Doug Rickard: A New American Picture
Presented in the exhibition HERE.
Pier 24 Photography / May 23rd - December 16th, 2011

Utilizing the comprehensive image archive Google Street View for his series A New American Picture, photographer Doug Rickard virtually drives the unseen and overlooked roads of America, to find bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated, and abandoned. Collectively, these images present a startling photographic portrait of the socially disenfranchised, providing deeply affecting evidence of the American Dream inverted. Selections from A New American Picture were included in Pier 24 Photography's exhibition, HERE..

John Chiara: Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge
Commissioned for the exhibition HERE.
Pier 24 Photography / May 23rd - December 16th, 2011

John Chiara photographs landscapes in a process that is part photography, part event, and part sculpture – an undertaking in apparatus and patience. Many times this process involves composing pictures from the inside of a large hand-built camera, that is mounted on a flatbed trailer, and produces large scale, one of a kind, positive exposures. Two works investigating the gateways of San Francisco, the Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, were commissioned for Pier 24 Photography's exhibition, HERE..