SEE VEGAS AND DIE

SEE VEGAS AND DIE- A Photo Exhibition

Join us at Jettison Creative and experience the magic of a road trip from SF to Vegas, captured through the lens of our October Artist-in-Residence, Claire Maen, in collaboration with friend and French photographer Alexandre Martin.

Get ready to be transported through analog photography, film, text, and found objects of the raw, neon-lit streets, buzzing casinos, and the unforgettable characters they met along the way.

SEE VEGAS AND DIE is a visual journey through movement, memory, and Americana at its most surreal. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind exhibition. Mark your calendars and join us!

About the Artists:

Claire Maen is a French American film photographer living in the Bay Area, CA. She photographs the poetic beauty of suburban, industrial landscapes, and ordinary life on film with her Rolleiflex cameras. She creates a simple, beautiful, minimalist aesthetics in her images. She was among the Photolucida Critical Mass 2023 200 finalists whose work has been published in art magazines( F-Stop magazine, Analog Forever, Pamplemousse magazine, Trois Points Mag, The Curated Fridge, Dodho magazine, Artist Talk, Film Without Frontiers, Juniper Rag,GrainZilla etc.) and exhibited in galleries and art shows in California (De Young Museum Open, Center for Photographic Art, Gray loft Gallery, Studio Seven Arts,Jettison Creative etc.), in Oregon, Arizona, Minnesota, & Massachusetts. Claire is a member of the Livermore Art Association and the East Bay Photo Collective. In collaboration with the French photographer Alexandre Martin, she is the co-editor of a zine for Rolleiflex and medium format lovers called Rolleizine, and she has done a podcast on Rolleiflex called “Twin Lens”, available on Spotify.

Alexandre Martin

After modeling as a child and an adult for various brands (Dockers, Vivian Westwood, Printemps Paris etc.), I decided to get behind the camera and learn photography with fashion photographers. I developed a passion for street photography on film (Rolleiflex, Leica) and I am now teaching street photography via workshops and photowalks, in collaboration with the Leica store of Paris. I also learned to shoot and edit video, I set up a small production company called 3troisproduction, and became a photojournalist with the international agency Hans Lucas. I have recently been commissioned to photograph the public life of a small town called Collégien, and I am developing various series on Paris, New York, Brittany and, soon, the American West. My work has been published and exhibited. I am also the co-editor of a zine for medium-format enthusiasts called Rolleizine.

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