Medium Festival Community Pop-Up

Oriana Poindexter

Oriana Poindexter is a photographer and marine scientist. Her work opens dialogues about our relationship with the changing biodiversity of the ocean using traditional and alternative photo processes. She will be selling original cyanotype and lumen pieces, as well as limited edition prints and other merchandise created by the artist.

Website: https://www.orianapoindexter.com/

Instagram: @opoindex

richard richard richards

San Diego native richard richard richards, is a visual artist, writer, and recovering comedian who primarily works in the medium of photography. richard considers his camera as an extension of himself and uses it much like a Quija Board letting it help guide him to a place where intuition, chance, and preparedness meet. As such, his work covers a wide gamut of topics from the most lighthearted visual one liners and “ordinary magic” (which he describes as seemingly other-worldly observations in everyday life), to more serious deep dives into subjects like injustice and racial tension, and everything in between. They will be selling limited edition prints; postcards; and my NEW book, ric pics Vol 1: Loosey Goosey!

Website: www.ricpics.me

Instagram: @ricpics.me

Erick Ramirez Manriquez

Erick Ramirez Manriquez, a Ph.D. student specializing in Sociology of race and ethnicity, utilizes his photography as a means of profound self-exploration, delving into the intricacies of his transnational migration journey. Through his lens, he captures the nostalgic connections to his homeland, portraying its vibrant culture and people amidst the backdrop of migration to the United States. Additionally, his landscapes symbolize the opportunities afforded by this journey, offering fresh perspectives and socio-economic benefits.

At his exhibition table, attendees can anticipate encountering a diverse array of framed photographs meticulously printed on archival paper. Each image is presented with creative framing techniques, featuring handcrafted mats and repurposed frames. The selection of photographs showcases a wide range of subjects, from captivating landscapes to intimate portraits, providing viewers with a rich visual tapestry that invites them to explore different facets of Erick's artistic vision and personal journey. The careful attention to detail in the presentation enhances the overall viewing experience, allowing visitors to engage deeply with each photograph and appreciate the craftsmanship behind the artwork.

Instagram: @elnopalsinfronteras

C Fodoreanu

C Fodoreanu was born into a family with a long tradition of icon painting in Transylvania, Romania. He started painting before inherently transitioning to different mediums and modalities to create his art, from creative writing, photography and collages, to videos, installations and sculptures. His work pursues a poetry of light, and explores the human body as a metaphor for how humans relate to the surrounding nature and each other, faith, mythology, play, love, intimacy, memory, fleetingness of time, and the fragility of life. C Fodoreanu holds a BA in Philosophy from UC San Diego, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and a Master of Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in New York. As a physician who studied philosophy and art, he developed an intimate knowledge of the human anatomy and psyche, and a keen psycho-social acumen. This affords him a unique position as an artist to relate, transcend, and personalize his understandings of humans and human nature into layered visual works. He is the author of three poetry books (Romanian), a photography monograph (English), and his visual work belongs to private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

At their table, they will have a book signing and book sale of "Ode to the Lake Sacalaia". Limited edition copies of this book and associated merchandise including T-shirts, hoodies, and small prints will be available for sale at a discounted festival price. This first monograph by interdisciplinary artist and physician C Fodoreanu is a book of deeply personal photographs and writings, depicting images of water and people taken at Lake Sacalaia, a mysterious lake in Transylvania where underwater demons protect its secrets, exploring the tension of self-discovery and identity, queer or not, and the in-between states of one's self-awareness, paying homage to younger selves searching for faith and ideals, reconnecting to what holds one true to oneself, towards making sense of the loss of potential that he witnesses in his pediatrics practice. This gorgeous book uses a haptic approach to represent the changing depths and pressure of water and self-examination, progressively moving toward thinner paper for each of the three sections of the book. The cover has three die cuts which trace the depth of the water from the lake’s topographic lines. The fifty-two images contained in the book are reproduced as tritones with the middle color section printed with a blue ink, and are bound via sewn otabind with square spine, dust jacket and flaps, sure to please the most formidable art book collector.

Website: https://cfodoreanu.com

Instagram: @cfodoreanu

Hiroshi Watanabe

Hirohi Watanabe graduated from Department of Photography, College of Art, at Nihon University in Japan. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation and became involved in the production of TV commercials. He later established his own production company. He received an MBA degree from UCLA Business School in 1993. In 1995 his passion for photography rekindled, and since then he traveled worldwide extensively, photographing what he finds intriguing at that moment and place. His works have been published and exhibited globally in numerous galleries and collected by many museums such as Philadelphia Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, George Eastman House, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, San Jose Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, LACMA, Cleveland Museum of Art.

I am a fine art photographer and I offer prints and books for you to have and enjoy. I am looking forward to honest and frank conversations with you.

