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Photographer + Cinematographer Oakland | LA 📍 co-founder @camerasandcoffeeclub + @oak.spc Advisory Board @eastbayphotocollective
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I’ve been feeling extremely aligned with my craft lately. I sincerely appreciate all of the support and validation that I’ve been receiving from my friends, peers, and followers. For a moment I was distracted by a destination, but lately I’ve been feeling myself fall in love with the process.
Special thank you to @uchoseup for supporting this detour. As well as @cuhznana for sharing your time and energy. Please give my love and gratitude to the brother who’s name I did not catch. This was a magical moment. 5 mins, until forever ✨
As always thank you to Jesse and the great folks over at @underdogfilmlab
20 Jan 2022
I’ve been working on this project for more than a year and i’m excited to share it with you.
The "legacy archive" is a series of black and white film photographs.
Since March 2023 I've had an intense and persistent focus on a 4 by 8 square-block zone in Downtown Oakland, California. My intention is to connect with community, offer restorative energy and reflect the beauty of the city I've called home for the past 17 years. My work is a collection of all of the moments that inspired me to action. It’s An open love letter to the people that occupy these streets, sidewalks and buildings.
A few works from this project will be on exhibit during the “NOTICE” group photography show + zine release in collaboration with @oak.spc & @eastbayphotocollective opening Friday, May 3, 6pm-9pm.
DJ set: @ovrkast
Oakland Photo Workshop
312 8th St. Oakland, CA
Also featured in “Photoworks Guest” magazine. Launch party is May 2, 6-8pm
Photoworks SF
2279 Market St. San Francisco, CA
@photoworkssf
30 Apr 2024
Letting go has been a persistent challenge in my life, even with the understanding that holding on can cause harm and restrict growth. Still, I often find myself clinging to past moments, hoping to extend their feelings beyond their time, as if life were meant to exist in suspended animation, unchanged and without evolution.
One of the reasons I’m deeply grateful for my photographic practice is the opportunity it offers to return to my muses after time has passed, to photograph them again after they have lived more of life. That distance reveals subtle shifts and quiet evolutions, a change in hair, in aesthetic, in demeanor.
In witnessing these transformations, I’m reminded that along the way we all must let go of someone or something in order to grow.
talent: @its.petty
dev: @underdogfilmlab
05 Jan 2026
After eight months, countless phone calls, and many late nights, Essi Westerman (@essiwesterman) and I are excited to welcome you to Street Stories: Oakland in Focus, a group photography exhibit featuring the work of 42 incredible photographers.
We’ve poured a lot into bringing this project to life and we’re looking forward to sharing space with you at the opening reception.
Location: 464 9th Street Oakland, CA 94611
Time: 5-8pm
Sounds by: NOSEI SUN ROOM (@andrewkodama)
✍🏽: @ogpenn
photographers mentioned in the article:
@lonely_girl_in_a_cold_world, @gateway.cookies, @sabrinashireen, @hmtwnhero, @ronadsf, @korisuzukiphoto, @filmhowyalike
Sponsors:
@camerasandcoffeeclub, @oak.spc, @underdogfilmlab, @oaklandish, @vsco
11 Jul 2025
Four seasons mark each year, and with every lap around the sun, growth follows. In 2017, I fell in love with portraiture, and my subject was @tomiikkoo. Eight years of collaboration—constantly evolving. @tomiikkoo, a brilliant dancer and luminous spirit, has been my muse for many moons. I’m deeply grateful to share these moments with you, my friend. Thank you for your willingness to share space and vulnerability.
31 Mar 2025
@pablocirca and I interviewed Street Spirit vendors in Berkeley and Oakland for @streetspiritnews 30th anniversary in March. Thank you @buhbrad for the opportunity!
We spoke to them about their lives, varied journeys, and the value of street newspapers.
For some vendors, the value is in routine — becoming a familiar, reliable face in the neighborhood and noticing the patterns, ebbs, and flows of a city. For others, it’s an engaging and honest way to make a living and access resources that make the logistics of life easier, like transportation, meals, and appointment-making.
