EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS
 A
Mid-Market Area Documentary
 October
5-31, 2007
Red Ink Studios
1035 Market Street, San Francisco
Gallery hours: 2 pm -6pm
Thursday through Saturday
Free Portrait Days / Gallery Open
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 p.m - 5 p.m.
Saturday, November 17, 2007 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Originally loosly based in 1940s photography by WeeGee, this project
was made possible with a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commision
and by David and Jamie Addington
Open for viewing in November and December during
scheduled "Free Portrait Days" to be announced here!
Come to a "Free Portrait Day." See the exhibition, meet
Sixth Street Photographers, and receive a complimentary artistic studio
portrait. Also, open by appointment: please call (415) 778-4007 or email
tferentz@yahoo.com
The Power of Portraiture
de Saisset Museum
Santa Clara University
January 13-March 4, 2007
Photographers’ panel and reception: Thursday, January 18, 4:00
PM
www.scu.edu/desaisset
Stories of the City
 San
Francisco By Night
Inspired by photographers Wee Gee (1940s New York) and Brassai (1930s Paris), San Francisco By Night follows their footsteps with atmospheric night photography of San Francisco. Shown at Red Ink Studios, 1035 Market Street, San Francisco, in May of 2007. Funded by the Cultural Equity Program of San Francisco Arts Commission.
Photo by Jerome Trumpet, 2006
Stories of the City – an Exhibition in Two
Sites
Tom Ferentz, Artistic Director
Amanda Herman, Program Director
Recent Exhibitions:
 Talking
Market Street: If Market Street Could Talk
Is a unique collaboration between adults from the Sixth Street Photography
Workshop and youth photographers from Fostering
Art. During June and July 2006 the groups hosted portrait sessions and conducted interviews on street corners along Market Street from Castro Street to the Embarcadero. The project culminated in two outdoor evening slide presentations on buildings along Market Street.
 Talking
Market Street was funded by a grant from the San Francisco
Arts Commission's Art on Market street Program.
Event Information:
Friday Oct. 20, 2006
One Bush Street Plaza (at Market)
Projection Begins at 8pm
Friday Oct. 27, 2006
NE. Corner of 6th and Market Streets
Projection Begins at 8pm
China Tour
September 2006: Fifteen-year retrospective
Gallery talks with Artistic Director Tom Ferentz
In cooperation with Fotoyard, China
www.fotoyard.com
Arc Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
Dec 1-30, 2006
Stories of the City
SF Main Public Library
Jewlett Gallery
April 2005
100 Larkin St
San Francisco, CA 94102
Using photographic portraits and personal narratives this exhibition
documents the community living in and around several Single Room Occupancy
(SRO) hotels in San Francisco. Stories of the City presents a cross
section of SRO residents and gives insight into who they are, where
they come from, what their lives are like, and their dreams for the
future. Drawn from the Workshop’s archives, and including oral
histories by Nancy Deutsch, the materials provide a historical look
at some of San Francisco’s most disenfranchised residents from
1992 until today. SSPW has a history of involvement at each site.
View
Exhibit... (flash required)
Stories of the City Events:
April 13 - July 22, 2005
San Francisco Arts
Commission Gallery
City Hall, lower level
April 3 – May 29, 2005
San Francisco Main Library
Jewett Gallery, lower level
Public Hearing
Saturday, April 2, 2005
1pm – 3pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
“Public Hearing” features recorded life stories of residents
from San Francisco’s Single Residence Occupancy Hotels by Oral
Historian Nancy Deutsch with a portrait slide show from Sixth Street
Photo Workshop’s archive.
Opening Reception at City Hall
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
5:30-7:30pm
Stories of the City: An Inside Look
Artist Presentations
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Main Library, Koret Auditorium, lower level
3pm program, Reception to follow
 The
Bayanihan House Portraits
Bayanihan House
May 15 – 31, 2004
88 Sixth Street
San Francisco, CA. 94103
Bayanihan House Portraits began in October 2003, the day residents moved into this newly renovated residential hotel on Sixth Street. Sixth Street Photography Workshop held numerous free portrait sessions in public areas of the building and in resident's rooms. Nancy
Deutsch recorded their life stories. An exhibition of the pictures at the hotel opened in May 2004. They have become a centerpiece of our portrait collection and were included in the retrospective, "Stories of the City" at SF City Hall and Main Public Library, April 2005. Click
to Read Oral Histories
 Tenderloin
Portraits and On-Site Portrait Studio
Southern Exposure Gallery
January 9 – February 21, 2004
401 Alabama St
San Francisco, CA. 94110
Sixth Street Photography Workshop worked for over three years with
residents of the Senator Hotel and the surrounding Tenderloin neighborhood
to create Tenderloin Portraits. The project involved community members
in creating portraits using creative photography techniques and studio
lighting. The resulting black and white and color-enhanced photographs
were exhibited at Southern Exposure. During the course of the exhibition,
Southern Exposure invited various community groups to participate
in on-site photography workshops The resulting images were added to
the exhibition. The groups included youth and families from: The Friendship
House, McClymonds High School in West Oakland, Youth in Action of
the San Francisco Conservation Corps, and the Southern Exposure. Youth
Advisory Board.
 Photography
in Cohen Alley
509 Cultural Center and Gallery
April 11 – May 4, 2003
509 Ellis Street
San Francisco, CA.
Photography In Cohen Alley was the result of a series of photography
and portraiture workshops Sixth Street Photography Workshop conducted
in San Francisco's newest and most unusual outdoor art space: Cohen
Alley. The space was a former bottleneck alley that was transformed
by the Luggage Store Gallery into the only gated Alley for Art in
the continental United States. The exhibition used artistic photographic
portraiture techniques to make a compelling study of unique individuals
residing in the Tenderloin. Photography In Cohen Alley also included
images by members of Sixth Street Photography Workshop who met in
Cohen Alley every week for nearly a year to practice and teach photography.
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