Holiday Gifting Ideas (of the non-commercial type!)
Ahhh! Can’t believe how quickly the holidays have crept up on us? I feel like we were just celebrating the Giants’ World Series win and suddenly we’re hearing holiday music everywhere. Black Friday! Small Business Saturday! Cyber Monday! Giving Tuesday – it’s all a bit much eh? Although most of America’s business entities want you [...]
Back to School, First Exposures returns!
Another school year has kicked off and that means that another year of First Exposures has kicked off as well. As a long-time mentor in the program, we’ve seen it grow over the years and this year has a ton of new faces. It’s great to see this program growing and after our second class [...]
First Exposures kills it!
Last Thursday was the benefit auction for the First Exposures mentoring program at SF Camerawork and the fundraiser raised over $60,000 – the biggest fundraiser to date! We had a packed house at the gallery and there was a lot of great work up. Alan Bamberger made an appearance as did a ton of others [...]
Support First Exposures – next benefit show April 26, 2012
First Exposures: Empowering Youth Through PhotographyFirst Exposures provides free weekly photography classes for San Francisco’s underserved youth. Each student is matched with a working photographer who serves as a positive adult role model and provides individualized guidance and support. In this mentorship program, more than 90% of students have gone on to pursue a [...]
Behind the Scenes: Help Portrait 2011
Great work & thank you to everyone who came out to Bayview Opera House for Help Portrait 2011 on December 10th! We joined SF Camerawork’s First Exposures students, along with Pro Camera, Gassers, RayKo and over 100 volunteers to help support the annual worldwide event, which aims to “give, not take portraits,” offering our local communities an opportunity to look their best for [...]
Help Portrait – December 10th
On December 10th, we’ll be taking part in the worldwide event, Help Portrait. Help Portrait, founded by celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart, is a global movement of photographers – from diverse cities as Clarksburg, West Virginia, to Milan, Italy – volunteering their time, camera gear, and expertise during the holiday season to give a person or families [...]
First Exposures: Looking Forward, Giving Back
First Exposures 2011 benefit photobooth time lapse from Orange Photography on Vimeo. This is a time lapse video from our photo booth at the First Exposures: Looking Forward, Giving Back event that took place last Thursday April 28th. This was First Exposure’s second annual Looking Forward, Giving Back benefit event and the evening was filled [...]
Successful First Exposures photobooth and auction!
The First Exposures program is one we’ve supported for quite some time. I remember first thinking about doing a similar idea through Orange but then found out that it was already being done well, and now I’ve been mentoring with that program for a few years. Last month there was an auction which we had [...]
First Exposures at Orange Photography Studio!
We were delighted to host the First Exposures program as the last real big ‘event’ at our old studio space at 1261 Howard in SOMA. It was a lot of fun and I think the kids got a kick out of it. It’s amazing all the different looks you can get in that one spot, [...]
First Exposures Zine Release party!
Well this semester of mentoring is wrapping up and the final event will be the zine release party at Adobe Books on Friday June 5, 2009. I’ve had a great time working with the kids in the program and some of the zines are really neat. The digital class did theirs using digital images and [...]
Ghana Youth and First Exposures art opening at SF Camerawork
Last night I checked out the opening for”United in Nima: Bay Area and Ghanaian Youth Share Lives Through the Lens” at SF Camerawork. I do some mentoring in First Exposures so this opening had a personal connection and it was amazing to see the work the mentees did while in Ghana. The show is up [...]
First Exposures Opening Reception
This past semester of mentoring has been really enjoyable for me as part of the First Exposures program. The culmination of the program this period is a show titled “You Must be Mistaken” – here’s the details on the opening: As many of you know it’s been a busy year for us and it wouldn’t [...]