Born in San Diego, California and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, David Potes has always been committed to the arts and photography. In 2001, after many years of producing small, limited edition zines, David, his brother Ray Potes and friend Stefan Simikich began publishing a quarterly black and white photography magazine called Hamburger Eyes. Focused primarily on documentary street photography, the magazine has enjoyed exponential success throughout the years and most recently has been published into a book by PowerHouse Books.
David's primary aesthetic is in documentary photography, focusing on people and landscapes. However, with his background in self-publishing, he strives to move within multiple genres of the medium. Now living and working in New York City, David has become involved in both the commercial and fine art photography community. As a freelance photographer, production coordinator and photography assistant in both fashion and product photography, he has had the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients as well as some of the top photographers in the city.
BORN
San Diego. July 29, 1977
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 "Totes Solo" Painted Bird Boutique, San Francisco
SELECTED GROUP EXHBITIONS
2008
Hamburger Eyes Powerhouse Book Release Photo Show, Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter, San Francisco
Hamburger Eyes Powerhouse Book Release Photo Show, Powerhouse Arena, DUMBO NYC
Hamburger Eyes Powerhouse Book Release Photo Show, Hope Gallery (Family & Teenage Teardrops) Los Angeles
Hamburger Eyes Powerhouse Book Release Photo Show, Space 1026, Philadelphia
2007 "Dear Dream Maker" Photo show with David Uzzardi, Norge Gallery NYC
2006
“Aqua Art Miami” Hamburger Eyes Group Show represented by Steven Wolf, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Florida
"The Odyssey" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Steven Wolf Fine Arts, 49 Geary, San Francisco
"Fecal Face: 125th Anniversary of the Internet" 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
"Photo SF" Hamburger Eyes Group Show represented by Steven Wolf. Fort Mason, San Francisco
"Framed" Anti-Social Gallery, Vancouver BC
"Conflated" Onsix Gallery, San Francisco
"Hamburger City" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Turntable Lab, Los Angeles
"Katch a Fire" 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
"Ethsix" AR Space Gallery, San Francisco
"No Format" Receiver Gallery, San Francisco
"Mistakes Is What Makes It" Arc Cafe, San Francisco
"RayKo Photo Center 2nd Annual Photography Invitational Exhibition" Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
"4 Adverbs" Theater Artaud, San Francisco
2005
"Tomorrow + Yesterday" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Airspace Workshop, Honolulu
"Bay Area Now 4" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
"Fecal Face 5 1/2 Year Anniversay" 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
"I'll Put My Trust In You" Onsix Gallery, San Francisco
"The Blackhole" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
2004
"The Thunderdome" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Cassius King Gallery, San Diego
"Hamburger Eyes Issue 007 Release Party & Photo Show" Hamburger Eyes Group Show. Needles + Pens, San Francisco
CURATED SHOWS
2006
"Mistake is What it Takes" Group photo show curated by Archie Mckay, Brook Dillon, David Potes.
Arc Cafe, San Francisco
AWARDS & HONORS
2005 Hamburger Eyes awarded ArtSFest Emerging Arts Award
LECTURES AND PANELS
2007
“Round Table Discussion with Eugene Richards, Michael Crouser, Sara Terry, and David Potes.” Presented by Aperture Magazine and Kodak held at SF Camerawork, San Francisco
San Francisco Academy of Art. Beginning photography class, instructor: Emilio Banuelos. Spring semester
2006
SF Camerworks Portfolio Review. Guest Portfolio Reviewer
San Francisco Academy of Art. Beginning photography class, instructor: Emilio Banuelos. Three classes in the fall semester
California College of the Arts. Photography class, instructor: Abner Nolan
2005 "Sight Unseen" Radio interview by Tania Ketenjian. Bay Area Now 4 photo interview joined with Ari Marcopolous and Yerba Buena Senior Curator Rene Guzman
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
ANP Quarterly Issue 10
Theme Magazine Issue 13
2007
SF Chronicle 46 hours supplement, Visual Arts section. “Feast for the Eyes”
Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter first gallery showing
2005
SF Bay Guardian cover story: Hamburger Eyes "Shock of the Now" by Kim Chun
SF Chronicle, Datebook cover story "Hamburger Eyes" by Annie Nakao
PUBLISHED WORKS
2008
Hamburger Eyes: Inside Burgerworld – Powerhouse Book Miss Rosen Edition
Juxtapose Magazine Issue 88: The Photography Issue Pg 86-87
2007 Mass Appeal Magazine
2006 Ethsix Magazine
2005 XLR8R Magazine
SF Bay Guardian
2004 Kitchen Sink Magazine
2001- Present Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine