Somapagmahal photo mxntorship workshop on portraiture and consent –

How did the use of consent in taking photographs affect your photography? How did the presentation today affect how you took photos?

The presentation made me realize that every picture has a theme or a story whether its planned or not; that to take a picture means to capture a moment.
I appreciated the Manong pictures (in the presentation) because they were a big part of our Filipino history here in SOMA.
I asked by partner before I took a photo. We also asked each other when we wanted to take the photo.
I also asked if they liked the angle.
It showed me that taking pictures meant something.
I took candid pics which are pretty.
I always ask if I can take picture of people and if they don’t agree, I woudn’t do it.
We asked each other where we want to take the picture.
I asked my friend to take pictures of me in a nice way.
We took pictures of each other and I asked them if they can take pictures of me.
I made sure that I asked for consent so that the person gives me the approval.
After the presentation, I will always make sure to ask for other people’s consent and explain to them why I am taking pictures.
We respected each other’s decision on taking the picture.
We asked each other if we can take each others pictures in a public sphere.
The presentation helped me understand how photography started and how it impacted people.
And from these pictures, we can relive people’s moments or just get to know them or learn from it.

Photographer Erina Alejo of the Somapagmahal photo mxntorship program talked about portraiture, consent and examples of the valuable work of local community photographers

“Brown In The Sunshine” by artist Erina Alejo

The ROSE Participants checked out the exhibition Brown in The Sunshine at Bindlestiff Studios and had a small discussion about the selection of photographs in the exhibition

About the exhibition, Brown In The Sunshine:

Curated by Erina Alejo and SoMapagmahal Photography Mxntorship Program, Brown in the Sunshine is a multidisciplinary exhibition that centers and celebrates life as SOMA Pilipinas youth in the sunshine.
Sunshine is symbolic in childhood, particularly for the lived experiences of youth in SOMA where the sun’s rays illuminate our community cultural wealth. Sunshine embodies our intergenerational joys and struggles in advocating for our SOMA Pilipinas community against displacement and gentrification. Like affordable housing, accessible public parks and spaces and equitable education, sunshine has become a limited commodity in the high cost of living, concrete and technology that encompasses our SOMA neighborhood.
Brown in the Sunshine celebrates SoMapagmahal’s three years of centering SOMA youth narratives through works by the program’s youth artists, including, most recently, their civic engagement with defending and protecting our local and historical Victoria Manalo Draves Park. The exhibit also features archives from artist, educator and SoMapagmahal co-founder Erina Alejo and their family’s organizing work with SOMA Pilipinas, most notably, with Filipino Education Center’s Galing Bata Afterschool Program from the 90s to the present.
In dialogue, the youth artists and Alejo’s works centers resilience, resistance and possibilities. As audiences, we are constantly humbled by the generosity and empathy of our youth artists in engagement of one another as cultural producers in community and self-advocacy. The exhibition embodies being Brown in the Sunshine– a phrase referencing Roy Ayer’s 1976 classic, “Everybody Loves the Sunshine”.

7/3 W3D1: Power of Art and Design Part 1: Photography

12:00PM Meeting place: Bindlestiff Studio, 185 6th St, San Francisco, CA 94103. See Exhibition, Brown in the Sunshine by Erina Alejo and SoMapagmahal (30 min)

12:30 Lecture on Portraiture & Consent and alternative histories of SOMA through the lens of local photographers (Tony Remington, Chris Fujimoto, Rick Rocamora, Anth Bongco, Janet Delaney, Erina Alejo)(60 min)

1:30 Walk to Victoria Manalo Draves Park, 16 Sherman St, San Francisco, CA 94103 (10min)

1:40 Eat at VMD (20min)

2:00 Photography Workshop with SoMapagmahal Photography Mxntorship Program at VMD (40 min)

2:40 (closing)

Save Little Masantol. Photography by Erina Alejo, 2018.

ROSE at Clarion Alley with artist Megan Wilson and the many political messages behind each mural for the Clarion Alley Mural Projects

ROSE visualizes the site of Monster in the Mission (16th St. & Mission) and the community’s counter-proposal called, The Marvel with Poder

In Chan Kaajal’s community garden –

This garden was the previous site of Mission Creek. They have a unique collective gardening program where you can just visit on gardening hours and toil the soil. No more waitlists, just pure community gardening power.

Marilyn Duran of Poder with Rose at In Chan Kaajal Park in the Mission

**In Chan Kaajal Park, taking the Mayan expression meaning “small village.”** **PODER worked 17 years to build this park to empower and build community in the Mission. This new park is one of their crowing achievements.**

6/28: W2D2: Importance of neighborhood and community based planning (Land-use as central to SF Politics) (Case study: The MISSION)

11:30PM Meet at In Chan Kaajal Park, 3100 17th St. SF (between Folsom & Shotwell) http://eltecolote.org/content/en/news/long-awaited-community-park-now-open-to-public/
11:45PM Intro to Land use, SF Politics and the Mission

12:00PM (60 min) Welcome / Meet and Walking tour with Marilyn Duran of PODER and Plaza 16 and go to the Monster in the Mission site which the community proposes to turn into “The Marvel/ or Marvela”. https://www.podersf.org/member-profiles-marilyn-duran/ https://plaza16.org
1:00PM (30 min) Lunch at Taqueria El Buen Sabor, 699 Valencia St. SF (18th and Valencia)
1:30PM (45 min) meet Megan Wilson of Clarion Alley Mural Project and go to Clarion Alley https://clarionalleymuralproject.org
2:10PM Closing

The Plaza 16 Coalation rejected the 1979 Mission Street at the 16th and Mission BART plaza proposal of Maximus Real Estate Partners and came up with a new proposal called “THE MARVEL”

Work of artist Megan Wilson at Clarion Alley Mural Art Projects titled, “End Apartheid B.D.S.” about The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law.

6/26: W2D1: Capitalism

12:00PM Welcome/Check in question (5 min)
12:05 Ice breaker (20 min)
12:05 Wage Exploitation exercise (40 min)
12:45 PM Educational (60 min) – Movie screening (clips)
- Intro to Capitalism? (5 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0GFSUu5UzA
- Capitalism a Love Story (51 min) CUT TO 45 MIN http://watchdocumentaries.com/capitalism-a-love-story/
Energizer (5 min) – stretch
1:30 PM Activity/Exercise (15 min) – Discussion questions
1:45PM Lunch (20 min)
2:05PM Energizer (5 min)
2:10PM Activity/exercise (15 min)
2:35PM Closing/Cleanup (15 min)