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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]