plus the wonderful work of my BAPC colleagues. I loved the gallery show at the Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco.
In November, the Santa Cruz Art League’s People and Places — Photography Reconnected exhibition featured Overnight from my Re-envisioning series of portraits. Thanks to the curator Joe Ramos and kudos to the art league on a terrific show in a wonderfully spacious gallery.
Finally, I received word in mid-December that my Re-envisioning series had received an Honorable Mention from the Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA). The work was cited in the professional category called Fine-Art Collage. Can’t wait to see what 2023 will bring.
Forethought, from my series Re-envisioning, features young adults at night in San Francisco. In the frame: Kisa Hues.