My image, “Eggs,” is included in the exhibition Food with a Twist at the new Oakland Photo Workshop (OPW) Gallery.
The exhibition opens January 23, 2022, and runs through March 11, with a reception on Saturday, March 5, from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Featuring the work of East Bay Photo Collective members, this exhibition explores our relationship with food - the comforts, challenges, and essential aspects of our daily interactions with the nourishment that sustains us. A cookbook based on the show is also planned. The exhibition was coordinated, and the jury was chaired, by Neeley Drown.
I’m honestly not a big fan of eating eggs by themselves. But the eggs in my photo have a special meaning for me. This past summer, I took a vacation for the first time since the pandemic had begun. I’m very grateful to have continued working, and I’d worked hard and was very ready for time off. I stayed at a house in the country, which, in a surprise me, came with several friendly chickens in the yard. They laid eggs several times during my stay. My image shows some of those eggs.
OPW is a community gallery and workspace, hosted by the East Bay Photo Collective and offering exhibitions by local photographers and community groups, photography classes, talks by local artists, photo walks, and meetups.
It is located at 312 East 8th Street, Oakland, CA, 94697, in the historic Asian Resource Center in Oakland’s Chinatown. OPW can be reached by phone at 510-922-8467.