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Documentarian, street photographer & exhibition curator + NEWS + Where Words Fail Us On view February 6 through July 19, 2026 Asian Resource Center, Oakland, CA ebpco.org/where-words-fail-us

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Waiting for the Light (to Change)
2019

Photo: ©Jessica Chen

Waiting for the Light (to Change) 2019 Photo: ©Jessica Chen

Photo @ Ngân Vũ

Photo @ Ngân Vũ

Photo © Laura Ming Wong

Photo © Laura Ming Wong

Where Words Fail Us exhibition poster 
On view February 6 through July 19, 2026
Asian Resource Center, Oakland CA

Photo © Laura Ming Wong

Where Words Fail Us exhibition poster On view February 6 through July 19, 2026 Asian Resource Center, Oakland CA Photo © Laura Ming Wong

Where Words Fail Us
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This exhibition, curated by Jessica Chen, explores the bonds within our family; these photographs depict the unspoken connections and the many ways we show love for each other without words. ebpco.org/where-words-fail-us
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Opens this Friday, February 6th 2026!
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#photography

02.02.2026 20:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Photography's Truth Is Under Attack and Giving Up Is Not an Option If we can't trust what cameras capture, what can we trust?

PETAPIXEL: Photography’s Truth Is Under Attack and Giving Up Is Not an Option petapixel.com/2026/01/29/p... @petapixel.bsky.social #journalism #photography #photojournalism

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Black-Owned Film Shop Photodom Gets a New Home in Bushwick The beloved store’s expanded ground-floor location marks a major milestone for Brooklyn’s analog photography community.

Inspiring.

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How I Built A $1.1 Million/Year Business In Brooklyn, NY
How I Built A $1.1 Million/Year Business In Brooklyn, NY YouTube video by CNBC Make It

Great coverage on Photodom, the one stop analog photography shop in Brooklyn.
#photography #filmphotography #analogfilm #believeinfilm

23.12.2025 07:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Photographic Retrospective Offers an Evocative, Fantastical Journey Through Mexico "Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play" gathers nearly 200 photographs, spanning five decades of the Mexican photographer’s career.

Reminder! Check out Graciela Iturbide's retrospective 'Serious Play' at ICP - International Center for Photography in New York City. On view until January 12, 2026! #photography #photographymasters #GracielaIturbide #womenphotographers #believeinfilm #filmphotography

22.12.2025 03:52 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New York Streets with Daniel Arnold
New York Streets with Daniel Arnold YouTube video by NOWNESS

8 Years ago.

02.12.2025 21:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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High and low: the spontaneous joy and drama of New York City – in pictures Street photographer Daniel Arnold searches out the candid human moments of NYC, capturing a complex city alive with characters and contradictions

Street Legend Daniel Arnold. @borntobenervous.bsky.social
#DanielArnold #streetphotography #photography #candid #filmphotography #believeinfilm

02.12.2025 21:43 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wow JP, extraordinary!

22.11.2025 01:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of GREY GARDENS — maysles documentary center IN MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY CENTER CINEMA Join us for GREY GARDENS’ 50th Anniversary Celebration Sunday, November 23 at 2PM, 4:30PM, and 7:30PM GREY GARDENS Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hov...

A cult classic! Grey Gardens fans and New Yorkers, don't miss this! Celebrating 50 years, a special day of screenings at the #MayslesDocumentaryCenter in Harlem, on Sunday, Nov 23rd!
#GreyGardens #documentaryfilms #AlbertandDavidMaysles

19.11.2025 23:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow. Thanks for sharing Andy.

30.10.2025 01:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@edkashi.bsky.social's book looks amazing. Snag a copy.
#photojournalism #photography #photobooks

16.10.2025 01:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pop-up Exhibition and Film Screening Arthur Tress, Selections  — Center for Photographic Art The Center for Photographic Art and the Monterey History and Art Association are excited to announce a weekend of collaborative events with photographer Arthur Tress in October! The MHAA will be ...

Last weekend Arthur screened his documentary along with a pop up exhibition at CPA down in Carmel.

14.10.2025 07:58 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) at Womens March. Outside City Hall, San Francisco, CA. Photo by Jessica Chen. All rights reserved.

MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) at Womens March. Outside City Hall, San Francisco, CA. Photo by Jessica Chen. All rights reserved.

In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day.
#MMIW #IndigenousPeoplesDay #photography #documentaryphotography #streetphotography

13.10.2025 23:50 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah shucks, sold out. Great photographs.

09.10.2025 04:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Serious Play, Graciela Iturbide's solo show in New York opens October 16, 2025 - Jan 12, 2026 at the International Center of Photography.

Serious Play, Graciela Iturbide's solo show in New York opens October 16, 2025 - Jan 12, 2026 at the International Center of Photography.

Serious Play, Graciela Iturbide's debut solo show in New York opens October 16, 2025 - Jan 12, 2026 at ICP. #photography #GracielaIturbide #womenphotographers #InternationalCenterofPhotography www.icp.org/exhibitions/...

17.09.2025 19:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What the Photoshop Panic Should Have Taught Us About AI In 2004, a doctored political image caused outrage and confusion. Twenty years later, why hasn’t visual literacy improved?

Visual literacy doesn't just help us avoid being “duped” by AI images, Morgan Barrie writes. There is value in thinking critically about the images we see, “with the knowledge that, just out of frame, something lingers that could change the entire narrative.” www.thenation.com/article/arch...

