William Thompson’s Everest at Baer Ridgway

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Image by William Thompson.

Saturday is the opening of William Thompson’s show “Everest” at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions in San Francisco. From the Baer Ridgway website:

These images represent a fresh and rare view of the border between emerging superpowers and their often vulnerable smaller neighbors. In this geopolitical scenario, each player has greatly varying perspectives, histories and agendas. It is this composite and comparison of the unflinching beauty, danger and immensity of the natural world within such a politically contested landscape that makes these photographs so compelling.

Event Details:
William Thompson’s “Everest”
Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, 172 Minna Street, San Francisco
Show runs June 25 through July 25
Opening reception June 27, 4-6pm
Artist walk through and lecture June 11, 5pm

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Bill Owens speaks at SFAI

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Photo by Bill Owens

Tonight, Photoalliance presents a talk by photographer Bill Owens.

To see some photos of Bill and his work, check out an older blog post with photos from a Bill Owens exhibition at PhotoCentral in Hayward.

Event Details:
PhotoAlliance presents Bill Owens
June 26, 2009, 7:30pm
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut St, San Francisco
$10 general admission, $5 students, tickets available at the door

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A train ride to Eugene

I thought it would be useful to have a mobile base for the photo projects that I’m working on, especially for the Hetch Hetchy project that will take me between San Francisco and Yosemite this summer. Which led to a train trip north to Eugene, Oregon.

The overnight train ride, the Amtrak Coast Starlight was amazing. The sleeper cabin with two narrow beds was so quiet and it was easy to sleep.

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Boarding in Emeryville late Saturday. The station is close enough that we walked from home.

 

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Next morning, wake up at the Klamath Falls, Oregon station.

 

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A 45 minute stop is enough time to get out and stretch your legs. So much more pleasant than airplane travel.

 

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The parlor car has a small cafe and lounge chairs for sleeper cabin customers.

 

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It was such a different experience to see the scenery from ground level instead of through the tiny porthole of an airplane.

 

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Arrive in Eugene and pick up the 1991 VW Vanagon camper, then a 10 hour drive back to Oakland. Ready for adventure this summer.
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Photocartographies: the day after

On the Sunday after the opening of Photocartographies it was time to head back to Oakland. After stopping for some vegan breakfast at Swingers Diner I took a few more photos and then drove back up I-5.

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Coming up, photos from a train trip to Eugene, Oregon.

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Photocartographies: the opening

Finally, some shots from the opening of the Photocartographies exhibition. There was a large turnout which I didn’t really capture in my photos because I was busy talking and didn’t have much time to take pictures so you’ll just have to believe me. Several friends stopped by which was great, and I finally got to meet the curators Adam Katz and Brian Rosa who were awesome and did an amazing job putting the show together.

The show will be up through June 30 so you still have a few weeks to check it out, more info here. Now, on to the photos…

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The gallery, g727 in downtown L.A. I’d never been in this neighborhood and the architecture was a surprise.

 

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It was a huge thrill to see my name listed with Frank Gohlke and David Maisel in the window.

 

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g727 is an open airy space and the way the show was hung made it easy to see the work even once it got crowded.

 

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My friend Tao Urban who I know from Rhode Island where we used to ride scooters together. (Note to self, take off lens shade before using flash.)

 

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Matt and Kim came up from Long Beach. I neglected to get a picture of Paul Turounet and Sharyn who drove up from San Diego. Thank you all for coming!

 

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Some of the work in the show:

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Noah Beil

 

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Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of Angie Waller’s piece.

 

Some installation shots once the crowd had left for the night:

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Adam Katz and Brian Rosa, serious about recycling.

 

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Good night!
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Wandering in Santa Monica

On to part 2 of the exciting L.A. road trip. I ended up staying in Santa Monica and had some time to walk around on Saturday before heading to the gallery (g727) in L.A.

Checked out the beach and then made the mandatory stop at Hennessey + Ingalls bookstore, a great place to browse for photobooks. Ended up with 5 new books.

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Road trip to Los Angeles: the drive down

Well it’s been a few weeks since I drove down to Los Angeles for the opening of Photocartographies. I’ve been busy and really slow about putting up the opening photos. So here the finally are, starting with the road trip from Oakland to L.A.

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    My name is Noah Beil and I'm a landscape photographer exploring aspects of historical ecology and landscape architecture through photography.

    I live in Oakland, California, and I blog about photography gallery openings and events in San Francisco and the East Bay (mostly Oakland and Berkeley) and also photographers from other parts of the world who are making interesting work (especially alternative landscape photography.)

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