Beginning Black and White Film Photo Class at Darkroom
We gotta let Kodak know that over here in San Jose, we’re keeping film alive, and we know they’ll come back bigger and stronger. So in their honor, we’re kickin off March with our first Black and White Film Photo Class at Darkroom! Sign up cuz spaces are limited!
Valley of Shadows and Dreams
Now Showing
VALLEY OF SHADOWS & DREAMS
A Heyday book
Photography by Ken Light
Text by Melanie Light
Forward by Thomas Steinbeck
January 17-May 15,2012
(save the date)
Reception & Book Signing
Friday, March 16th
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“Valley of Shadows and Dreams explores a different California from the one that most people know—
a California far from Hollywood and Malibu and San Francisco, a California that in some elemental respects
has not changed much since the days of the Spanish conquistadors. The same sort of manual labor prevails in the fields,
the same exploitation of the weakest and poorest still blights the land. In this book you will find a powerful indictment
not only of what has happened lately in America’s largest state, but also of what is happening across this country right now.
The abuse of illegal immigrants, environmental degradation, the madness of a real estate bubble, and all the other problems
of the Central Valley are unfortunately relevant nationwide. Ken and Melanie Light bring great compassion and an eye for
beauty to this subject, facing hard truths but refusing to despair. As John Steinbeck argued more than seventy years ago,
the demand for justice and the need for true democracy are timeless, essential things.”
—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Center for Photography
Corner of Hearst & Euclid, Berkeley
Reception 6:00-7:00 P.M.
Talk by the Authors & Special Guest 7:00-9:00 P.M.
Free & open to the public
Directions <http://journalism.berkeley.edu/misc/directions/>
New Glassclops — So International….
Check out the new issue of Glassclops featuring super stunning photography by San Jose native son Abraham Menor, Stephen Brown, Aaron Cho, Paul Glover, Vladimir Tikay, and Kasha Guilfoyle-Jackson.
New Show: This Camera Fights Fascism
The title alone should get you to go!
This Camera Fights Fascism:
The Photographs of David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez
de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
July 29 – December 4, 2011 and January 14 – February 5, 2012
Tuesday – Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Opening Thursday, September 22nd, 6PM
David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez have both followed in the tradition of Depression-era photographers such as Dorothea Lange, focusing their cameras on struggle, dissent, immigrants, and workers. Their photographs speak to the global character of contemporary migration. Like the so-called Okies of the Depression, many of today’s migrants have been displaced by environmental degradation and wider economic forces.
The title of this exhibition refers to a sign that 1930s folk musician Woody Guthrie often had on his guitar, “This Machine Kills Fascists.” These two photographers build a powerful body of visual evidence of the continuing struggle of workers, migrants, and poor people to survive. In this exhibition the photographers responded to images by Dorothea Lange and selected photographs from their own work that draw close connections between the 1930s and today.
David Bacon is a photojournalist who has documented the movements of farm workers, social protest from Iraq and Mexico to the U.S., and the migration of people. He is the author of several books, and many of the images in this show are from Communities Without Borders, Images and Words from the World of Migration.
Francisco Dominguez is a photographer and printmaker. His parents both were farm workers. He documents the struggles of indigenous, immigrant, and poor people in black and white photography.
- Art Hazelwood, Guest Curator
To view the slide show please go to:
http://www.scu.edu/desaisset/exhibitions/Camera-Slide.cfm
Love to Virginia’s Paul Glover
What — a photographer who shoots almost exclusively in film!! Yes!! 3,000 miles can separate us but we are showing love to Paul Glover who is based in Salem, Virginia.
Check out his site at www.paulglover.net and his flickr below…
Beginning Black and White Photography Class!
Sign up now before the class fills up! You can sign up by emailing us at thedarkroomatdebug@gmail.com or filling the form out below:
It’s Here! Like it, love it, pass it on. GlassClops
Brought to you by De-Bug, Glassclops is set out to capture the medium that we love. As photographers, we realized that with the great downsizing of film products, we are at risk of losing a great art form. We do this magazine as a response to this pattern, and out of love. Our goal is to keep film alive, we feel the only way that we can do this is by partnering up with other photographers, photo magazines, blogs or anyone interested in film photography. In this we hope that we can promote Glassclops on your website, blog or something as simple as through your social network (Facebook,Twitter ect.). Also, please contact us if you would like to honor us with film images for an upcoming issue.
In this issue we feature: David Bacon (a world renowned photojournalist), Braulio Gonzalez ( a student photographer on the rise from East Palo Alto), Ronald Orlando (a musician photographer with profound images), Felipe R. Vasquez of Newark Califas (a photographer with keen eye for chicano culture imagery), and Charisse Domingo ( a photo journalist who showed us her first image she made).
If we unite digital won’t take over film, but just become a different medium.
This photo belongs to Rosary from San Jose who is a high school student who thinks film doesn’t like her. But check out her first go at night-time photography. Nice view of the bridge!
Black and White Film Photography/ Photo Story Class at De-Bug!
The Beginner Classes are back, and they’re back with a twist. In addition to teaching you the basic craft of black and white film development, we’re assigning students stories/ articles for De-Bug online and/or print publication. So you get to learn, and you can get published. What?! Sign up for the class by emailing us at thedarkroomatdebug@gmail.com or going to: http://darkroomatdebug.com/classes/
Abraham’s Back: Philippines Funk
One of our favorite hometown photographers, Abraham Menor, is back in San Jose with lots of photos from his journey to the Motherland. He spent the holidays in the Philippines and has the photos to prove it. Check out the homeland through his eyes….
“(Taking pictures with film) is very kind of rebellious against the digital age… that’s why I like it”
True words spoken by Molly Gardner, a film student at the Lomography Gallery Store in West Hollywood. Yes, film is still cool! Check out the article here that appeared in Southern California Public Radio….
LA shutterbugs take an analog approach to photography
Outside a storefront in West Hollywood, a crew of photographers – amateurs and professionals alike – fan out to capture the neighborhood on analog film. The group was part of a hands-on workshop devoted to the quirky Lomo cameras, which carry with them their own unpredictable aesthetic, spontaneous approach, and trademarked artistic community that rivals that of the mighty Polaroid. More….
Film Photography is Alive and Well
Arts Association of the East Bay Exposure Photography Program here at De-Bug
Teacher: Felipe Vasquez, Photos by Tiburon FB!
RIP Kodachrome Film
While Kodak stopped manufacturing this old-skool color film last year, the last of the Kodachrome rolls were processed late last year… Thanks for the memories, Kodachrome! If a roll is still tucked away in your bag or preserved in your fridge, consider yourself one of the Lucky ones.
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20110103/rolls-kodachrome-processed/
