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Photography

Fall 2024 Exhibitions

Fauxliage: Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West  — Photographer Annette LeMay Burke

On View Sept. 23–Dec. 13, 2024

Krause Center for Innovation Gallery
Building 4000, Lower Level VIEW MAP

peacock in middle of road

Superfluous Plumage, Rodeo, CA

Gallery Hours

  • Tuesday/Thursday: 1–8 p.m.
  • Saturday: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Artist Reception

Friday, Oct. 25 • 5-7 p.m.
KCI Gallery Building 4000, Lower Level

Virtual Artist Talk

Thursday, Nov. 21 • Noon-1 p.m.

Register to Join by Zoom

 

About the Artist

Meet Annette LeMay BurkeAnnette LeMay Burke is an award-winning artist and Northern California native. With a background in geology from the University of California, Berkeley, Burke's lens has long been attuned to the ever-evolving contours of the western landscape.

Burke’s work was selected for LensCulture Critics' Choice 2024. Her work was exhibited at London's Royal Geographical Society, cited by the Australian Geographic Environmental Awards, selected for Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50, awarded first place in the Lenscratch Vernacular Photography Exhibition and won the top award at the Imago Lisboa Photography Festival in Portugal.

Burke’s work is exhibited widely throughout the US and internationally. Her images have been featured in The New York Times, L.A. Times, The Times (London), Sierra Club Magazine, Newsweek Japan, and the Daily Mail. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Wieland Collection in Atlanta and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Burke’s monograph, Fauxliage: Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West, was published by Daylight Books in 2021.

Visit atelierlemay.com to learn more about Annette's work.

Artist Statement

About Fauxliage: Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West

Fauxliage captures the proliferation of disguised cell phone towers across the American West. By attempting to conceal an unsightly yet essential technology of the modern world, the landscape is now adorned with a quirky and unsettling mosaic of masquerading palms, conifers, flagpoles, crosses, and more. These structures are simulacra. They are water towers that hold no water, windmills that provide no power, and trees that provide no oxygen; yet they all provide five bars of service.

Beneath their often-whimsical camouflage lies a more clandestine narrative of surveillance capitalism, where big tech and government entities commodify our every digital interaction. The environmental repercussions are equally concerning: the aging faux trees shed plastic needles, adding to the ecological toll of our digital age. What began as an attempt to reduce visual pollution is now creating plastic pollution.

Traversing ten western states to document this architectural phenomenon, Fauxliage examines technology's dual role as a disruptor and unifier within the landscape. The disguised towers provoke a crucial question: How much ersatz landscape and manufactured nature are we willing to accept for connectivity?

As fifth-generation (5G) technology advances, these elaborate towers may become architectural relics of the past, and fade into obscurity like drive-up photo kiosks, phone booths, newsstands, and drive-in movie theaters. Coincidentally, those functionalities are now seamlessly integrated into our handheld devices — a poignant reminder of the evolution of the technological landscape.

In Gallery 6100: Photographer Jessica Chen: People, Parades & Protests

On View Sept. 23–Dec. 13, 2024

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Snake Charmer, Coney Island, NY, 2018

Gallery 6100 Hours

  • Gallery Hours: T, W, TH Noon to 3 p.m. or by appointment
  • To schedule a visit by appointment, email Judy Walgren at walgrenjudith@fhda.edu.

Opening Reception

Friday, Oct. 18 •  5–7 p.m.

Virtual Artist Talk

Thursday, Nov. 14 • Noon–1 p.m. 

Register to Join by Zoom

 

About the Artist

Meet Jessican Chen

Jessica Chen is a documentary photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A native Californian, Chen was born in San Francisco and grew up in Pacifica, a coastal beach town along the Pacific Coast Highway.

She earned a B.S. in Environmental Design with an emphasis in Visual Communication and a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of California, Davis, then went on to earn an M.F.A in Design and Technology with an emphasis in Narrative and Documentary Film from Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York City. Chen is on the board of the East Bay Photo Collective, and member of the American Photographic Artists (APA SF), Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP) and Women in Street (WiS).

Her photographs have been published and exhibited in over 50 group exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally.

Visit jchenphotographs.com to learn more about Jessica's work.

Artist Statement

About  People, Parades and Protests (2015 - Present)   

There are many genres of photography, street photography being a unique beast. The street is its own living breathing entity. In my series, People, Parades and Protests, I explore the energy of “flow” between seemingly disparate movements, motivations and emotions between people. I study how people navigate and organize themselves in public spaces in relation to each other. Their inner world often reveals themselves in gestures, expressions, and movements both grand and subtle; this is where the subtext of life for me resides.  

 

In the Administration 1900 Lobby

Young woman jumping up

Adeline, 2024

Foothill College Transition to Work Collaborative Portraiture Project, with Photographer Judy Walgren

The portraits on display were made in collaboration between the 2023-2024 TTW students, Photography Department professor Judy Walgren and the TTW director Ben Kaupp to publish in the annual TTW zine. Each student directed their own poses, decided whether or not to use props and chose their favorite image for the exhibition.

Artist Reception

Wednesday, Nov. 6 •  11 a.m.–1 p.m., Building 1900 Lobby

Please join us to meet the TTW students and their families, and to hear from the artist Judy Walgren.


For more information, contact Judy Walgren, walgrenjudith@fhda.edu or Ben Kaupp, kauppben@fhda.edu.

 

More ABOUT TTW Program

Fall Heritage Month Photography Talks

Latiné Heritage Month

Virtual Artist Talk: Gabriela Hasbun
THURSDAY, OCT. 17  at NOON–1 PM

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Meet Gabriela HasbunGabriela Hasbun is a Salvadoran-American photographer based in San Francisco. Working mainly in editorial photography specializing in portraits, Hasbun finds much of her inspiration by simply paying attention to what surrounds her in “the streets, talking to people, and listening to stories on the radio”. These influences are reflected in the subjects she chooses to focus her series on, from the streets in San Francisco, to the Black rodeo, to an editorial story about fat activists in the Bay Area. Hasbun and her camera have captured a little bit of everything. The result? An impressive CV accompanied by a collection of intriguing photos that bring viewers into worlds otherwise unexplored.

Visit gabrielahasbun.com to learn more about Gabriela's work.

All Latiné Heritage Month Events


For more information about our Foothill Photography exhibitions, please email Judy Walgren at walgrenjudith@fhda.edu.

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Questions?
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Judy Walgren, Photography Department Chair

650.949.7555


walgrenjudith@fhda.edu


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