is a UC Berkeley graduate who was arrested at the Free Speech Movement in 1964. In the 1960s he was the editor of the SNCC-affiliated Movement newspaper. His master’s thesis at San Francisco State University in 1989 was about metal trade workers. He worked as a boilermaker, ship-fitter and welder for 25 years in Bay Area shops and shipyards. Since retiring, he has dedicated himself to documenting the lives and labor of workers with words and images. His photographs are in the Bancroft Library pictorial collection and have been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco State University gallery, library and labor archives, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and at the San Francisco SOMArts Cultural Center.
Collette Wylie and Joseph Blum, two California photographers, juxtapose key features of the state—its landscape and its laborers.