The Guardsman & theguardsman.com | aug. 20 - sept. 2, 2014 | 5
culture
Ken Light and Lou Demmatteis featured
City Hall hosts City College instructors’ photo exhibit Photo and Story by Nathaniel Y. Downes
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The Valley/El Valle: Photo-essays from California’s Heartland, the current photo exhibit hanging in City Hall was put on by The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries and curated by Ann Jastrab, Rayko’s gallery director. The exhibit highlights the work of nine photographers, two of which are City College instructors. Ken Light who is teaching Business Practices of Photography this semester and teaches Documentary Photography in the spring shows selected works from his recent book Valley of Shadows and Dreams (Heyday 2012). Lou Demmatteis teaches Intermediate Photojournalism at City College shows a photo essay taken March 2, 1975 that features a march of United Farm Workers of America led by Cesar Chavez. On Tuesday, Aug. 12, Ken Light and five other artists spoke about their work at the Koret Auditorium in the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch. The photos can be seen at City Hall on the ground floor and in the North Light Court. The exhibition is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. until Sept. 19. There are also 40 kiosks downtown featuring many of the photos included in the exhibit.
Charlotte Niel’s landscapes are shown in City Hall’s North Light Court.
One of the 40 kiosks with poster-sized prints of selected images from the exhibit is located on Market Street at Powell Street and holds the work of Lou Demmatteis.
Ken Light discusses his work at a panel discussion at the Koret Auditorium in the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch.
Charlotte Niel’s landscapes are shown in City Hall’s North Light Court.
Ken Light and Lou Demmatteis’ work can be viewd on the ground floor aat City Hall.