RayKo Photography Exhibition
Features the best images from the worst cameras:
RayKo’s 8th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 11th, 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: March 11th – May 3rd, 2015
RayKo’s 8th Annual Plastic Camera Show includes stunning and sometimes surprising images made by the crappy camera-toting winners of this competition. Photographers from all over the Bay Area as well as national and international artists are featured in this dynamic exhibit. Each year we receive thousands of entries and this year was another challenge to select only a fraction of these images. Why does the plastic camera continue to be so popular? Is it because the toy camera is a backlash to this digital age of photography? It could be nostalgia for the soft, square pictures with vignetted edges. It could just be nostalgia for film and the latent image- you actually have to wait to see what you shot! Or it could be love of the creak of the cheap plastic dial as you wind it, wondering if it will break off. (Forget Instagram and the rest of them, this is the real deal). It could be too that we all missed the simple freedom of making pictures that aren’t perfect, that don’t have to be sharp or real or saturated or taken with a camera that costs hundreds of dollars or more. All you need is $35 (or less) and a roll of film, and you’re in business. After seeing the exhibit, you may be inspired to start shooting one of these beauties yourself. Luckily RayKo is offering a class where you can reconnect with the simple joys of photography and have the ultimate plastic experience. Christine Zona will be teaching a 2-week class on Plastic Cameras starting March 22nd, in the midst of this exhibition.
Also highlighted in this year’s plastic camera exhibit is the work of Arizona-based artist, Ernie Button and New Orleans-based photographer, Jennifer Shaw. Two very different featured artists couldn’t be found in this plastic camera world. Ernie Button’s color images were made in China with a few exceptions of images taken in Scotland, Italy and the States. Many different destinations interest him but China fascinates Ernie, from the Monumental to the Mundane. It is massive; both in size of land mass and sheer number of people. China is changing rapidly. The rush to embrace capitalism as well as opening up its borders to tourism has impacted and dramatically changed the landscape of China. Ernie travels with a Holga camera for several reasons. That camera was developed and made in China during the early 1980’s to provide an inexpensive way for the citizens in China to have a camera and take pictures. The overall image of a Holga is a little fuzzy, kind of like the whirlwind events of travel creating memories that are a little more difficult to recall. Certain parts of a memory will be clear and others will be a little less so, kind of like the image from a Holga.
And then there are Jennifer Shaw’s exquisite silver gelatin prints from her series, “The Space Between.” She is photographing her life. It is as simple and complex as that. Presently, her life is overrun by exquisite little creatures known as children. As they explore the elements with carefree abandon, she observes with camera poised, balanced between protection and permission. Shaw works from a place of intuition, capturing the action as it unfolds, meanwhile stealing sidelong glances at the details of our environments. The images are juxtaposed to create an introspective narrative, mining the richly ambiguous state of parenthood, akin to the murky realm between a river’s glittering surface and its hidden undercurrents. Through the camera’s lens she is transported, traversing the space between shadow and light, dreams and reality, delight and disquiet.
Come see the power of Shaw’s and Button’s pictures and all the images of the winners of this year’s plastic camera competition and experience nostalgia on more than one level. You can fall in love with Holga and Diana* and a world of other lo-tech cameras, like my new favorite, the Bluebird. Film isn’t dead, so rejoice and come down to RayKo on the night of March 11th to experience the magic with the rest of us fans of the latent image.
*The Holga and the Diana are plastic medium format cameras that have limited controls, a fixed focal length lens, and, luckily for artists everywhere, each one is unique…
About RayKo
About RayKo
RayKo Photo Center & Gallery is a comprehensive photographic facility, located near the Yerba Buena Arts District, with resources for anyone with a passion for photography. Established in the early 1990’s, RayKo Photo Center has grown to become one of San Francisco’s most beloved photography darkroom spaces; it includes traditional b&w, color and alternative process labs as well as a state-of-the-art digital department, a professional rental studio, galleries, and the Photographer’s Marketplace – a retail space promoting the work of regional artists. RayKo also has San Francisco’s 1st Art*O*Mat vending machine and a vintage 1947 black & white Auto-Photo Booth and a retail store that sells all types of used film cameras, from view cameras to Leicas to a build-your-own Nikon station. Everything you need to make any type of photograph!
RayKo Gallery serves to advance public appreciation of photography and create opportunities for regional, national and international artists to create and present their work. RayKo Gallery offers 1600 square feet of exhibition space and the Photographer’s Marketplace, which encourages the collection of artwork by making it accessible to collectors of all levels. RayKo also has an artist-in-residence program to further support artists in the development of their photographic projects and ideas.
