Place as Memories and Feelings: A photographic Essay The Urban School of San Francisco

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Place as Memories and Feelings: Photographic Essay
The Urban School of San Francisco

Founded in 1966, The Urban School of San Francisco is an independent high school located in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco. All Urban School courses share a common pedagogical approach that incorporates the following principles: the expectation that students are active participants in their education; a commitment to cooperative learning and collaboration among students; an understanding and respect for the experiences and perspectives of various peoples, cultures, and races; and the use of the San Francisco Bay Area's environmental, cultural, and intellectual resources to extend learning beyond the classroom.

In the visual arts classes, students develop an individual aesthetic by a teaching philosophy that encourages depth in both ideas and content.

Class projects teach a range of technical skills as well as conceptual approaches, beginning with exercises on light and composition and ending with a final project that synthesizes these formal elements. This exhibition of photographs represents work by eleven Urban School photography students, who focused on their surroundings and community around the San Francisco Bay Area. Students selected the content and the appropriate photographic approach that best expressed their points of view.

The artwork on display reflects ideas about people and places that often go unnoticed: the shadows that occupy our homes, or people in our neighborhood. Place is not defined purely as a physical location, but can include memory or feelings from past events or experiences.

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