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The west coast debut of Shimon Attie’s floating media installation Night Watch will take place September 17 – 19, 2021 along the shorelines of San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland, California. In conjunction with this event, PhotoAlliance presents a lecture and viewing party with Shimon Attie at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Shimon Attie is a multimedia artist, whose work comprises photographs, video and multimedia installations, new media and works on paper. Concerned with questions and themes surrounding memory, place, and identity, Attie’s early work reanimates the lost history of public spaces through site-specific projects, while his recent work continues to investigate the past alongside the important socio-political issues of our time.

Night Watch Schedule:

Friday, September 17: 
Fort Mason, Exploratorium, Under the Bay Bridge (San Francisco)

Saturday, September 18: 
Warm Water Cove (San Francisco)

Sunday, September 19: 
Brooklyn Basin (Oakland)

Please check the recommended view points below:

CatchLight local fellow Yesica Prado will open the evening with an introductory presentation about her work. Yesica Prado is a multimedia journalist who works with photography, video, audio, and long-form writing.. She is a first-generation Mexican immigrant from Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico. At the age of nine, Prado immigrated with her family to the United States. She was raised in Southside Chicago as an undocumented student. Before turning 21, Prado was granted a U-Visa and took advantage of her new opportunity, expanding her borders to seek a journalism degree.

Prado has a Master’s in Journalism from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prado focuses her reporting on issues that limit people's access to land such as poverty, immigration, homelessness, climate change, and indigenous communities. Prado’s photography has been published in the Los Angeles Times, HuffPost and KQED.