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"The care and imagination put into the envelope of existence is a sign of the strength of a society's humming self-confidence." - Adam Gopnick

streams

streams

Explore the Oaktown portfolios below

at named places, spaces, or themes.

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THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT KASPER'S 

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ADELINE GRAFFITI PALACE

TREASURE ISLAND TEMPLE

ALAMEDA NAVAL AIR STATION

BLACK LIVES MATTER - THE STREET GALLERY

portfolio

portfolio

Rejecting the agenda of a relentlessly negative mainstream media, Oaktown surveys a habitually unembraced landscape as created and recreated by the town's people themselves. Its camera attends to the denied, the disappeared, the transformed, the ephemeral, the ambient, the subliminal, or the colloquial, which has always been on display.

All images (c) Malcolm E. Ryder               Full intro to the Portfolio: here > 

Architecture and Industrial Ruins

Streets and Walls

Shops and Homes

Land and Yards

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malcolm ryder

Photography, Curating, Writing, Organization Development

Malcolm Ryder is a photographer and writer based in Oakland, California. His career as a photographer started in 1972 at Princeton University, where, with no photography degree being offered, he created an independent major in visual studies. Ryder then built a photography business in New Jersey and New York City before becoming an arts funding program developer for the National Endowment for the Arts, the NY Foundation for the Arts, and the NY State Council on the Arts. In 1989 he moved to San Francisco and then Oakland, building a second career as a software executive and management consultant. Today he practices street photography with his Samsung Galaxy smartphones, roaming roads and corners of Oakland determined to capture a neglected essence of a mostly misunderstood city. He edits a magazine for alumni of the Westminster Schools in Atlanta and curates Oaktown.pictures, Artdotdot.com and PAX.institute. www.malcolmryder.com

PROFILED - click through to...

John Caldwell, New York Times: Photography and Sculpture in Newark

Bill Ivey, NEA: A Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists' Fellowship Program 

Constance Hale, Alta Journal: Malcolm Ryder Trains His Eye

PAX.institute, 185v76: Getting The Band Back Together Again

CREATED - 1972 through present

Princeton University: BA, Visual Arts Program Independent Concentration; Visual Studies / Photography, Cinema

National Endowment for the Arts: Designer, Manager; Visual Artists Fellowships Grants Jurying Process

NY Foundation for the Arts: Designer, Manager; Visual Artists Fellowships Grants Jurying Process

NY State Council on the Arts: IT Architect, Director; Arts Information Network and Information Exchange Standards

2AES / Center for Critical Architecture: Designer, Manager; Call for Vision, 1993 San Francisco Embarcadero Waterfront International Design Competition 

Oakland, CA: Ryder Foto (Inc.); ArtDotDot.COM

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