Postcard

Angela Dawn White

Digital photography offers me instant feedback, allowing me to react and respond. This reflects my life as a new mother – very much in every moment. I find myself in the moment because where else would I want to be?

I am experiencing a reawaking of creativity in my life. My daughter is teaching me to slow down and look again. I want to photograph everything. The most mundane object takes on new life. I am anthropomorphizing fire hydrants, studying the aging blues of an EBMUD valve cover, detailing the cracks of a broken window, soaking up nothing but the color of some random building.

My work is moving in new directions. I’m trying new things. What I see is changing and how I see is changing. It’s a time of transition. Often my composition is askew or off-center, expressing this place of transition, expressing challenge.

Traditional black and white photography has always been the backbone of my work, Polaroid transfers my experimentation, but today color digital is the only medium that can keep up with me.

Becky Brockman

Photography has captured my interest since high school (thank you Mr. Witt!). I fell in love with working in the darkroom and making each picture an individual work of art. My main interests include cemeteries, stairways, night photography, and found "multiples" such as an odd number of similar things in one place where they shouldn't be (antiques stores are great places for this). As a chemist, I’m interested in the process of the developing of the film and pictures, and experimenting with “alternative photography.”

I’ve always been attracted to cemeteries- from the time I was four and my mother took me to my first cemetery and I asked her "Is this heaven?" Since then I've been intrigued by the beautiful statuary, especially the old and dilapidated statues. The idea of nature overwhelming these religious icons is extremely powerful to me. I love capturing this in statues with missing fingers, broken wings, and spider webs or moss that cover their faces for example.

I will always have a love of black and white photography, but I have begun integrating color and digital photography into my life as well. I also enjoy creating sculptures (large found object sculptures are my favorite), as well as ceramics, and textiles.

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and continued my education in chemistry, physics, and photography at Northern Michigan University. I was awed by the rural beauty of the Upper Peninsula, the gorgeous sunsets, and the aurora borealis. Currently I’m a graduate student in the chemistry department at UC Berkeley, always trying to sneak away from the laboratory to play in the dark room.

Eriq Riebeek

I was born in Paramaribo, Suriname. Where I attended the Nola Hatterman art school. I come from a family of known painters ( brothers Dennis and Winston) in this former Dutch Colony.

My works are focusing on portraiture of specific human expressions and narrative portraits.

Judy Shelton