photography

2023 De Young Open

| Ana Elisa Fuentes

Snaps from the 2023 #deYoungOpen artist preview from yesterday, Tuesday, September 26, 2023. Pictured above (top left) is my photograph, designated as number 20 in the exhibit, titled What it Says, a Covid-19 slice of life. Above my photograph is a beautiful quilt depicting the American Sign Language alphabet.

The exhibit is five or six rooms of impressive art forms that will awe you and instill pride in the richness of expression, humanity, and creativity. Just so impressive! I am honored to have my photograph included.

Community open day is this Saturday, September 30, 2023. There will be live music, pop-up food trucks, and film screenings. Mark your calendar! For more information please visit here and https://deyoungopen2023.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery 

CAPTIONS (top, left to right) Participating artists only day! Overall view images of artists enjoying each others work, milling about. A colorful rainbow entry greets all entering The deYoung museum.

Vertical image: Alberto, intake curator gives me a smile and notes that my photograph is officially in his hands and catalogued as part of the 2023 deYoung Museum Open. I smiled right back. My photograph titled What it Says, a Covid19 slice-of-life was taken while walking on Market Street, during a shopping trip for essentials during the shelter-in-place order.

Next series are images viewed through the gallery app. Enter the image number in the search field to obtain the artist name, title, artist statement and description.

Images 052 and 053: The top image, number 52, Untitled: from the series of Racial Portraits by Mark I. Chester and below image number 53 titled: Happy: A Marin Homeless Encampment by David Santschi.

Image 793: Photograph titled Ghosts from the Past, by Yunfei Ren, selected for the 2023 deYoung Museum Open.

What It says Redux

| Ana Elisa Fuentes

Mark your calendars for a day celebrating community artistic expression at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park on September 30.  All Bay Area residents enter free. I’m so very happy to have my slice-of-life photograph, titled What it Says, wild art in the time of covid, included in the 2023 de Young Museum Open Call. The photograph taken  downtown on Market Street celebrates 50 years of Hip-Hop music and heralds San Francisco as a birthplace of music and musicians who have long called the city by the bay their home. The exhibition runs from 30 September till 7 January, 2024. Hope to see you there. 

women’s rights are human rights

Image | | Ana Elisa Fuentes

Thousands gathered in civic engagement to vocalize opposition to the current Supreme Court decision to Roe. v. Wade in San Francisco, on Friday, June 24, 2022. Here, citizens, carrying a bright green sign chant, "rise up for abortion rights; abortion rights, rise up, rise up."
Thousands gathered in civic engagement to vocalize opposition to the current Supreme Court decision to Roe. v. Wade in San Francisco, on Friday, June 24, 2022. Here, citizens hold bright magenta signs from Planned Parenthood which read, "Together We Fight For All"
Thousands gathered in civic engagement to vocalize opposition to the current Supreme Court decision to Roe. v. Wade in San Francisco, on Friday, June 24, 2022. Here, citizens raise bright yellow signs from Amnesty International which read, "Abortion is a Human Right."

Thousands gathered at City Hall and at different points throughout the city of San Francisco in direct response to the current decision by the Supreme Court to overturn the fifty-year precedent known as Roe v. Wade.

If you need assistance, the The National Abortion Federation can help you find a provider in another state, arrange travel, and pay for your care: 1-800-772-9100. Follow them on twitter

Stay up-to-date at Reproductive Rights dot gov

Close the wealth Gap, Keep SIPS OPEN

| Ana Elisa Fuentes

Today was my first day out in public, among others, among other citizens since the onset of Covid.

I was reminded how much I missed being around community, their pets, and signs, smiling and welcoming each other.

It was such a beautiful day to be protesting threatening conditions that may force more people back on the street in the glaring face of a virus with Greek Alpahbet attached.

The federal funding is here. The will of the people have spoken: Keep the Shelter-in-Place hotels open.

Save lives.

Empty Streets

| Ana Elisa Fuentes
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I never thought I’d see this, so I had to get out and see it with my own eyes, and, I had to get some food.

Empty streets, 15 minutes before noon, on Tuesday March 17th, 2020, downtown San Francisco. This was the first full day of the shelter in place order, issued by San Francisco Mayor London Breed. The order will remain in effect until April 7th, 2020. However, just a few days later  California Governor Newsom  issued an Executive Order, calling on all Californians, all 4o million of us, to shelter in place until further notice.

The Governor is quoted as saying:

We have the capacity to meet this moment — but only if we change our behaviors. We don’t want to look back with regrets — not when the data points to where this could be headed. Let’s bend the curve TOGETHER.

For more information and updates please visit the California Coronavirus (Covid-19) Response website.

If you are interested in the purchase and/or licensing of this image, please contact Alamy-Stockimo.

Thank you.

Winter Sun, Lilting Trees

| Ana Elisa Fuentes

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Winter, sun

lilting trees

from my series: View from My Train Window

this segment photographed at dawn, sunrise, somewhere along the San Joaquin Valley, California.

©anaelisafuentes/anaelisafoto

Throwback Thursday

| Ana Elisa Fuentes
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Who says California doesn’t have culture?

Oh, heart be still. Nostalgia is in the air … It’s a blast from the past.. Is it a surfin’ safari that’s gone awry? No it’s a 1961 Mercury Meteor station wagon an, automobile manufactured in the United Stated and named for the Mercury space race from a mirrored era gone by.

This surfin’ safari machine, on a warm autumn day, parked under still Acacia trees depicts an era, stood still in time, hopefully an era that hasn’t left us?

An era of civility, peace, and goodness among neighbors.

Oh, heart be still.

Art Walk,Wild Art

| Ana Elisa Fuentes

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Wild Art is a newspaper term that refers to found images that are unplanned, or unscheduled; a branch of street photography you might say. On this occasion I was on a walk with a friend, and noticed our shadows on the sidewalk.. Et Voilà, there you go, here we are!