Film, Photography, and Community
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
SF Camerawork
1011 Market Street, San Francisco, United States (map)
Please join us in the gallery on Thursday, November 21st for an artist panel with exhibiting SF Camerawork artist Kari Orvik, photographer Josh Smith, and East Bay Photo Center's co-executive director Vince Donovan. The evening will include presentations by all three photographers about their practice, followed by a moderated Q&A led by Ann Jastrab. Together, they will discuss analog photography and its relevance in a world increasingly defined by digital technology.
ABOUT KARI ORVIK:
Kari Orvik's project Geneva, which offers a glimpse into the Outer Mission neighborhood where her tintype studio is located, is currently on view at SF Camerawork. Kari Orvik is a San Francisco photographer who engages with her surroundings through film and the historic photographic process of wetplate collodion. A graduate of Stanford University with an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, her work has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California, the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles, and at the Headland Center for the Arts, where she held a graduate fellowship. She teaches photography at City College of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute, and operates her own tintype portrait studio in the outer Mission in San Francisco.
ABOUT VINCE DONOVAN and EAST BAY PHOTO COLLECTIVE
In 2017 Vince Donovan started the East Bay Photo Collective, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a public photography arts center in the San Francisco Bay Area. EBPC's mission is to provide facilities, education, inspiration, and community to East Bay photographers, including those who are under-served or lack access to a creative community. Vince Donovan has been exploring, experimenting with, and teaching traditional photographic media, techniques and processes for most of his life. In 2011 he co-founded, with Michael Shindler, Photobooth SF, the first West Coast tintype studio in over 100 years.
ABOUT JOSH SMITH
Originally from Springfield, Missouri, Josh Smith earned his M.F.A. in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, and has been living and working in the Bay Area since 2004. Smith has exhibited widely within the Bay Area and beyond, including Stanford University, SF Art Market, and Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR. Smith’s most recent body of work, The First Years, is an on-going investigation of the dynamics of his family and describes the moments of elation, fear and confusion that accompanied his experience as a father. A monograph showcasing this work was published by Dark Spring Press in 2019. Smith is currently a photography instructor at Eastside College Prep and resides in Pacifica, CA with his wife and three children.
