Angela
Filo has chosen to turn her camera on the place where she
lives. Her images
explore the tremendous change Silicon Valley experienced
during and after the dot.com boom. Raised in Lawrence,
Kansas, Angela holds a bachelor's degree in human biology
from Stanford
University and a master's degree in journalism from UC
Berkeley. She teaches journalism and photography at Eastside
College Preparatory School in
East Palo Alto, California.
Work
from Angela's Silicon Valley series has been exhibited
extensively,
including
at San Francisco Camerawork and the James Nicholson Galley.
Her work is in the collection
of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and will
be exhibited
in the fall of 2006 at the San Jose Museum of Art in
a show and an accompanying book titled Suburban Escape:
The Art of California Sprawl. In 2005 Angela was a finalist
for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography. She has lectured
on
her
photographs at Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and
UC Berkeley.
Angela lives in Palo Alto and continues to photograph Silicon Valley,
currently focusing on an installation of 1,600 portraits of walnut and prune
trees
photographed at one of Silicon Valley's last remaining orchards.
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