Dot (Tom Schmidt)
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www.PhotoByDot.com
Awards
2012 Mike Ivanitsky Photography award runner up at Foothill College
6-2015 selected by Beautiful Magazine to be featured in their Sex 2015 exhibit with Guilty Pleasures (click here)
6-2015 finalist in 2015 Photo Contest by Next Magazine for contemporary gay life (click here)
Shows/Appearances
10-30-2011 solo show titled Theatrotica at the Eros Club in San Francisco
4-12-2012 solo show featuring works from Sons of God at SF LGBT Center
1-4-2013 solo show featuring work from The Classic Beauty of Male Escorts in San Francisco at Magnet SF
4-25-2015 Unicorn at the PowerHouse, featuring works from Guilty Pleasures
4-18-2015 Queericulum Queer Arts Festival at The Center SF, featuring works from Guilty Pleasures
4-15-2015 Collective Vision Group Show at Krause Center for Innovation (KCI) at Foothill College, featuring works from my Cured? series.
4-28-2015 Unicorn at the PowerHouse, featuring works from Truvada Whore
6-20-2015 ViewPoints Group Show at PhotoCentral Gallery, featuring works from Cured
8-1-2015 featured in gaypv magazine (click here)
11-13-2015 coverage of Cured? in Bay Area Reporter (click here)
12-2015 feature article in The Male Form Magazine Winter 2016 (click here)
1-2016 photos for spread on BeBe Sweetbriar in Gloss Magazine (click here)
1-2016 Unicorn at the PowerHouse, featuring works from Triptych Series
3-4-2016 March Forth group Portrait show in SF, featuring works from Triptych series (click here)
3-5-2016 leading Photography Workshop for Muse at GroundSwell
4-15-2016 photo spread of fitness model Gage for Gloss Magazine (click here)
6-25-2016 fashion spread featuring the fashion of Ben Copperwheat for Gay Pride 2016 edition of Gloss Magazine
7-2016 photos from Cured? featured on PBS News Hour series on End of AIDS (click here)
7-2016 photos from Temptation series featured on www.BeautifulMag.com (click here)
8-2016 photos from SuperFood series features on www.BeautifulMag.com (click here)
3-5-2017 leading workshop on Photography of the Queer Resistance at Muse:Revolution at the Groundswell Institute
3-2017 photos of model Romeo featured on www.TheMaleForm.net
5-2017 Dance Naked photos of male Dancers in May show at Art Saves Lives Gallery in San Francisco
5-2017 Photos of Bernadette Bohan featured in spread in Left Magazine (click here)
8-2017 Part of Creative Labor's Queer Open Studios (click here)
8-2017 Photographs for BeBe Sweetbriar's Unity feature in Gloss Magazine
10-2017 October Show at Art Saves Lives Gallery (also featuring 7 photographers from my workshops)
11-2017 Participated in ArtSpan Open Studios at the Box Factory in San Francisco
12-2-2017 photo show and sale at Unicorn at the PowerHouse in San Francisco
1-2018 photo spread in All That Glitters is Gold feature in Left Magazine
2-2018 nominated for Bay Area Reporter 2018 Bestie Award for Best Night Time Event Photographer
2-2018 cover photograph for GED (Gay Entertainment Directory) February 2018 (click here)
4-2018 photos featured in Beautiful Magazine (click here)
6-2018 photos of Chickpea (Brian Busta) featured in SF Travel (click here)
6-2018 photos of Chickpea (Brian Busta) featured in Left Magazine
6-2018 Photos of Strobe (Luis Canales) feature in Pozitively Aware (click here)
6-2018 photo spread from Sons of God series feature in Mascular Magazine Spring 2018 (click here)
12-2018 photos featured in gay cities online magazine (click here)
6-2019 Photos of Jaden featured in Pride Edition of Gloss Magazine (click here)
Publications
Work & Employment