Join us this evening for a special photography gallery opening showcase from 3 photographers: Brandon Frederick, Pam Perkins & Jimmy Pollock. They will be displaying some of the amazing photos that they have taken in our community and out in nature.

There will be snacks and live music for everyone to enjoy, as you peruse through and check out the amazing photography and artwork.

You don't want to miss this unique art gallery opening, provided by Temple Emanu-El congregants. The gallery will be open (7:30-9pm) for viewing after the Shabbat service (6:15pm - 7:15pm).

Please register below so we know how many to expect for the Gallery Opening!

Meet the photographers:

Branden Frederick makes photos in and around Santa Clara, California, where he lives with his spouse, offspring, and a big pile of cameras. When not making photos, he moonlights in IT management, enjoys bicycling at slow speeds, and reads a lot of hard sci-fi and soft fantasy. He was born in 1982 with a camera in his hand, and ever since has been exploring photography using an always-changing menagerie of gear and technique. His latest efforts can be seen on Flickr, where most every day he posts a new photo. If you see a big guy walking down the street using a strange-looking camera, there's a chance it's him.

Jimmy Pollock is a visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, working in the charged space between fashion photography, urban street scenes, and surrealist cinema. His imagery merges editorial seduction with documentary rawness, crafting visual narratives where the subject resists consumption and spectacle becomes a site of subversion. A fashion model poses in a rabbit costume, her stare both playful and unreadable. A ballerina seems suspended midair, caught between grace and flight. Children twist their faces into masks of mischief, defiance, delight. These incongruous images resist easy interpretation—they are moments constructed to unravel themselves, portraits shaped as riddles in gesture, costume, and pose. Rooted in performance and ambiguity, Pollock’s work explores identity as something fluid, performative, and resistant. Intimate but theatrical, suggestive but never submissive, each image becomes a site of tension: between viewer and viewed, subject and spectacle. His work has been featured in Wolf Magazine and Cigar Snob Magazine, and exhibited at Praxis Gallery, Art Ark Gallery, NuMu Gallery in Los Gatos, and other independent spaces.

Pam Perkins started with a point and shoot camera and an empty passport when she retired in 2003.  Since that time, she has graduated to full frame mirrorless cameras and traveled to 87 countries.  Pam calls herself a travel photographer. When people look at my photographs, Pam want them to be standing in her shoes, holding a camera and looking at the same people she saw.  Envision their world.  Focus on people’s faces, their posture and expressions. One of Pam's objectives as a photographer is to stir an emotion within you.  She want you to have an awareness and a reaction to the people whose lives and environments are different from ours. The ability to step out of her comfort zone has been a guiding principle of my photography for more than twenty years.  Once Pam began using a camera, her view of the world shifted. Her curiosity grew.  Her vision went beyond just seeing a beautiful landscape.  She saw a world that is much more about the human condition in its myriad complexities.  That’s when Pam knew she wanted to take photographs of people. Expressing sincere interest in the people she meets is her way to show respect, which is essential to establish trust.  Respect and trust are necessary elements for her photographs to show people’s humanity and give them a voice to tell their stories.