Featured image: Noor at the Yuba

Distance Between

The challenges of being close to something only in a memory. The internal struggle to connect while feeling there is distance. This is a series of photos that signify time as distance. The self discovery of desires for intimacy and closeness that fall in the past, but are showing up in the present in a way that has curiosity, but hesitancy to move forward. Exploring new spaces outward and inward as a trial to find self.

Distance Between is a reconnecting with the world around us in a slow matter through nostalgia and intuition. Knowing that questions arise with unsureness; breaking the cycle of comfort, but at the same time, wanting closeness. Here lies a sensitivity of being seen behind the camera and wondering what lands. The work speaks on a transitory time of identity that adds nuance to documentary-style approach in objects, scenes, and fragments of people to reconfigure what closeness is.

Rich Lomibao’s exhibition is on view from June 9 – August 27, 2023

Rich Lomibao is a Filipinx Bay Area based photographer with a background in documentary photography and filmmaking. Born in San Diego and now living in Oakland, their practice centers the communities and people that season the creative and musical scenes of the Bay Area and beyond. Lomibao creates intimate moments and emotions with their vision of every day life. They see depth in the mundane and places unrealized through their own self discovery.

To learn more about Rich’s work please follow on Instagram: @Rich.lomi

Small case

Noor at the Yuba
Giclee print
30” x 20” (unframed)
2018
$1,100

Large case

Will in their bedroom
Giclee print
24” x 16” (unframed)
2023
NFS

Green desk lamp
Giclee print
24” x 16” (unframed)
2023
$600

Dahlia’s in the city
Giclee print
20” x 30” (unframed)
2021
$1,100

Peekaboo silhouette 
Giclee print
18” x 12” (unframed)
2023
$500

The Ramp Gallery is an artist-driven exhibition space at SOMArts that is currently accepting applications for four-week long solo and group shows. An opportunity for entrepreneurial artists to ramp up their careers by exhibiting at one of San Francisco’s most dynamic hubs for art and community, the high-visibility location of The Ramp Gallery is adjacent to the main entrance of SOMArts and open to all local artists in the Bay Area. To learn more about the space please visit, The Ramp Gallery.