Heavy Water Collective Presents: Ocean Beach @ Harvey Milk Photo Center

Heavy Water Collective Presents: Ocean Beach brings together 25 photographers who turn their lenses toward the Pacific, finding pockets of magic amidst a vast liquid field of chaos. 

Some of these works play with the juxtaposition of ocean wilderness and concrete cityscapes, framing surfers speeding down powerful waves with electrical wiring and concrete in the foreground. Others ask you to forget the city and immerse in how light, energy, and human shapes can dance together. Each photograph displays a single permutation within an infinite, ever-changing landscape.

Co-curated by Heavy Water Collective and Katherine Akey 

Ocean Beach Heavy Water Collective

The Heavy Water Collective is a motley crew of photographers spellbound by San Francisco’s wild western edge. Many of us live locally and can be found tucked in the avenues and dunes with long lenses or masochistically churning through whitewash, swimming against relentless currents, and diving beneath apartment-wall-sized waves with hefty water housings. All of us are, in our own ways, attempting to capture the raw power and beauty of this elemental arcane environment.

Participants:

Adam Warmington
Alex Kleeman
Brock Bozzani
Christopher Gardiner
Cub Schoenborn
Devin Moren
Fiona Duerr
Gillian Stargensky
Hayden Childs
Iris Robert
Jack Bober
James Bartolozzi

JJ Harris
Lawrence Rickford
Liam O’Donnell
Mia Bolton
Miles Jackler
Nahla Achi
Nick Paz
Paul Ferraris
Sachi Cunningham
Sam Gill

Sue-Jean Sung
Tucker Wooding
Will Laine