California Documentary Project
Stories of the City
Sixth Street Photography Workshop
San Francisco
Project Director: Tom Ferentz
The Sixth Street Photography Workshop has offered free photography classes to residents of hotels and homeless shelters in San Francisco for more than 10 years. Stories of the City is an exhibit of photographs, taken by some of the workshop's students, of people living in some of San Francisco's single-room occupancy hotels. The photographs will be accompanied by text excerpted from oral history interviews with the subjects. The aim of the exhibit is to provide viewers with insight into the lives of people who live in these hotels, said Project Director Tom Ferentz, who has been artistic director of the Workshop since its inception. The exhibit will take place in 2005 at San Francisco City Hall.