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In 2010, Bay Area artist Kirk Crippens was invited to photograph the neighborhood of Bayview-Hunters Point. He was initially an outsider circumambulating the community with his camera. If the photographs were going to authentically represent the people and the neighborhood, he needed to connect to the community in a more significant and personal way. In early 2011, Crippens walked into Providence Baptist Church, established in the neighborhood in the early 1940s. The congregation immediately welcomed him into the fold, making efforts to shake his hand and remember his name. The artist says, 鈥淎ttending services each week, the church became the foundation through which I learned about and connected with members of the community.鈥�

Crippens soon found himself describing his photography project to the pastor, and subsequently meetings were set up with pillars of the community who invited Crippens to photograph both themselves and their homes. The resulting images became a body of work entitled The Point, a photographic celebration of the community of Bayview-Hunters Point. Twenty-four images from Crippens鈥� photographic series The Point were exhibited at Rayko Photo Center in September and October 2014. For this upcoming exhibition at San Francisco City Hall, an additional dozen images from the series will be shown with the initial twenty-four, displayed alongside collections of family photographs gathered from members of the community who are featured in The Point.