RayKo Photo Center & Gallery
428 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-495-3773 (ph)
https://www.raykophoto.com
Tuesday-Thursday: 10-10 pm, Friday-Sunday: 10-8 pm, Monday: closed
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Features the best images from the worst cameras:
RayKo’s 8th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 11th, 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: March 11th – May 3rd, 2015
RayKo’s 8th Annual Plastic Camera Show includes stunning and sometimes surprising images made by the crappy camera-toting winners of this competition. Photographers from all over the Bay Area as well as national and international artists are featured in this dynamic exhibit. Each year we receive thousands of entries and this year was another challenge to select only a fraction of these images. Why does the plastic camera continue to be so popular? Is it because the toy camera is a backlash to this digital age of photography? It could be nostalgia for the soft, square pictures with vignetted edges. It could just be nostalgia for film and the latent image- you actually have to wait to see what you shot! Or it could be love of the creak of the cheap plastic dial as you wind it, wondering if it will break off. (Forget Instagram and the rest of them, this is the real deal). It could be too that we all missed the simple freedom of making pictures that aren’t perfect, that don’t have to be sharp or real or saturated or taken with a camera that costs hundreds of dollars or more. All you need is $35 (or less) and a roll of film, and you’re in business. After seeing the exhibit, you may be inspired to start shooting one of these beauties yourself. Luckily RayKo is offering a class where you can reconnect with the simple joys of photography and have the ultimate plastic experience. Christine Zona will be teaching a 2-week class on Plastic Cameras starting March 22nd, in the midst of this exhibition.
Also highlighted in this year’s plastic camera exhibit is the work of Arizona-based artist, Ernie Button and New Orleans-based photographer, Jennifer Shaw. Two very different featured artists couldn’t be found in this plastic camera world. Ernie Button’s color images were made in China with a few exceptions of images taken in Scotland, Italy and the States. Many different destinations interest him but China fascinates Ernie, from the Monumental to the Mundane. It is massive; both in size of land mass and sheer number of people. China is changing rapidly. The rush to embrace capitalism as well as opening up its borders to tourism has impacted and dramatically changed the landscape of China. Ernie travels with a Holga camera for several reasons. That camera was developed and made in China during the early 1980’s to provide an inexpensive way for the citizens in China to have a camera and take pictures. The overall image of a Holga is a little fuzzy, kind of like the whirlwind events of travel creating memories that are a little more difficult to recall. Certain parts of a memory will be clear and others will be a little less so, kind of like the image from a Holga.
And then there are Jennifer Shaw’s exquisite silver gelatin prints from her series, “The Space Between.” She is photographing her life. It is as simple and complex as that. Presently, her life is overrun by exquisite little creatures known as children. As they explore the elements with carefree abandon, she observes with camera poised, balanced between protection and permission. Shaw works from a place of intuition, capturing the action as it unfolds, meanwhile stealing sidelong glances at the details of our environments. The images are juxtaposed to create an introspective narrative, mining the richly ambiguous state of parenthood, akin to the murky realm between a river’s glittering surface and its hidden undercurrents. Through the camera’s lens she is transported, traversing the space between shadow and light, dreams and reality, delight and disquiet.
Come see the power of Shaw’s and Button’s pictures and all the images of the winners of this year’s plastic camera competition and experience nostalgia on more than one level. You can fall in love with Holga and Diana* and a world of other lo-tech cameras, like my new favorite, the Bluebird. Film isn’t dead, so rejoice and come down to RayKo on the night of March 11th to experience the magic with the rest of us fans of the latent image.
*The Holga and the Diana are plastic medium format cameras that have limited controls, a fixed focal length lens, and, luckily for artists everywhere, each one is unique…
About RayKo
About RayKo
RayKo Photo Center & Gallery is a comprehensive photographic facility, located near the Yerba Buena Arts District, with resources for anyone with a passion for photography. Established in the early 1990’s, RayKo Photo Center has grown to become one of San Francisco’s most beloved photography darkroom spaces; it includes traditional b&w, color and alternative process labs as well as a state-of-the-art digital department, a professional rental studio, galleries, and the Photographer’s Marketplace – a retail space promoting the work of regional artists. RayKo also has San Francisco’s 1st Art*O*Mat vending machine and a vintage 1947 black & white Auto-Photo Booth and a retail store that sells all types of used film cameras, from view cameras to Leicas to a build-your-own Nikon station. Everything you need to make any type of photograph!
RayKo Gallery serves to advance public appreciation of photography and create opportunities for regional, national and international artists to create and present their work. RayKo Gallery offers 1600 square feet of exhibition space and the Photographer’s Marketplace, which encourages the collection of artwork by making it accessible to collectors of all levels. RayKo also has an artist-in-residence program to further support artists in the development of their photographic projects and ideas.
