"I'm starting with the man in the mirror" by 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 […]
Visual arts
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Defending rivers and the people who depend on them
Khoteswa, Narmada River, India 1999 by Karen Robinson. 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 […]
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40th anniversary of Berkeley’s Kent State protest
Protestors at UC Berkeley, May 5, 1970, Courtesy of Bancroft Library 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 […]
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Berkeley and the 1906 earthquake
Sunday is the 104th anniversary of the massive 1906 San Francisco earthquake and SFGate.com is honoring the occasion by running 39 pictures from Berkeley author Richard Schwartz’s book on the subject. Earthquake Exodus 1906, Berkeley Responds to the San Francisco Refugees discusses – in words and pictures – how numerous San Francisco residents came to […]
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Opening: Marc Riboud photography
This Friday, March 12th, sees the official opening of the “Marc Riboud Photographs” exhibition at the Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography at UC Berkeley. Marc Riboud is considered one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century. He joined the Magnum photo agency in Paris in the early 1950s and traveled extensively, working with […]
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A L@te start to the weekend
If the aim of Berkeley Art Museum’s L@te Friday night events is to generate some buzz, the museum has succeeded. Last night’s event had the energy of a good cocktail party, which seemed to be picking up steam at 8:30. (I bet they had to shoo people out at the 9 p.m. closing — I […]
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Capturing forgotten faces: the $2 portraits project
Justin Beck shot the above portrait on Shattuck Avenue. He paid the man, whose name he couldn’t identify, $2.00 and chatted to him for a while. The portrait was taken as part of an initiative Beck is participating in called the $2 Portraits Project which was launched by San Francisco photographer Thomas Hawk on June 12 2008. […]
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Nick DeWolf photo essay: UC Berkeley campus, 1968
The Berkeleyside Flickr pool is attracting many talented photographers. These four images of the UC Berkeley campus in 1968 are part of an archival series of photographs by Nick DeWolf, and were posted there by his son-in-law Steve Lundeen. Nick De Wolf was co-founder of Teradyne Corporation and he is credited with designing more than […]
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Send us your Berkeley photos
Berkeleyside wants to publish great photos of Berkeley and we would love them to be yours. We have started a Berkeleyside photo pool — find it in the right-hand side column of the blog — and we encourage you to upload your photos there, be they reportage, arty, ethereal or gritty. Every day we will […]