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Michael wears a suit every day.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
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Stephanie works for a non-profit in San Francisco.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
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Mark is Resident Manager of the building.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
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Joe likes to work with plants and sells tie-dye fabric that he makes.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
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Annie has lived here for 18 years.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
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Mike is an independent filmmaker.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
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Gregory works at an interior design store.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
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Vonnie has lived in the building for 11 years.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
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Margarita is Igor’s wife, also a marathon runner and loves cats.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
Introductions/Introducciones – Victor Prieto
I introduce Victor Prieto
Victor Prieto on Flickr also 50 Golden Gate, Public Places, Spaces Between PlacesBy looking at your images it looks like you’re comfortable photographing people you don’t know. What is your approach?
I usually just approach people on the street, I don’t ask but I don’t do it secretly so they don’t think I’m doing something bad. Sometimes, depending on the person, and the situation, I ask. The thing is that a lot of people don’t mind, because it’s flattering to get your portrait taken.
You are also a painter, do the two mediums influence each other?
I haven’t painted in a while, but now I am doing illustrations, I don’t think that they influence each other in a direct way, but I go about it in the same way, It’s just intuition, I know what I like, and I try to get it out in different mediums but in the same way.
You are a founder of DUST Magazine, tell me about your collective?
DUST Magazine was founded by Irwin Lewis and me, and Amanda Smith, this is a DIY magazine that consists of black and white film photography, we mix up different genres of photography in a way that it makes sense to us. It’s about telling our own stories and combining them to tell a bigger story, it’s about our the tangibility of our experiences, and the uncertainty of life.
Why do you use film?
I use film because I still work like a painter, I need a hands on approach to my photography, and I love the process of doing it all myself, it’s a certain feeling of accomplishment that I get when I can say that I printed my photos on my own. I have full control and it’s slowly decreasing in usage among photographers. I like the idea of light hitting silver to create an image.
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Igor is a marathon runner from Russia.
50 Golden Gate is about meeting my neighbors, I wonder about the people that live around me. What are they like? Where do they come from? How long have they lived here? I have become a part of the building’s history, along with the long list of hundreds of previous tenants. I wanted to explore the history of the building I lived in by by meeting the people that inhabit it.
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
