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  1. Children and adults pose before a yellow mural of clasped hands reading “Inspire Oakland,” with one person pointing up.

    The next generation has the wall.

    Two big hands grip across the brick, and small ones flash their peace signs below. Someone points up at what comes next. The children are looking at the future like it already knows their name.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oaklandmuralcommunitypublic artgroup portrait
  2. Three people pose in matching navy BRIDGEGOOD hoodies in front of a blue wall with a painted logo.

    We wear the work together.

    Hoods up, heads together, squeezed into one frame. Behind us a gold branch climbs the blue. You learn what a name is worth when you stitch it over your heart next to people who chose it too.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitcommunityOakland
  3. A person in a cap extends their arms beside vertical colored lights, casting overlapping shadows on a blue wall.

    Room for more than one self.

    One hand on the glowing edge, one reaching away. The wall keeps three of me: the sharp one, the faded one, the one still arriving. None of them is a mistake.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  4. Two men hold microphones onstage, one in a gold blazer, with projected group portraits behind them.

    The mic makes room for more.

    Gold jacket, black suit, two microphones, faces glowing on both screens behind them. The best thing a voice can do is hand itself to the next one.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    stageBRIDGEGOOD
  5. A group gathers around a person gesturing in a red jacket beside a blue-covered table in a crowded room.

    The circle makes room.

    Backpacks turn toward one voice, hands cutting the air like paper wings. A room full of strangers can become a circle in a minute if someone speaks like they mean it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    community
  6. A man speaks into a microphone at a wooden podium beside a projected basketball team photo with a trophy.

    A winning team fills the room.

    A championship glows ten feet tall on the wall. Beside it, one voice and a laptop. Even the greatest team started as people who stayed late and trusted the pass.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  7. Children and adults gather for a group portrait indoors, many wearing blue and white Local Warriors shirts.

    The next generation takes the floor.

    Shoulders overlap, a bonnet, a bright headband, warriors on every chest. The small ones are in front on purpose. We build so they can stand where we once looked up.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    communitygroup portraitBRIDGEGOOD
  8. A person sits cross-legged on a chair in a bright atrium with curved ramps and sunlight across white walls.

    Room for the next idea.

    So much white, so much waiting space, and one small chair in the middle of it. Empty rooms are not threats. They are the shape of what hasn't happened, and you are allowed to sit down in it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  9. Two smiling adults stand side by side with arms crossed beside a tall window in a wood-paneled room.

    Good company needs no introduction.

    Magenta and gray, arms crossed, grins the same size. Old wood and tall windows hold the afternoon. Trust looks like this: leaning on the same rail, nothing left to prove.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  10. Two people in yellow jackets and baseball caps pose together in a dim venue with a glowing bar.

    We came wearing the same sun.

    Dim floor, lamps low, and two coats the color of morning. You don't have to match the room. Bring your own sun and someone will stand in it with you.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  11. A boy holds a tablet at a classroom table as a smiling man makes bunny ears behind him, with others nearby.

    A little room to dream.

    His eyes are on the screen, wide and lit, and someone behind him makes bunny ears. Dreams grow in rooms like this, where an adult is silly enough to tell a kid it is safe to hope.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    community
  12. A group poses outside with three performers on stilts, several wearing BRIDGEGOOD shirts and holding a matching sign.

    The next generation stands tall.

    Three of them wobble on borrowed height in purple, orange and red. We stand beside them, steady and proud. The young learn to rise when someone has their feet on the ground.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitcommunityOakland
  13. An illuminated BRIDGEGOOD.com billboard with a city skyline silhouette stands against the night sky.

    Good deserves a bigger stage.

    The skyline glows over a dark road. Most of us start in the dark, half-seen, rehearsing our name. Then someone lights it up for the whole city to read.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOOD
  14. A group poses in front of a colorful painted wall, with one person kneeling in front and flashing peace signs.

    Melissa Colorado @ BRIDGEGOOD

    Someone kneels so the tall can stand behind. Two fingers up, a whole wall of yellow spelling out a city. Belonging is a photo where nobody is cropped.

    Location
    Oakland Chinatown, Califonia
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitOaklandcommunitymural
  15. Four men pose outside a glass doorway; three have folded arms, and one looks down while the others smile.

    Moonshots: Warriors, Google.org, BRIDGEGOOD

    Arms folded, shoulders against the glass, four of us letting the afternoon lean back. Big ideas start on sidewalks like this, with people who find each other funny first.

    Location
    Oakland Chinatown, Califonia
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitOaklandcommunity
  16. Robinhood founders and UX'ers poses in an office, with some standing and others crouching on a wooden floor.

    UX'ers, Vlad & Baiju at Robinhood HQ

    Some crouch, some tower, all of them squeezed in. A neon glow behind their heads like a held breath. Nobody asks who is front row. The floor holds everyone equally.

    Location
    Robinhood HQ, 85 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portrait
  17. Shaun Tai stands beside a bicycle onstage beneath a “BIKE TO THE FUTURE” sign, with audience silhouettes below.

