Two photographers, one room, and a lot of ideas.
Westeigh
Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Instigator
"The most meaningful connections to art often begin with curiosity...a question, a memory, or a feeling that lingers long after we've left the room. "
Westeigh works across photography, works on paper, and mixed-media processes. Rooted in observation and personal archives, her practice explores memory, material, transformation, and the traces people leave behind. Drawing from family history, landscape, vernacular photographs, and everyday experience, she is interested in what is carried forward, altered, forgotten, or recovered over time.
Her background in molecular biology continues to shape the way she observes. She is attentive to patterns, subtle shifts, hidden structures, and the idea that small fragments can reveal something much larger than themselves.
Her work has been exhibited at the de Young Museum in San Francisco and in juried photography exhibitions throughout the Bay Area, and is held in private collections. She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council (AGAC), a curatorial support organization affiliated with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and as Program Chair, developing programs focused on prints, photographs, and works on paper.
Jeff
Co-Founder & CHIEF LOGISTICAL MAGICIAN
"The best conversations about photography don't happen at openings. They happen on a quiet Saturday when someone walks in, looks longer than they expected to, and suddenly wants to talk about what they're seeing."
Jeff is a San Francisco native and photographer whose classic training gives his work a storytelling quality that leaves room for the viewer to form their own narrative. He shoots film and digital, including medium format, and has never lost the darkroom instincts he learned early.
In high school, he studied under Ralph Rappaport, an associate of Ansel Adams, learning the Zone System and advanced darkroom techniques on trips to Yosemite, Carmel, and Point Lobos. Rappaport introduced him to Ruth Bernhard, who invited Jeff into her home for a private critique — a meeting with one of the most definitive photographers of the twentieth century that shaped his work from that point forward.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art Photography from San Francisco State University, where he studied under Don Worth, Jack Welpott, Catherine Wagner, and Melanie Walker. Before opening Frame 1A, Jeff served with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations in Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, Angola, and Rwanda. He's taught photography and led workshops throughout the Bay Area.
His work has been widely published and exhibited, and was selected for the de Young Open 2023 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.