Visuals 04.18.24

JOE RAMOS

There are still a few days to go and see Mixed Up  – Connected: Joe Ramos Photographs, until April 21, in the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey. Ramos, a San Francisco-based photographer with origins in Soledad, has dedicated over four decades to the art of photography. Trained at the San Francisco Art Institute under Richard Conrat, a close associate of Dorothea Lange, Ramos specializes in documentary photography, capturing profound images of people and places in the Salinas Valley and San Francisco’s Mission District. Ramos’ forte lies in portrait photography, evident in the depth and strength of his images – a testament to the mutual trust between the photographer and the subjects. Since 2006, he has significantly contributed to San Francisco’s Project Homeless Connect, capturing over 1,000 portraits. [AP]

ANDREA OREJARENA AND CALEB STEIN (artist duo)

The Center for Photographic Art in Carmel presents the work of its 2023 artist grant recipients, with new work by Chanell Stone and multimedia artist duo Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein. Their project, American Glitch, looks at the slip between fact and fiction and how this manifests in the U.S. landscape, which is the artists’ adopted home. “We spent years treating the internet as our collective subconscious, collecting posts on social media and reddit threads of people’s ‘evidence of glitches in real life,’” they wrote in an artistic statement. “These threads and images become a place for a new form of community and connection across time and space. We then photograph sites around the U.S. which remind us or people on the internet of real-life glitches.” The piece above is titled “Abe Lincoln in a Field.” [AP]