Broken Meter

Zine Release Party and Gallery Show

Created by Adam Rozan

Thursday, December 9

7-Midnight

Broken Meter is a celebration of city life, a visual recording of the activity, movement, and energy of the urban environment. Broken Meter is not gentrification, trash removal, clean swept streets, and flower boxes, but rather the decay, the chipped, flaked, broken aesthetic of our culture. Broken meter is the misspelled sign, the street preacher, the converted U-Haul cardboard trucks, the old ladies and recycled cans and bottles, the graffiti tag, the covered up graffiti tagged, the re-tagging of the original piece, it is the funny face, the sad face, the busted, it is the unexpected, the hopeless, it is both beautiful, and sad, it is the Broken Meter.

“Vision Is a Dream” opens this Saturday, November 13, 2024 at Shooting Gallery and, is something you don’t want to miss out on.

This Saturday, November 13th, we have a great show that no one in SF will wanna miss. Dave Schubert is in the house! We are all really excited to have some of Dave’s famous photographs, along with some never seen before.

To get to know Dave a little better, check out this interview, and come to the show this Saturday from 7-11pm!

Cheers!

The photos you take seem to capture the rhythm and movement of every day life– sometimes the in between movements of that life. How many photos do you generally take before sifting them down to what we see here?

I can’t really say. The images here have been selected from photographs I have made over a many different years. In general, I make a photograph or two and move on.  For the most part I do not make exposure after exposure of the same subject. Unless I am trying to get something that keeps moving in and out of the frame, but this is not common.

What kind of photographic equipment do you use to realize your work?

I like to use 35mm film cameras. I use small point, shoot cameras, and range finder cameras.

Out of all the photos in this show, do you have a personal favorite? If so, which one/why?

I don’t really have a personal favorite. I like each photograph for a different reason. If I had to choose a favorite I would say the selection of small fiber base black and white images at the back of the gallery. All of these photographs were printed at home in a small cramped darkroom that has no ventilation.

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