Website: www.hiroshiwatanabe.com

Instagram: @hiroshiwatanabe_photography

Jayme Meza

My name is Jayme and I am a San Diego born and raised photographer. I have always loved many forms of art and while studying documentary filmmaking in college I found my love for film photography.

I will be presenting my photo book, La Luz Del Dia. My photo book is a collection of photos from a trip to Mexico City in August 2019. My sister took me on this trip so we could connect more with our own culture and explore a beautiful place. The title, La Luz Del Día, came from just how beautiful Mexico City is and how during a sunny day, the city just seems to glow.

Website: https://jaymefilms.my.canva.site/jaymefilms

Instagram: @theadventuresofjayme

(w)hole

Founded in 2023, (w)hole is a small independent photobook publisher based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in small edition publications from artists working in the expanded fields of photography. Our press imagines new contexts for the photo book while nodding to California's unique legacy of conceptual photography. Our designs follow the logic of each publishing project and take on unusual forms, such as a geological survey portfolio or a user's manual. The photography we highlight elaborates on the structures of cinema and performance while creating the immersive quality of a short story or novel. Available books include Seth Lower's 2023 release Dandelion and Brice Bischoff's 2023 release How Close.

Website: https://w-holebooks.com

Instagram: @w_holebooks

The Photographer's Eye Collective

The Photographer’s Eye was created with this ideal in mind. We wish to enhance the understanding of photography as an art as well as a tool for personal growth, and as a universal language. Our exhibitions are diverse and representative of the myriad ways photography impacts society. From our inception we have encouraged teaching and learning about photography. Our non-profit mission is to further grow photography education through providing scholarships for college and high school photography students and free classes for children, seniors and those at risk. Our commitment is to the community of photographers and non-photographers alike.  Led by our passion for the photographic arts, we hope to inspire, share knowledge, and become a cultural leader through partnering with those who appreciate this same enthusiasm for our mission.

As a photography gallery space, we will have photographs available at various price points. We will have new photography books as well as used ones. Additionally, we will offer photography-related pins and greeting cards. Information about our rental darkroom and darkroom classes will be available. Moreover, details about our many gallery-based workshops such as photogravure, kallitype, matting, framing, and more will be provided. We will also share information about our on-location workshops to Carmel/Monterey, the Eastern Sierra, and Death Valley. Furthermore, there will be a daily drawing for a fine print while we are at Medium. There's plenty of good stuff at our table!

Website: https://www.thephotographerseyecollective.com/

Instagram: @thephotographerseyecollective

Jason Reimer

Jason Paul Reimer is an internationally exhibited artist and educator living and working in southern California. They will have copies of my book Excavation: A Journey Through Loss available for sale, along with some rare darkroom prints from my archive, and affordable inkjet print editions of some of their watercolor paintings.

Website: www.jasonpaulreimer.com

Instagram: @jayreimer

R. J. Kern

R. J. Kern (b. 1978) is an American artist whose work investigates ideas of home, ancestry, and a sense of place. His portraits focus on intimate, interdependent relationships of people, animals, and landscape. Accolades include Critical Mass Top 50 (2018, 2021), CENTER 2017 Choice Award Winner (Curator’s Choice, First Place), and six grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Monographs include "The Sheep and the Goats" (Kehrer Verlag, 2017) and "The Unchosen Ones" (MW Editions, 2021) and publications include a feature in National Geographic (November 2017). Public collections include Minneapolis Institute of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He thrives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work is represented by Veronique Wantz Gallery and Olson-Larsen Galleries.

R. J. will have a selection of limited-edition prints available to view and acquire, including monographs and special editions of "The Sheep and the Goats" (Kehrer Verlag, 2017), "The Best of the Best” featuring salt prints and salt-print pop-ups (self-published, 2019), and "The Unchosen Ones" (MW Editions, 2021) and the Deluxe Edition Portfolio which includes 12 photographs and video interviews from "The Unchosen Ones: Portraits of an American Pastoral," which operates as an exhibition and educational tool, designed specifically for university art museums and collections. Kern’s work is currently on exhibition at Veronique Wantz Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) through April 13. The Blanden Museum of Art (Fort Dodge, IA) will feature his touring exhibition, "The Unchosen Ones," May 4 - July 20, 2024.

Website: www.rjkern.com

Instagram: @kernphoto

Mohan Bhasker

Mohan Bhasker is primarily an analog film photographer. He shoots with medium and large format cameras. He processes his own black & white and color film. He hand-crafts both Silver Gelatin and Platinum Palladium darkroom prints. Both are Darkroom Processes that date back to the beginning of Photography.

In the Pop-Up I will be selling Silver Gelatin, Platinum Palladium, and fine art color prints from all Seven Continents.  I will also be selling my 1st Edition "Seven Continents" Landscape Photography Book-Limited Edition.  Also, I will be selling my 2nd edition "Seven Continent's Landscape photography book.  

Website: https://mohanbhaskerphotography.com/