    Bike to the Future: Capital Campaign

    A bicycle with a basket crosses the dark. The future glows above it, enormous and borrowed. You move the thing you love slowly, in plain view, and the room leans forward.

    Location
    Inspiration Awards, Oakland, California
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    stagecyclingOakland
  18. Person in a black cap and sweatshirt stands on a covered wooden pier with railings, benches and water alongside.

    YOU + ART

    The pier runs long and the light runs out. Every plank carries someone's footsteps already. Stand where the boards are warm. You don't have to hurry to the end to be somewhere.

    Location
    Jack London Square, Oakland, California
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitwaterfrontOaklandsunset
  19. People sit in orange chairs around a long table beneath three black pendant lights in a meeting room.

    UX with Vlad Tenev, CEO of Robinhood

    Orange chairs pulled close, name tags still swinging. Nobody here was born knowing the answer. The table works because everyone leans in.

    Location
    Robinhood HQ, 85 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  20. A group in blue shirts kneels and stands on a wooden stage holding certificates before Purpose to Pixels screens and a BridgeGood banner.

    Certificates held high on stage.

    Light falls across the stage where hands hold paper proof of the hours we gave together. Some kneel so the back row can stand taller.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitstagecommunity
  21. A large group of people in matching white BridgeGood shirts poses outdoors in front of a glass building surrounded by green trees.

    Shirts lined up in the sun.

    Sunlight finds the matching white shirts first and then the faces leaning in close We stand in front of glass that holds the sky and learn that a circle can hold us all

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitcommunity
  22. Two men stand facing each other at a dim indoor event, one in a light blue shirt and glasses laughing, the other in a dark pinstripe suit gesturing with his hand.

    Deep conversation, one warm laugh.

    In the dim hall the laughter finds its way across the space between two people who lean in like they have all the time the world can give

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai, Ron Dellums
    Tags
    portraitgroup portrait
  23. A group poses in front of a BRIDGEGOOD mural with white letters, orange and blue shapes, and red chairs.

    Everyone squeezes in for the photo.

    Some stand, some lean, some sit close to the floor. We made room for each other before the shutter. Bold shapes on the wall say what a room can hold. Belonging gets built one hand at a time.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODOaklandmuralgroup portrait
  24. A red Adobe MAX graphic with a circular photo of a smiling man in a BG cap and glasses.

    Joining the Adobe MAX panel.

    A small circle of a face on a loud red field. The invitation says join me, and means it. Courage can be that plain: saying yes to a seat at the table, then pulling out more chairs.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitBRIDGEGOOD
  25. Four people in black BG shirts sit and stand on yellow benches beside a chain-link fence in sunlight.

    Yellow benches, BG shirts.

    Chain link behind, bright benches in front. Someone chose yellow for a bare patch of asphalt. Turn an edge into a place to rest, and people will arrive to fill it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitBRIDGEGOODcommunityOakland
  26. Five people with name stickers pose before a large coral Airbnb logo sculpture, one holding a skateboard.

    A visit to Airbnb.

    Name stickers on every chest, new to the building. A skateboard, a notebook, a loop of coral behind us. Being a guest is where learning starts. Walk in anyway, and leave carrying a little of the room.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portrait
  27. A woman speaks at a podium on a dark stage beside a screen showing a large group in BG shirts.

    The BG team, up on screen.

    One voice at the podium, a whole team glowing above her. The crowd sits in shadow, waiting. We're never as alone as the dark makes us feel. Someone is always lit up behind you.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    stageBRIDGEGOODgroup portraitOakland
  28. An illustration of a smiling man in a blue suit and glasses with a blue bicycle against golden swirls.

    Blue suit, BRIDGEGOOD bike.

    Gold waves rise behind him like a tunnel of sunrise. He holds the handlebar and stays steady. What we build, we carry beside us. It gets us there only if we keep walking it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODportrait
  29. Two men sit on a wide window ledge between round tables, with a blue stool and a street outside.

    Window seat, blue stool.

    Two friends perch on the ledge between inside and street. One blue stool waits, empty, for whoever comes next. Leave a seat open. That is how a small place becomes a home.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  30. Four smiling people crowd together beside large windows, one holding an orange drink in a clear cup.

    Smiles by the big window.

    Four heads tilt in until the frame runs out of room. A cup of something orange, a window full of gray sky. Joy is gathered, not found. We lean toward it together.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitcommunity
  31. Three people sit on a wooden bench beside a lit fireplace, two in BG shirts and one making a peace sign.

    Warming up by the fireplace.

    A flame lies flat behind the glass, patient and low. Three of us on a long wooden bench, shoulders nearly touching. Community is mostly this: sitting close to the same warmth.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitBRIDGEGOODcommunity
  32. Two men sit on tan leather cushions on a tiered bench, one in a cap making a peace sign.

    Tan cushions, two friends.

    Tan cushions step up like a staircase. One friend flashes two fingers, the other simply smiles. We climb in tiers, and the best step is the one shared.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  33. Two men pose in front of a blue brick wall with a yellow tree, one in a navy jacket and one in camo.

