Two photographers, one room, and a lot of ideas.
Westeigh
Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Instigator
"I’m interested in arrangement, fragments, and the tension between softness and structure. My work is rooted in photography and observation, often paying attention to small details, partial views, repetition, surface, and the quiet traces people leave behind."
Westeigh is drawn to things that feel worn, layered, interrupted, or slightly unresolved. A shadow on a wall, faded color, torn paper, condensation on glass, fragments of landscape, stains, reflections, and repeated forms all appear throughout the work as ways of exploring emotion, memory, and perception. Her images often leave space for viewers to slow down and look longer.
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 was included in the de Young Open 2023 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council (AGAC), a curatorial support group connected to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and also served as Program Chair, helping develop programming focused on prints, photographs, and works on paper.
When not photographing, she is usually reading, collecting, or wandering thrift stores in search of overlooked books, objects and obscure cameras. Most days are spent somewhere between observation, research, experimentation, and the early stages of projects already beginning to overlap.
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.
Drawn to structure, systems, and problem-solving, he tends to approach ideas through execution and practicality. Interested in process as much as outcome, he is usually building, organizing, troubleshooting, or figuring out how to make things function.