Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/05/2025 - 06/08/2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Museum of the San Ramon Valley
Categories
Montevideo: Skateboarding History in the San Ramon Valley, 20 Photographs by Jeff Heyman
A new exhibit of photographs by Jeff Heyman, an Orinda-based photographer, opens Wednesday, February 5, 2025, at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley in Danville.
Montevideo: Skateboarding History in the San Ramon Valley is an exhibit of rare skateboarding photographs from the summer of 1976. In these vivid black and white pictures, Heyman has captured a time capsule of local history and a nostalgic look back at a bygone era, one that was instrumental in the evolution of skateboarding as a worldwide sport.
Heyman, a student at San Ramon Valley High School in Danville (Class of ‘77), was a photographer for the school’s newspaper, The Wolf Print. He documented the skateboarding scene at Montevideo, a drainage ditch in San Ramon popular with skateboarders from across Northern California where much of modern skateboarding began. His photographs bring us a glimpse of this short-lived and largely forgotten time.
Heyman is an award-winning fine art photographer and photojournalist and has had work exhibited at the Lafayette Library, the Orinda Library, the Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda, and the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
Montevideo: Skateboarding History in the San Ramon Valley is on exhibit February 5 through June 8, 2025, at Museum of the San Ramon Valley, 205 Railroad Avenue, Danville, Calif. Museum hours are Tuesday-Friday 1-4pm, Saturday 10am-1pm, and Sunday 12-3pm. Tel. (925) 837-3750
You can see photographs of the exhibit and more at heymanfoto.smugmug.com. Follow Jeff on Instagram at @heymanfoto.
