Joey Scatena is a photographer splitting time between the Bay Area and Central Oregon. Here’s his artist statement:
I am an artist from San Francisco making photographic prints using analog processes. My work represents an effort to find surprise and amusement in the uncertainty of the world around me. I am most interested in pursuing these feelings through outside-the-box techniques such as long exposure, multiple exposure, light painting, and photochemical experimentation. Always seeking to stretch the capabilities of my equipment and push what is possible to document on camera, I create works with vibrant energy and subjects that exist in a world of their own. In doing so, I challenge popular notions of time and space and what it means to document a moment in a photo.
Ever since finding my passion for photography in a community college darkroom class, I have used my art to show others the life and inner color of my environment as I see it. With my most common interests of motion, light, and live music, I find plenty to explore. By putting the excitement of creating and exploring above everything, I bring playfulness to the worlds I create.
fyi this is more of a pre-2025 artist statement but I will have a new one up soon.
Exhibitions
2025 Fireworks, Calliopes, and Clowns, Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo show)
2025 Quit Your Day Job, The Faight Collective, San Francisco, CA
2025 Life Lines, Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 2023 Student Art Show, Pinckney Gallery, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR
Awards
Central Oregon Community College 2023 Student Art Show, 1st Place in Darkroom Photography
Education
San Francisco State University, B.A. in Studio Art/Art History, 2025 (coming soon)
Music Recommendations (why not)
Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2 by Grateful Dead (October ‘77)
Live at Ludlow Garage by Allman Brothers Band (April ‘70)
GarciaLive Volume 17: NorCal ‘76 by Jerry Garcia Band
Shoutouts
Shoutout to Kevin Chen, Sean McFarland, Trey Anastasio, and my brother Tony (the fastest 14-year-old in the state of Oregon)