Category Archives: Photography
Richard Friedman: right time, right place photography
When Richard Friedman came to Berkeley from Greenwich Village in 1968 to take a job at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, it took a while for his eyes to adjust. One of the first photographs he took in the city (above) shows a street with the hills rising behind it. “What impressed me, coming from New York, was seeing distances,” he says. “My eyes were so accustomed to narrow streets and caverns of buildings that moving to Berkeley required changing … Continue reading »
An ethereal sunset at the Berkeley Marina
Berkeleysider Christina Diaz took these beautiful photographs of the Berkeley Marina at sunset on Saturday December 11. See the full set at Christina Diaz blog.
Richard Nagler: Waiting for the decisive moment
Richard Nagler was a painter until he decided to be a photographer. “Paintings are about the painter,” he told a rapt audience at UC Berkeley’s Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism on the evening of November 30th. “Photography is about ‘the other’, about what you see. It’s not about yourself. That’s why, emotionally, photography spoke to me.”
Berkeley’s Heyday Books has just published Nagler’s third book of photography, “Word on the Street”, which … Continue reading »
City images: Berkeley Photo Walk deemed a success
Around a dozen keen photographers gathered on Saturday morning outside Amanda’s restaurant on Shattuck for the first Berkeleyside-inspired Berkeley Photo Walk.
Orchestrated by enthusiastic snapper Ira Serkes, the group included other names familiar to Berkeleyside readers who appreciate the images we cull from our Flickr pool. Among them: Keoki Seu, bobcrazybear and Jef Poskanzer. Kim Aronson, who recently made his debut on Berkeleyside with a slice-of-life video about softball coach Ray Weschler, also showed up, … Continue reading »
The beauty of Berkeley’s fossils
I am not usually the kind of person who buys a calendar to hang on my wall, but I may have to make an exception this year.
Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology has produced a 2011 calendar with absolutely stunning photos. The pictures are of fossils dating back thousands of years. The calendar was created as part of the first annual National Fossil Day, which took place on October 13.
You … Continue reading »
Join the first Berkeley photowalk
How many of us, as we walk around our city, really keep our eyes open? From the responses to our Wednesday morning Where in Berkeley? quiz, it’s clear there are a few eagle-eyed Berkeleyans out there. Wouldn’t it be nice, however, to ally an observer’s eye with a better sense of photography?
Well, here’s your chance. Ira Serkes, a regular Where in Berkeley? winner and a keen photographer, has organized a Berkeleyside-inspired photowalk. Photowalks are … Continue reading »
Capturing Berkeleyside photographer Keoki Seu
Readers often admire the photography on Berkeleyside and ask us who takes the images. Chances are they are probably referring to the work of Keoki Seu, whose photographs often accompany our daily news Wire, frequently pop up in our weekly “Where in Berkeley?” slot and occasionally are at the heart of a news story.
Keoki’s photography is often nothing short of extraordinary, and we thought you might like to know a little more about the person behind these arresting images — not least the fact that he is not actually a professional photographer. Berkeleyside feels honored to publish Keoki’s work and we asked him to share some of his story, as well as some of his favorite photographs which we reproduce here.
Keoki, how long have you lived in Berkeley and where did you move from?
I’ve lived in Berkeley just over three and a half years. I moved here after I completed graduate school in Virginia.
Which neighborhood do you live in?
I live in north Berkeley, at the end of the Gourmet Ghetto. I find that quite a bit of my photography comes from that area, because I walk through there daily.
What do you do for a living?
I’m a postdoctoral research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I work at the X-Ray facility at the Lab called the Advanced Light Source.
When did you take up photography?
I’m relatively new to photography. I bought my first point-and-shoot about six years ago and used it sporadically. About two years ago, after my brother bought a nice digital SLR and I saw how well it captured images, so I decided to get one as well. I bought my SLR camera off eBay about a year and a half ago, and that is the camera I still use. … Continue reading »
Understated style: tweeting the Chez Panisse way
Last month Chez Panisse succumbed to social media madness and joined Twitter. But, rather than bombard its already 2,431 followers with promotional messages or daily menu updates, the Alice Waters-owned restaurant is playing it cool and tweeting with the understated style we have come to expect from the team that works with Berkeley’s Slow Food queen.
Every few days a beautiful photograph will be shared — be it a mother and daughter enjoying a leisurely midday repast, … Continue reading »
Defending rivers and the people who depend on them
Water is the subject of a panel discussion this evening at the David Brower Center to kick off Water, Rivers and People/Agua, Ríos y Pueblos, a photography exhibition in the center’s Hazel Wolf Gallery.
The exhibition, an international collaboration, is an homage to those who fight to defend rivers and the people who depend on them. Through its striking imagery, the exhibition charts inspiring examples of rivers that have been protected by citizen action, and community-led efforts … Continue reading »
40th anniversary of Berkeley’s Kent State protest
Today is the 40th anniversary of Kent State, where four students were shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen.
The students were shot during a protest against President Richard Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia, which he had announced on television a few days earlier.
The day after the shootings, students at UC Berkeley launched their own protest. This photo, supplied by the Bancroft Library as part of their “Digital Object of the Day,” shows student protesters walking around Sather Gate. … Continue reading »
