Black Boots Ink at the San Francisco Exposure Gallery
We don’t have the words to express our gratitude for all your support.
It was great to see friends, family and new faces at the exhibition. Thank you San Francisco Exposure Gallery, Karna Kurata, Ariel Zambelich for the opportunity. Thank you all for making it through the rain to join us.
Thank you Jose Loera for documenting the Exhibition
http://loeraphotography.blogspot.com/
Participants: Nancy Ahn, Jennifer Ahn, Emilio Banuelos, Elena Carrasco, Alexcia DeVasquez, Sebastian Gladstone, Aimee Guymon, Ibarionex Perello, Victor Prieto, Unnikrishnan Raveendranathan, Theo Slavin thank you for making this an amazing exhibition.
If you missed the reception/artist talk you can visit the gallery Feb 4-March 27, 2010
The Exposure gallery is the site of a monthly “PhotoNight”, usually held on the second Thursday of every month. PhotoNights are sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association. PhotoNight founder Jessica Lifland (jblif@sbcglobal.net) has produced more than 40 events at Exposure Gallery with guest speakers ranging from rock photography legend Jim Marshall to Pulitzer Prize and Robert Capa Award winner Carolyn Cole to Photoshop guru Russell Brown and Bay Area documentary photographer Michelle Vignes.
The Exposure Gallery is located at: 
801 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA
They are always looking for creative and energized individuals to help manage the gallery.
For more information, please contact Co-Directors Karna Kurata and Ariel Zambelich at:
info [at] exposuregallery
We are finishing up the details and getting ready for a three day road trip to Mexico, where we will be closing the Wandering in the Company of Strangers project.
Public Places
images by:
Jennifer Ahn , San Jose | Nancy Ahn, San Jose| Emilio Bañuelos, San Francisco | Elena Carrasco, San Francisco | Tim Gonzalez-Mena, Oakland | Francisco Graciano, San Jose | Kija Lucas, Oakland | Vu Nguyen, San Jose | Colt Peterson, Alamo | Victor Prieto, San Francisco | Diana Sánchez, Oakland
Keeping IT Out
Why we should do away with all public places
by Greg Benchwick
I’ve really begun to hate everything public: Public busses with their surly drivers and sticky customers, candied seats and bubble-gum rails; libraries made for lounging street lizards and hypocritical intellectual hoods; parks with their goddamned fucking trees – so tall, so arrogant – the fucking sidewalks and public spaces with their skateboarding punks and gruesomely green grass. And of course there’s always the itinerant and frightfully exuberant youth in revolt that seems to grow out there like a germ. You must have to be young (or degenerate) to spend so much time out there with IT lurking around every corner.
Workshop 2: Mt. Shasta

Workshop No. Two: Mt. Shasta
BBI & NRCPA | Workshop The Visual Narrative and Landscape as Portrait
Instructors: Emilio Bañuelos | Elena Carrasco | Tim Gonzalez-Mena | Kija Lucas | Rika Noda | John Rickard
April 18- 20, 2008
WORKSHOP NO. TWO: MT. SHASTA PARTICIPANTS:
Chi Kwong Chow, San Francisco | Alexcia DeVásquez, San Francisco | Rami Hyun, San Francisco | Michele Kagele, Pleasanton | Meghan McKay, Saratoga | Afton Moman, Lafayette | Cristina Martinez-Canton, Davis | Craig Neilson, Mt. Shasta | Victor Prieto, San Francisco | Theo Slavin, San Francisco | Colleen Virgilio, Oak Run
In collaboration with the Noda Rickard Center for Photographic Arts and Earth Day as inspiration, Workshop No. Two is designed to help students maximize their understanding of the landscape as a portrait of the place. We will also discuss the visual narrative, editing and presenting your work to galleries.
The resulting images were published in Issue No. Four and exhibited at the Rostel Gallery, in Dunsmuir, CA.
more:
IAC 2008 | Landscape as Portrait: Mt. Shasta | Workshop Mexico 2007
Workshop Mexico 2007
Black Boots Ink | Workshop Mexico
June 17-23, 2007
Instructor/Photographer: Emilio Bañuelos
WORKSHOP MEXICO 2007 PARTICIPANTS
Isrohan Alvarez, Zapopan | Elena Carrasco, San Francisco | Ivan Cruz, Guadalajara | Alexcia DeVásquez, San Francisco | Gustavo Espino, Zapopan | Eric Fullmer, San Francisco | Perla Gomez, Guadalajara | Lydia Gonzales, Bakersfield | Tim Gonzalez-Mena, Oakland | Kelly Koehler, San Francisco | Kija Lucas, San Francisco | Foppé Mallory, Pinole | Cristina Martinez-Canton, San Jose | Cecilia Monroy, Chiapas | Colt Peterson, Alamo | Genaro Ramírez, Zapopan | Jorge Roa, Zapopan | Jorge Romero, Guadalajara | Diana Sánchez, Oakland
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Black Boots Ink is about the curiosity that makes you walk into a new situation. It is about wandering in the company of strangers, about stopping, walking, working, protesting, progressing–it is about all of us.

The first Black Boots Ink Workshop takes place in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, with photographer Emilio Bañuelos. The seven-day workshop culminates with a public exhibition of the final images and a selection of the images will be considered for publication in blackbootsink.com.
Workshop Mexico, participants will have the opportunity to make images that show relationships between people and their environment.You will learn to photograph people and landscapes while creating a visual narrative. Workshop sessions are designed for practical use with instruction for daily shooting, personalized working critiques and editing.
Morning workshops will be held at Instituto Cultural Cabañas a cultural center designed by Manuel Tolsá in 1810. The Instituto’s106 rooms and 23 flower-filled patios house art exhibitions and the main chapel displays 57 murals by José Clemente Orozco from1938-39, including The Man of Fire.

Afternoons will be set aside for daily trips to visit Guadalajara’s neighboring towns. We will travel by bus to visit the Basilica de Zapopan, which dates back to 1730, the Zona Rosa, and the village of Tapalpa, Jalisco, where you will have time to make photographs and learn about contemporary Mexico.
more:
IAC 2008 | Landscape as Portrait: Mt. Shasta | Workshop Mexico 2007
Issue No. One
images by:
Jennifer Ahn , San Jose | Nancy Ahn, San Jose | Emilio Bañuelos, San Francisco | Juan Carlos, Mexico City | Elena Carrasco, San Francisco | Jeff Christopher
Publications about women are often published with the intention of defining them. Black Boots Ink is taking a different approach. Each photograph is an individual statement about women and as an essay the images undertake a discussion with the viewer using photographs to create dialogue.
We invite you to share your knowledge, please leave a comment.
What makes a woman, motherhood, beauty, strength…?
Your words are a part of this work.
more:
Love Politics | Spaces Between Places | Public Places | Mexico | Issue No. One | Mexico 2008







