Rite of Passage at San Francisco City Hall

My photograph, "You know without having seen," will be included in the exhibition, Rite of Passage. This photograph is from my series, "From destruction grows a garden of the soul."

Rite of Passage, presented by Ziya Art Center, celebrates Nowruz, the Persian New Year and includes work that "reflect[s] the unique cultural, spiritual, and creative interpretations of artists who have been working directly in their natural environment or have implemented nature in their art through their creative expression."

The work will be exhibited on video projectors, screens, and monitors this Friday, March 25, at San Francisco City Hall, located at 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102-4678. Additional work will be exhibited in Ziya's online gallery.

Rite of Passage was co-curated and juried by Arash Shirinbab and Minoosh Zomorodinia of Ziya Art Center, with the aid of assistant curators Faezeh Faezipour and Shaghayegh Shirinbab.

Square Magazine Special Issue - Holga

My photograph, "From darkness we find each other," is included in a special issue of Square Magazine featuring the Holga, one of my favorite cameras, which ceased production in November 2015.

Here is how Editor-in-Chief Christophe Dillinger introduced this special issue:

To commemorate the demise of the Chinese Holga factory, here is a collection of images taken with the iconic camera, the result of a worldwide call for contribution. We are very proud of the response we got from the artists. Holga is dead, Long live Holga.

From darkness we find each other by J. M. Golding

From darkness we find each other by J. M. Golding

You can read the issue on Issu here, or in pdf format here. My photo is on p. 21.

9th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show at RayKo Gallery

My photograph, "Infinity," is included in the 9th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show at RayKo Gallery.

Infinity by J. M. Golding

Infinity by J. M. Golding

The exhibition runs from March 9 through April 29, 2016, with an opening reception on Wednesday, March 9, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. RayKo Gallery is located at 428 Third Street, San Francisco, CA94107 and can be reached by phone at 415-495-3773.

The juror for the show was fine art photographer, master printer, teacher, and RayKo Gallery Director Ann Jastrab.