Please check out the full article and anniversary issue online, and scroll to the last slide for the March print cover, "FreeFreePalestine" by Roger Peet. đź“°
17 Mar 2025
grateful for another trip around the sun 💫 it’s been such a reflective year! so many lessons, blessings, discoveries, and milestones sprinkled throughout 4 seasons.
HUGE thank you to my confidantes, collaborators and my partner for seeing me through the last twelve months and the depths of this expansive ocean we call life. my words could never fully express the joy & sorrow of this existence. the journey continues 🌀
sharing these photos of being seen and occasionally seeing myself 🌱
thank you, @daghe @tareweezy @ruffdraft @phattyma @lara_kaur @soup_.y @thapicturetaker for making these moments 📸
03 Dec 2024
What could reparations look like in East Oakland?
“I don’t think handing us a check of money will work. [...] They should take the Coliseum site and build housing, beer gardens. Keep the Coliseum for venues like concerts, grocery stores, all of that stuff,” says @brookfieldduece, and Oakland creative.
Follow @kqedarts to get notified when the next episode of “Deep Down” goes live.
Video Producer, Director, Writer, Editor: @oliviacruzmayeda
Executive Producer: Otis R. Taylor Jr.
Cinematographer: James Gebilaguin
Film Photographer: @pablocirca
08 Oct 2024
Thank you to @pablocirca for capturing the legacy of Black Folk in Oakland, CA. Thank you for capturing our life and beauty. Full interview out now. Link in biođź’«
You can find Legacy Archive here: https://www.pablocirca.com
04 Oct 2024
“On Love” (Khalil Gibran)
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.

He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.
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i’m working in opposition to the erasure of Blackness… i am building upon the work of those that came before me. my goal is to inspire someone to continue this work after after i’m gone. we must tell our story.
we are here in Oakland, CA, September 30th, 2024.
black population ~ 21% (census 2020)
#legacyarchive
30 Sep 2024
emancipation proclamation, 1863
following the civil war blacks owned 16 million acres of land (1910). by 1997 black people owned 1.6 million acres. 90% of black owned land had been lost or stolen. amounting to a 326 billion dollar loss in wealth.
black families make up 14% of the US population and own 5% of the countries wealth.
white families make up 65% of the US population and own 80% of the countries wealth.
#legacyarchive
23 Sep 2024
In May of this year I had the opportunity to shoot bts on a short film with my brother @ruffdraft for Leica. The Artistry in Simplicity is a short film staring Dale Johnson @sfexceptionalism, Brandon, and Leicas M11-D for @leicacamerausa. I’ve been fortunate to work with many brilliant creatives throughout my journey. Brandon Ruffin and Alex Ajayi are at the top of that list. It was a true honor being a part of this beautiful project!
Director: Brandon Ruffin
@ruffdraft
Producer: Xavier Rernard Cunningham
@xavier.rernard
1st Assistant Director: Amina Muhammad
@aminahmuhamm
Exec Producer/talent: Dale Johnson
@sfexceptionalism
Camera Department
Director of Photography: Alex Ajayi
@aajayilli
Steady Cam Operator: Eddie Akaba
@steadieddie_
1st Assistant Camera: Kavin Chan
@nhenvk
B Camera Operator: Diana Rodriguez
@dianarennt
Electric Department
Grip and Lighting: Bolt Lighting and Grip
@boltlightingrental_inc
Key Grip: Tehan Davis
@the_tehan_
Best Boy Grip: Jamari Mitchell
@bodega_thor
Production Assistants (PA)
Production Assistant: Jazmayne Coleman
jazmayne.cm
Behind The Scenes (BTS) Team
BTS Photographer: Zac
@pablocirca
BTS Videographer: Reggie Ballesteros
@reggiebphoto
BTS Photographer: Rudi Cruz
@rudimarr
16 Sep 2024
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