RayKo Photo Center & Gallery
428 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-495-3773 (ph)
https://www.raykophoto.com
Tuesday-Thursday: 10-10 pm, Friday-Sunday: 10-8 pm, Monday: closed
RayKo Photography Exhibition
Features the best images from the worst cameras:
RayKo’s 8th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 11th, 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: March 11th – May 3rd, 2015
RayKo’s 8th Annual Plastic Camera Show includes stunning and sometimes surprising images made by the crappy camera-toting winners of this competition. Photographers from all over the Bay Area as well as national and international artists are featured in this dynamic exhibit. Each year we receive thousands of entries and this year was another challenge to select only a fraction of these images. Why does the plastic camera continue to be so popular? Is it because the toy camera is a backlash to this digital age of photography? It could be nostalgia for the soft, square pictures with vignetted edges. It could just be nostalgia for film and the latent image- you actually have to wait to see what you shot! Or it could be love of the creak of the cheap plastic dial as you wind it, wondering if it will break off. (Forget Instagram and the rest of them, this is the real deal). It could be too that we all missed the simple freedom of making pictures that aren’t perfect, that don’t have to be sharp or real or saturated or taken with a camera that costs hundreds of dollars or more. All you need is $35 (or less) and a roll of film, and you’re in business. After seeing the exhibit, you may be inspired to start shooting one of these beauties yourself. Luckily RayKo is offering a class where you can reconnect with the simple joys of photography and have the ultimate plastic experience. Christine Zona will be teaching a 2-week class on Plastic Cameras starting March 22nd, in the midst of this exhibition.
Also highlighted in this year’s plastic camera exhibit is the work of Arizona-based artist, Ernie Button and New Orleans-based photographer, Jennifer Shaw. Two very different featured artists couldn’t be found in this plastic camera world. Ernie Button’s color images were made in China with a few exceptions of images taken in Scotland, Italy and the States. Many different destinations interest him but China fascinates Ernie, from the Monumental to the Mundane. It is massive; both in size of land mass and sheer number of people. China is changing rapidly. The rush to embrace capitalism as well as opening up its borders to tourism has impacted and dramatically changed the landscape of China. Ernie travels with a Holga camera for several reasons. That camera was developed and made in China during the early 1980’s to provide an inexpensive way for the citizens in China to have a camera and take pictures. The overall image of a Holga is a little fuzzy, kind of like the whirlwind events of travel creating memories that are a little more difficult to recall. Certain parts of a memory will be clear and others will be a little less so, kind of like the image from a Holga.
And then there are Jennifer Shaw’s exquisite silver gelatin prints from her series, “The Space Between.” She is photographing her life. It is as simple and complex as that. Presently, her life is overrun by exquisite little creatures known as children. As they explore the elements with carefree abandon, she observes with camera poised, balanced between protection and permission. Shaw works from a place of intuition, capturing the action as it unfolds, meanwhile stealing sidelong glances at the details of our environments. The images are juxtaposed to create an introspective narrative, mining the richly ambiguous state of parenthood, akin to the murky realm between a river’s glittering surface and its hidden undercurrents. Through the camera’s lens she is transported, traversing the space between shadow and light, dreams and reality, delight and disquiet.
Come see the power of Shaw’s and Button’s pictures and all the images of the winners of this year’s plastic camera competition and experience nostalgia on more than one level. You can fall in love with Holga and Diana* and a world of other lo-tech cameras, like my new favorite, the Bluebird. Film isn’t dead, so rejoice and come down to RayKo on the night of March 11th to experience the magic with the rest of us fans of the latent image.
*The Holga and the Diana are plastic medium format cameras that have limited controls, a fixed focal length lens, and, luckily for artists everywhere, each one is unique…
About RayKo
About RayKo
RayKo Photo Center & Gallery is a comprehensive photographic facility, located near the Yerba Buena Arts District, with resources for anyone with a passion for photography. Established in the early 1990’s, RayKo Photo Center has grown to become one of San Francisco’s most beloved photography darkroom spaces; it includes traditional b&w, color and alternative process labs as well as a state-of-the-art digital department, a professional rental studio, galleries, and the Photographer’s Marketplace – a retail space promoting the work of regional artists. RayKo also has San Francisco’s 1st Art*O*Mat vending machine and a vintage 1947 black & white Auto-Photo Booth and a retail store that sells all types of used film cameras, from view cameras to Leicas to a build-your-own Nikon station. Everything you need to make any type of photograph!
RayKo Gallery serves to advance public appreciation of photography and create opportunities for regional, national and international artists to create and present their work. RayKo Gallery offers 1600 square feet of exhibition space and the Photographer’s Marketplace, which encourages the collection of artwork by making it accessible to collectors of all levels. RayKo also has an artist-in-residence program to further support artists in the development of their photographic projects and ideas.
