David Potes Photography

Since 2001, I have been involved with a black and white photography magazine called Hamburger Eyes. It focuses on documentary street photography and showcases the work of both emerging and established photographers. It is self published and put together by myself, my brother Ray Potes, and Stefan Simikich. The first four issues started out as a Xeroxed and saddle-stitched zine with an edition of 50. Since then it has grown and issues five thru eleven are now offset printed and perfect bound and distributed all over the world. Hamburger Eyes provides a platform for photographers to have their work published and also the opportunity to showcase their photography thru group gallery shows.

In 2007, Hamburger Eyes and ColorArts Photographics merged to become THE HAMBURGER EYES PHOTO EPICENTER, a public darkroom that also doubles as our own art gallery. Located in the heart of the Mission district of San Francisco.

Along this journey, I have met alot of different photographers and artists whom inspired me. And what I learned from all of them, is to keep doing what you do. If you send positive energy into the universe, you will recieve positive energy back. If there were any goal on this journey, it would be to hang my photos in museums around the world.

I was born and raised in Cardiff-by-the-sea in North County San Diego, but grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii were I spend every Christmas and New Year with my family. In the late summer of 2007, I moved to Brooklyn with my girlfriend Tati, whom was accepted in the grad program at Tisch for film production. Before that I was living in San Francisco for 6 years where I grew and developed with the supporting art community there.

SELECTED GROUP EXHBITIONS
2008
Hamburger Eyes Powerhouse Book Release Photo Show, Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter, San Francisco
Hamburger Eyes Powerhouse Book Release Photo Show, Powerhouse Arena, DUMBO NYC
Hamburger Eyes Powerhouse Book Release Photo Show, Hope Gallery (Family & Teenage Teardrops) Los Angeles
Hamburger Eyes Powerhouse Book Release Photo Show, Space 1026, Philadelphia

2006
“Aqua Art Miami” Hamburger Eyes Group Show represented by Steven Wolf, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Florida
"The Odyssey" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Steven Wolf Fine Arts, 49 Geary, San Francisco
"Fecal Face: 125th Anniversary of the Internet" 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
"Photo SF" Hamburger Eyes Group Show represented by Steven Wolf. Fort Mason, San Francisco
"Framed" Anti-Social Gallery, Vancouver BC
"Conflated" Onsix Gallery, San Francisco
"Hamburger City" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Turntable Lab, Los Angeles
"Katch a Fire" 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
"Ethsix" AR Space Gallery, San Francisco
"No Format" Receiver Gallery, San Francisco
"Mistakes Is What Makes It" Arc Cafe, San Francisco
"RayKo Photo Center 2nd Annual Photography Invitational Exhibition" Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
"4 Adverbs" Theater Artaud, San Francisco

2005
"Tomorrow + Yesterday" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Airspace Workshop, Honolulu
"Bay Area Now 4" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
"Fecal Face 5 1/2 Year Anniversay" 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
"I'll Put My Trust In You" Onsix Gallery, San Francisco
"The Blackhole" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco

2004
"The Thunderdome" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Cassius King Gallery, San Diego
"Hamburger Eyes Issue 007 Release Party & Photo Show" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Needles + Pens, San Francisco

CURATED SHOWS
2006
"Mistake is What it Takes" Group photo show curated by Archie Mckay, Brook Dillon, David Potes.
Arc Cafe, San Francisco

AWARDS & HONORS
2005 Hamburger Eyes awarded ArtSFest Emerging Arts Award

LECTURES AND PANELS
2007
“Round Table Discussion with Eugene Richards, Michael Crouser, Sara Terry, and David Potes.” Presented by Aperture Magazine and Kodak held at SF Camerawork, San Francisco
San Francisco Academy of Art. Beginning photography class, instructor: Emilio Banuelos. Spring semester
2006
SF Camerworks Portfolio Review. Guest Portfolio Reviewer
San Francisco Academy of Art. Beginning photography class, instructor: Emilio Banuelos. Three classes in the fall semester
California College of the Arts. Photography class, instructor: Abner Nolan
2005 "Sight Unseen" Radio interview by Tania Ketenjian. Bay Area Now 4 photo interview joined with Ari Marcopolous and Yerba Buena Senior Curator Rene Guzman

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Theme Magazine, Hamburger Eyes feature
2007
SF Chronicle 46 hours supplement, Visual Arts section. “Feast for the Eyes”
Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter first gallery showing
2005
SF Bay Guardian cover story: Hamburger Eyes "Shock of the Now" by Kim Chun
SF Chronicle, Datebook cover story "Hamburger Eyes" by Annie Nakao

PUBLISHED WORKS
2008 Hamburger Eyes: Inside Burgerworld – Powerhouse Book Miss Rosen Edition
2007 Mass Appeal Magazine
2006 Ethsix Magazine
2005 XLR8R Magazine
SF Bay Guardian
2004 Kitchen Sink Magazine
2001- Present Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine