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2025 Alameda on Camera
2025 Alameda On Camera Exhibit
A Juried, Photo-Based, Multimedia Competition
48 ● 48 ● 48
April 4 - May 31
Reception: Saturday, April 12 • 3 – 5 pm
Alameda on Camera is an annual, juried event conducted throughout the City of Alameda. For 48 hours, beginning 9:00 pm Friday and ending 9:00 pm Sunday, 48 photo-based adult artists and our youth artists roam the City of Alameda and capture images of neighborhood, favorite places, secret hideaways and, if they choose, spotlight families, friends and famous (and infamous!) town characters.
Fire Escape Oasis by Jeff Shelby, 2025 Marketing Award
Congratulations to the Alameda On Camera Participants!
Chris Adamson ◊ Ken Banks ◊ Ivan Baxarias ◊ Michele Bock ◊ RE Casper ◊ Bernard Coll ◊ Jeff Cullen ◊ Andre Cunha ◊ Dave E. Dondero ◊ Jim DuPont ◊ Stephen Elbert ◊ Maya Euell-Hazard ◊ Lisa Gonzalves ◊ Taggart Gorman ◊ Roxanne Gray ◊ Robert Hamner ◊ Julian Harris ◊ Jenn Heflin ◊ Jeff Heyman ◊ Susan Hillyard ◊ Gerard Hughes ◊ Becky Jaffe ◊ Lindy Johnson ◊ Kevin Jordan ◊ Ryan Lanthier ◊ Eddy Lehrer ◊ Petra Liljestrand ◊ Charles Lucke ◊ Andrea Madison ◊ Karen Braun Malpas ◊ Andy McKee ◊ Alana Melvin ◊ Melina Meza ◊ Elisabeth Middelberg ◊ Aisling O'Callaghan ◊ Gregory Pease ◊ Manuel Perez ◊ Andrea Pook ◊ Michael Ruggiero ◊ Jeff Shelby ◊ Yaniv Sherman ◊ Anna Smalley ◊ Luis Solorzano ◊ Steven Ta ◊ James Van Slyke ◊ Jane Waterbury ◊ Nick Winkworth ◊ Chris Witte
Alameda On Camera Youth Participants
John Kim ◊ Declan McFarland ◊ Charlotte Orthwein ◊ Miles Wilson
2025 Alameda On Camera Juror Eduardo Soler
Eduardo is an award-winning photographer who started his career in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Later he worked full time as a staff photographer for The Sharper Image catalog company in San Francisco. His clients include Bayer HealthCare, Novartis, Intuit, Boehringer Ingelheim, University of the Pacific, among others. Eduardo has also shown his work in art fine art galleries such as the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
ALAMEDA ON CAMERA 2025 Occupies the FRANK BETTE CENTER
by Karen Braun Malpas
For the 19th year in a row, FBCA is hosting their big annual show which features 48 artists who had 48 hours in which to document their assigned 1/48 of the map of Alameda followed by a month of making photo-based works from their photos.
Needless to say, this framework generated a LOT of work most of which could be hung, three-deep, salon style. While there is much that is interesting, competent, novel or beautiful, there is only time and space here to mention a few that really struck me.
Manuel Perez shows a visual duet in “Beware” and “Beacon in the Night.” Both feature a bright light emanating from urban darkness, The colors are reduced to black, yellow, red detail and some green. While the lights are significant, the un-illuminated darkness is full of mystery and portent. Because that is where the viewer is, we have a feeling more visceral than visual.
Gregory Pease photographed the metal fencing around the playground of a school at night, “Let Me In.” The fence is decorated with the shape of hands emblazoning the borders of this kid zone. Because it is nighttime and no children or activity are present, this image has the eerie quality of a ski lift in the summer, or a drained swimming pool ,—the feeling of pause and potential.
“Awaiting Company” is James Van Slyke’s photo of a teal colored bench with ochre and sepia bike racks. It is simple, pure design and satisfyingly resonant in its haiku-like qualities.
Roxanne Gray peeked “Through the Broken Window” and discovered a world of movement and illusions gyrating within the enclosed space. We have the voyeurs delight of looking into an Easter egg to enter a enchanted world.
In “Night Bloom”, Nick Winkworth saw a huge night-blooming magnolia tree beside a building where a lit window told us there was also a person up at night, In speaking to his window tree, tree at my window, Robert Frost acknowledged their kinship with “That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.“
Michele Bock arranged a “Midnight Picnic”, a still life laid out in the manner of a Dutch painting. She depicted fruit, cheese and chocolate on sheepskin The flemish masters often included loaves of bread and dead game birds. Both show a carefully placed arrangement emerging from a dark background with pinpoints of light on (for example) droplets of juice oozing from fruit, bloodstains on a pheasants chest or light glinting from metal utensils. The content of this photo exists on levels beyond the variety of textures it depicts.
The future of AOK is insured by excellence emerging from the Junior Photographers. Declan McFarland noted “The Hose” arranged just so as if in repose on an uncharacteristically peaceful dock.
Alameda’s revolving displays of stunning skies were beautifully captured by Lisa Gonsalves, Jim Dupont, ,Andrea Madison, Ivan Baxarias, Yaniv Sherman, Petra Liljestrand, Chris Witte, Elizabeth Middleburg, Andrea Pook, Andre Cunha, Maya Euell-Hazard, Chris Adamson, RE Casper,and Greory Pease.
Many artists acknowledged the island of Alameda’s respect for bridges as connectors to the mainland. Some photographers captured the lyrical beauty of a bridge’s span or the inherent beauty in its hardware . They include Susan Hillyard, Stephen Elbert, Robert Hamner, Lindy Johnson, Jane Waterbury, Jeff Shelby and Maya Euell-Hazard .
This dense show illustrates once again how generously Alameda has been endowed with sites and sights that stir not only the visual but all of the senses. This is a show well worth seeing on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday from 11-5 through May 31st at 1601 Paru st., Alameda.
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