RayKo Photo Center & Gallery
428 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-495-3773 (ph)
https://www.raykophoto.com
Tuesday-Thursday: 10-10 pm, Friday-Sunday: 10-8 pm, Monday: closed
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Features the best images from the worst cameras:
RayKo’s 8th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 11th, 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: March 11th – May 3rd, 2015
RayKo’s 8th Annual Plastic Camera Show includes stunning and sometimes surprising images made by the crappy camera-toting winners of this competition. Photographers from all over the Bay Area as well as national and international artists are featured in this dynamic exhibit. Each year we receive thousands of entries and this year was another challenge to select only a fraction of these images. Why does the plastic camera continue to be so popular? Is it because the toy camera is a backlash to this digital age of photography? It could be nostalgia for the soft, square pictures with vignetted edges. It could just be nostalgia for film and the latent image- you actually have to wait to see what you shot! Or it could be love of the creak of the cheap plastic dial as you wind it, wondering if it will break off. (Forget Instagram and the rest of them, this is the real deal). It could be too that we all missed the simple freedom of making pictures that aren’t perfect, that don’t have to be sharp or real or saturated or taken with a camera that costs hundreds of dollars or more. All you need is $35 (or less) and a roll of film, and you’re in business. After seeing the exhibit, you may be inspired to start shooting one of these beauties yourself. Luckily RayKo is offering a class where you can reconnect with the simple joys of photography and have the ultimate plastic experience. Christine Zona will be teaching a 2-week class on Plastic Cameras starting March 22nd, in the midst of this exhibition.
Also highlighted in this year’s plastic camera exhibit is the work of Arizona-based artist, Ernie Button and New Orleans-based photographer, Jennifer Shaw. Two very different featured artists couldn’t be found in this plastic camera world. Ernie Button’s color images were made in China with a few exceptions of images taken in Scotland, Italy and the States. Many different destinations interest him but China fascinates Ernie, from the Monumental to the Mundane. It is massive; both in size of land mass and sheer number of people. China is changing rapidly. The rush to embrace capitalism as well as opening up its borders to tourism has impacted and dramatically changed the landscape of China. Ernie travels with a Holga camera for several reasons. That camera was developed and made in China during the early 1980’s to provide an inexpensive way for the citizens in China to have a camera and take pictures. The overall image of a Holga is a little fuzzy, kind of like the whirlwind events of travel creating memories that are a little more difficult to recall. Certain parts of a memory will be clear and others will be a little less so, kind of like the image from a Holga.
And then there are Jennifer Shaw’s exquisite silver gelatin prints from her series, “The Space Between.” She is photographing her life. It is as simple and complex as that. Presently, her life is overrun by exquisite little creatures known as children. As they explore the elements with carefree abandon, she observes with camera poised, balanced between protection and permission. Shaw works from a place of intuition, capturing the action as it unfolds, meanwhile stealing sidelong glances at the details of our environments. The images are juxtaposed to create an introspective narrative, mining the richly ambiguous state of parenthood, akin to the murky realm between a river’s glittering surface and its hidden undercurrents. Through the camera’s lens she is transported, traversing the space between shadow and light, dreams and reality, delight and disquiet.
Come see the power of Shaw’s and Button’s pictures and all the images of the winners of this year’s plastic camera competition and experience nostalgia on more than one level. You can fall in love with Holga and Diana* and a world of other lo-tech cameras, like my new favorite, the Bluebird. Film isn’t dead, so rejoice and come down to RayKo on the night of March 11th to experience the magic with the rest of us fans of the latent image.
*The Holga and the Diana are plastic medium format cameras that have limited controls, a fixed focal length lens, and, luckily for artists everywhere, each one is unique…
About RayKo
About RayKo
RayKo Photo Center & Gallery is a comprehensive photographic facility, located near the Yerba Buena Arts District, with resources for anyone with a passion for photography. Established in the early 1990’s, RayKo Photo Center has grown to become one of San Francisco’s most beloved photography darkroom spaces; it includes traditional b&w, color and alternative process labs as well as a state-of-the-art digital department, a professional rental studio, galleries, and the Photographer’s Marketplace – a retail space promoting the work of regional artists. RayKo also has San Francisco’s 1st Art*O*Mat vending machine and a vintage 1947 black & white Auto-Photo Booth and a retail store that sells all types of used film cameras, from view cameras to Leicas to a build-your-own Nikon station. Everything you need to make any type of photograph!
RayKo Gallery serves to advance public appreciation of photography and create opportunities for regional, national and international artists to create and present their work. RayKo Gallery offers 1600 square feet of exhibition space and the Photographer’s Marketplace, which encourages the collection of artwork by making it accessible to collectors of all levels. RayKo also has an artist-in-residence program to further support artists in the development of their photographic projects and ideas.
RayKo Photo Center & Gallery
428 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-495-3773 (ph)
https://www.raykophoto.com
Tuesday-Thursday: 10-10 pm, Friday-Sunday: 10-8 pm, Monday: closed
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