In 2014, the San Jose Mercury News published a five-part investigative series on the proliferation of antipsychotic drug use in California’s foster home system.

For Sam Wolson, documentary storytelling is anything but predictable.

Sam Wolson’s long-form photo essay is a portrait of one man navigating the ups and downs of life on the streets of Oakland.

"I think that we're going through the end of something."

Sergio De La Torre exposes the sites of state sanctioned trauma.

We ask what drives her commitment to SoMa—the hardscrabble neighborhood-turned epicenter of the city's tech boom.

Janet Delaney has been making photographs in SF's South of Market district for over thirty years.

The head of San Francisco's Public Defender's Office weighs in on his city's growing pains.

"I think you can't simplify people into one thing. Not everybody's bad."

Laura Morton reframes the "techie."

What's wrong with the Common Core? A photographer discusses his approach to visualizing the academic policy.

Silicon Valley is a proving ground for education reform.

"I’ve learned more than I can teach."

“If you had the ear of the youth, what guidance would you give them?” Pendarvis Harshaw delivers the wisdom of his elders to a connected generation.

The photographer opens up about outsider politics and finding beauty on the fringes of his adopted home town.

Paccarik Orue traces San Francisco's socioeconomic periphery in search of beauty, and strength.

"The project illuminates the position of barbers as conduits of black communities; of Oakland."

Oakland documentary artist Brandon Tauszik uses GIF animations to chronicle the intimate confines and characters of a Bay Area cultural sanctuary.

The young filmmaker-photographer speaks on emotional integrity and her impulse to witness.

Lily Chen was a graduate student when the Occupy movement hit the Bay Area. Assigned to photograph the ongoing protest efforts by her professor, Chen soon found herself embroiled in the passion and idealism of her youthful subjects.

Talia Herman photographs her friends and family living on the Bay Area's rural fringe. We talked with her about celebrating the intimate and mundane in West County.

Nostalgic visions of hippies, free love and living off the land dominate the agreed-upon narrative of Northern California. But as Talia Herman can attest, we’re a long way from the commune utopias the Bay Area fostered in the 1960s.

The Bay Area is not a region, it’s a universe.

Elizabeth Lo is a nonfiction filmmaker living in Los Angeles. We talked with her about her groundbreaking short, Hotel 22.

Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless.

Statistics on lost homes and lost dollars are relatively easy to track. The emotional toll on those who lost their homes is not as well documented.

With over 1.2 million foreclosed homes between 2008 and 2012, California lead the nation in foreclosures. Yet we know little about the fate of those who lost their homes.

Kosovo: land of blackbirds, and the memory of death. Memory, above all. And yet this is the center not only of the most innocent and profound Christian spirituality in the Balkans, but also of the most sublime and little known Muslim mysticism.

This is a story that paints a frank and troubling humanitarian portrait of the effects of war, and the many kinds of people who get swept up in its path. More than three years after the start of the Syrian war, the country's second-largest city, Aleppo, is nearly a ghost town. Whole swaths of the city are abandoned and lie in ruin. The civilians who remain in the city live a life of fear and grief as their families, friends, and neighbors are killed and wounded by President Bashar al-Assad’s indiscriminate campaign to regain control of the city.

Pavel Lebedev is 23 years old. He is wearing an orange shirt and an insecure smile. I met Pavel the previous day when he told me how he made the tough decision to come out of the closet. And he told me about the price he had to pay for following his heart. Now, he was being yelled at once again.