17.09.2025 18:26 👍 36 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
Chris Steele-Perkins, *Outside Divis Flats* 1978

Chris Steele-Perkins, *Outside Divis Flats* 1978

R.I.P Magnum Photographer Chris-Steele Perkins. #photography #streetphotography #ChrisSteele-Perkins
www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

09.09.2025 08:00 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Sense of Wonder Skira 2025 Hardback, 1st edition, 224p New Dedicated to one of the great figures of contemporary photography, this selection of over 90 images explores the most significant moments in the career of Jo...

New book.
#JoelMeyerowitz #photography #streetphotography #colorfilm #believeinfilm

08.09.2025 07:09 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography The ubiquity of camera phones today has very much made all the world a stage. In the modern city, photographers are now less concerned with surreptitiously capturing an image and much more likely to c...

“Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography”
Opens October 11, 2025 - July 13, 2026 at the MFA, Boston! #photography #streetphotography Street photographs from the 1970s through the ’90s by the likes of #GarryWinogrand, #HelenLevitt, #DawoudBey, #StephenShore, and #YolandaAndrade #believeinfilm

08.09.2025 07:05 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ed Templeton uses the skateboard deck as an anti-racist manifesto | Collater.al The new deck by Ed Templeton, the founder of Toy Machine, stages a fierce and truly unequivocal cartoon.

www.collater.al/en/ed-temple...

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📸 EBPCO Fest 2025! Sat, Sept 20, 5–8pm @ Shershow Studios, Oakland. *The* Bay Area photo hangout: art, food, drinks + a stellar raffle. Meet photographers, artists + photo lovers. Proceeds support EBPCO’s mission. Poster photo by Maryam Salassi + Taylor Blanchard. 🎟️ ebpco.org/ebpcofest

27.08.2025 03:14 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Why modern Street Photography feels repetitive and how to reclaim authenticity - Rohit Vohra Discover why modern street photography feels repetitive, how algorithms fuel sameness, and how to reclaim authenticity behind the lens.

Great assessment of the state of street photography today.
#photography #streetphotography #believeinflm

22.08.2025 05:17 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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EBPCOFest 2025! EBPCOFest is more than a party; it's a celebration of creativity and community! Join us on September 20th at Ellen Shershow Studios to celebrate the photographic community in the East Bay.   Secure yo...

Join us for EBPCOFest 2025! We, at the East Bay Photo Collective, @ebpco.bsky.social want to let you in on the best kept secret in the East Bay! Come see for yourself what all the hoopla is about! Tickets for EBPCOFest can be purchased here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... #photography #believeinfilm

11.08.2025 19:50 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Alex Webb and Melissa O’Shaughnessy in Conversation | Aperture Conversations Monday, September 8 | Join us for a conversation between two prolific New York City street photographers: Melissa O’Shaughnessy and Alex Webb.

In convo with two great street photographers, hosted by #ApertureBooks. Melissa O’Shaughnessy's book "Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs" is back in stock. Snap it up while you can. #Streetphotography #Photography #AlexWebb #MelissaOShaughnessy aperture.org/events/alex-...

08.08.2025 19:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Opening Night at San Francisco City Hall, opening remarks by curator Beth Davila Waldman from PhotoAlliance.

Opening Night at San Francisco City Hall, opening remarks by curator Beth Davila Waldman from PhotoAlliance.

Opening Night at San Francisco City Hall. North Light Court.

Exhibition details: sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/metaphors-recent-times

Opening Night at San Francisco City Hall. North Light Court. Exhibition details: sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/metaphors-recent-times

Opening Night at San Francisco City Hall. North Light Court.

Exhibition details: sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/metaphors-recent-times

Opening Night at San Francisco City Hall. North Light Court. Exhibition details: sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/metaphors-recent-times

Metaphors of Recent Times, San Francisco City Hall, Ground Floor

Under the American Flag, photo and essay by Jessica Chen

Exhibition details: sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/metaphors-recent-times

Metaphors of Recent Times, San Francisco City Hall, Ground Floor Under the American Flag, photo and essay by Jessica Chen Exhibition details: sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/metaphors-recent-times

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to see the Metaphors of Recent Times exhibition at San Francisco City Hall! On view January 16 through August 1, 2025. Many thanks to @sfac.bsky.social @photoalliance.bsky.social for bringing much needed dialogue to the forefront of our conversations and minds! #photography

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ONE WEEK left to visit Metaphors of Recent Times: A Dialogue of the Personal, the Political and the Cultural at San Francisco City Hall! Don’t miss your chance to see this powerful exhibit. Closes this Friday, August 1st at 5pm PT. www.sfartscommission.org/experience-a... #photography #PhotoAlliance

28.07.2025 07:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Multispectral Film Scanner Is a Breakthrough for Analog Photography One of few major photographic film scanning innovations of the 21st century.

Another Kodachrome article out today, about Film Rescue International, the lab in Alberta, Canada that processes old film, including Kodachrome (the latter in B&W). They built a hi-res scanner that they hope archivists will clamor for.
#believeinfilm #analogphotography
petapixel.com/2025/07/23/n...

24.07.2025 02:43 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Exciting news for film photography!

24.07.2025 06:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perfect.

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