Urban Design + Development + Economics + Community
Since my first Op Ed for UrbDeZine, I’ve made the successful transition in careers I aimed to achieve: on December 21st, 2016 I celebrated my graduation as a Peer Support Specialist, a position that requires lived experience and empathy to assist and empower peers in their transition to wellness from mental challenges. [Read more…] about San Diego Architectural Foundation’s Open House tour with Orlando
Over the weekend I was glad to do my monthly architecture tour through Los Angeles and Orange County. On my tour I was in search of grey flames, hot emerging materials and textures that exist within a grayscale spectrum but are much more vibrant than mundane. I analyzed and criticized aluminum, zinc, metal, grey paint, grey concrete, etc, and found these images (below) as a result, enjoy! [Read more…] about Grey Flames: Aluminum Photo Blog
Are you concerned about climate change? Do you want visual evidence that it is actually happening? Do you live in a coastal community? Are you passionate about photography? If you answer yes to any (or all) of these questions, I highly recommend that you pay a visit to the Annenberg Space for Photography, one of my favorite places in Los Angeles. [Read more…] about Exhibit Review: Sink or Swim – climate change resilience in photographs at Los Angeles’s Annenberg
I have always enjoyed flipping through the pages of National Geographic because they contain such wonderful and powerful images. A few years ago, I was sitting in a jury room at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Downtown Los Angeles when I came across issues of the magazine from the 1940s and 1950s. [Read more…] about Exhibit Review: The Power of Photography
An international exhibition of photographic art
at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery in
San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter [Read more…] about The 2011 Art of Photography Show begins
An international exhibition of photographic art
at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery in
San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter [Read more…] about The 2011 Art of Photography Show begins
Photography is one of those occupations we all have contemplated pursuing as an art form at one time or another – whether as a hobby or as a profession. Its a bit like singing. Down deep, there’s a musician in all of us. With photography, you see something that evokes an emotion or a feeling, and you want to capture and preserve it. [Read more…] about San Diego At Night by Steven Churchill
Photography is one of those occupations we all have contemplated pursuing as an art form at one time or another – whether as a hobby or as a profession. Its a bit like singing. Down deep, there’s a musician in all of us. With photography, you see something that evokes an emotion or a feeling, and you want to capture and preserve it. [Read more…] about San Diego At Night by Steven Churchill