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Category Archives: Featured work
Stories We Tell – Open Show at the 56th SF International Film Festival
Open Show is teaming up again with the illustrious San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF56) to co-present STORIES WE TELL, a documentary by actress and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sarah Polley. A vivacious force of nature, Polley’s mother died when her daughter was … Continue reading
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A conversation with Brandon Tauszik
Photograph by Brandon Tauszik Brandon Tauszik is a San Francisco based photographer originally from England. After learning the craft of photojournalism in Europe, and a stint at Invisible Children, a media based non-profit organization, he now assists Magnum photographer Jim … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Tauszik, Family Radio, Harold Camping, Judgment Day
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A conversation with Richard Koci Hernandez
Photograph by Richard Koci Hernandez
What does a year-long exposure look like?
Photograph by Michael Chrisman Toronto photographer Michael Chrisman pointed a pinhole camera at the Toronto skyline for a full 365 days, the equivalent of 31,536,000 seconds, and the resulting image, on photo-sensitive paper, was so overexposed that it did not … Continue reading
Cosplay in America
Photos by Ejen Chuang Open Show Los Angeles Co-producer Ejen Chuang has completed a great project called Cosplay in America. He writes: Cosplay is “a fan labor type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent … Continue reading
Egyptian revolt: a conversation with Myriam Abdelaziz
Photo by Myriam Abdelaziz Myriam Abdelaziz is a New York based freelance documentary photographer who graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2006 after leaving the corporate world to focus on photography. Her work has been published in The … Continue reading
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Tagged Cairo, Egypt, Myriam Abdelaziz, revolution
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Lakewood, LA: a conversation with Tom Johnson
Photo by Tom M. Johnson Tom M. Johnson is a Los Angeles based photographer whose subjects have included Miranda July, Frank Gehry, Michael Stipe and Tom Ford. This year, at Open Show LA, Tom presented his Lakewood series, which has … Continue reading
A conversation with Dan Herrera
Photos by Dan Herrera Dan Herrera is a fine art photographer studying for his MFA at San Francisco State University, and we began acquainted with his project “Estan de una Herencia Extrana” at Open Show Bay Area #16 last year. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Herrera, Estan de una Herencia Extrana
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Mark Indig
Photos by Mark Indig LA photographer Mark Indig presented a small portion of “Closed Sundays” last October at Open Show LA. I have a soft spot for storefronts, and this is the ultimate typological storefront project. Shot on Sunday mornings … Continue reading
A conversation with David Butow
Last month, Open Show teamed up with the Japan Society of Northern California to turn our 26th Bay Area event into a benefit for the survivors of tsunami and nuclear incident in Japan earlier this year. Photojournalist David Butow presented … Continue reading