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What is the Photo department?
What is the Photo department?
The Photo Department is responsible for the visual documentation of Berkeley B-Side’s coverage. It captures live events, artists, and creative projects through photography, helping bring the publication’s storytelling to life.
What do we do?
What do we do?
The department produces photo galleries, creative features, and visual coverage for events and editorial projects. It also reviews and approves photo content, supports photographers with feedback, and develops larger visual projects such as photo essays and spreads.
Why does the photo department matter at Berkeley B-Side?
Why does the photo department matter at Berkeley B-Side?
Photo plays a major role in how The B-Side documents the local and broader music scene through multimedia. Strong visual coverage expands the impact of our reporting and allows the publication to tell stories that go beyond text alone.
What does the photo department offer our members?
What does the photo department offer our members?
Through Photo, members build experience in concert photography, visual storytelling, editing, and creative direction. It gives photographers the chance to develop both technical skills and a distinctive artistic perspective within a collaborative music publication.
Who's Malick Sidibé (the guy who took the top-banner pics)?
Who's Malick Sidibé (the guy who took the top-banner pics)?
Malick Sidibé was a Malian photographer known for his iconic black-and-white images of youth culture, music, dance, and everyday life in post-independence Bamako. His photography captured a generation in motion, documenting joy, style, freedom, and social change with intimacy and energy.
His work matters because it shows how photography can preserve the feeling of a cultural moment while celebrating the people who create it.
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