    Under the yellow tree.

    A yellow tree grows out of a circle on blue brick. Two friends stand under it, arms folded, easy. Roots don't have to be underground. Sometimes they're a wall someone cared to paint.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitBRIDGEGOOD
  34. A person in a red jacket and black cap stands before a wall of glowing orange squares beside a plum chair.

    Against the glowing grid.

    Glowing squares behind him, a red jacket, hands in pockets. He looks down, thinking, a figure in the grid. Every lit window is someone's maybe. Stand in front of yours a while.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  35. Two men stand beside a large white banner with black brush calligraphy in a lobby with a colorful mural.

    Beside the calligraphy banner.

    Brush strokes the size of a forearm, one word for love. Two friends stand like parentheses around it. Some things are too big to hold alone, so we flank them and keep them upright.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitcommunitymural
  36. Two men in caps sit in black leather armchairs in front of a gold striped wall and a gray striped rug.

    Lounging by the gold wall.

    Gold slats slant like a sunrise caught in a lobby. Two of us lean back, low in the leather, unhurried. You can arrive in rooms like this and take your time anyway.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  37. Four people pose in front of a tall Christmas tree with ornaments, with blue bikes behind a white fence.

    By the big Christmas tree.

    Thousands of small lights, each one hung by hand. Blue bikes wait behind the fence, ready for wheels and futures. We stand close in the cold and call the warmth ours.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitBRIDGEGOODOakland Digital
  38. Two men sit on white stools onstage, one holding a microphone, before a projected slide titled UX Apprenticeship.

    Talking UX apprenticeships onstage.

    Two stools, one microphone, a slide full of doors. The answers matter less than the leaning in. Opportunity travels best as a conversation between people who listen.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    stageOakland
  39. A man in a black BG hoodie sits on a gray sectional couch beneath a large gold and brown canvas.

    A gray couch, a gold canvas.

    The canvas glows gold at its center and frays brown at the edges. Below it, one person sits quietly with his hands folded. Patience looks like this: waiting for the bright part to spread.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODportrait
  40. A night billboard shows a smiling group in BG shirts above the words Design for Social Good x BRIDGEGOOD.

    The billboard, lit up at night.

    Ordinary faces, forty feet wide, lit against the dark. Nobody asked them to be small. When a community is shown at scale, the whole street learns who it was always made of.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitcommunityOakland
  41. A smiling woman makes a peace sign in a selfie while a man in a cap and black shirt drinks behind her.

    Peace sign at the front table.

    Up front, two fingers and a grin. Behind, someone tips back a bottle, off duty from being watched. The real work happens in the background of a good day, when nobody is posing and everyone is home.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    OaklandBRIDGEGOODportrait
  42. Illustrated portrait of a man in a dark suit and tie with green slime dripping from his glasses on a green background.

    A portrait in slime green.

    Green runs down from both lenses, and the drawing keeps its calm. A friend looked closely and made the mess a portrait. Being seen is rarely tidy, and it is a gift.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  43. A man with glasses and crossed arms stands among blurred attendees in a dim hall with a glowing projection screen behind.

    Arms crossed, taking it in.

    Arms folded, he lets the room unfold. The blur at the edges is everyone else, moving. Some days leading means standing still, listening until the light finds what matters.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  44. A man in a black cap, sunglasses and polo holds a coffee cup in front of a mural of a panther and an elder.

    Coffee by the panther mural.

    A panther crouches on one side, an elder's eyes are closed on the other. Between them, a warm cup and an easy lean. We stand where the wall remembers both the fierce and the wise.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artpublic artportrait
  45. Three smiling people sit on an orange couch with colorful pillows in front of tall windows overlooking city high-rises.

    An orange couch, high above.

    A visitor badge clipped to a sleeve, and still the couch makes room. The whole city stands outside the glass. Belonging is a seat someone slides over to save.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portrait
  46. Blue and violet illustration of a stern man in a cap and glasses against dark storm clouds, with a Tizzle x BG caption.

    Storm clouds, by Tizzle x BG.

    The sky is churning purple behind a steady brow. He does not blink at the storm. Calm is a craft too, practiced one heavy day at a time until the clouds learn your name.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitBRIDGEGOOD
  47. Three people pose on a stone ledge at night, a woman pointing, a man in a tie making hand signs, and a man in a straw hat.

    Hand signs after dark.

    The night goes black behind them. Three people on a stone ledge, hands saying what words skip. Age and style do not matter here. Community is whoever sits down beside you.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portrait
  48. A man in a cap and quilted jacket leans on a weathered door beside an orange chair on gravel outside a gray wall.

    The orange chair and the door.

    The chair has been empty a long time. The door has been patched, peeled, patched again. He leans on what is left and looks ahead. Places forgotten still teach how to begin.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitOakland
  49. Two men in glasses pose behind a white counter with a turntable, one in a W cap making a peace sign.

    Posted up by the turntable.

    A record waits under glass, still, but ready. Two friends lean in close beside it. You do not need the music playing to know someone has your back.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  50. A person in a blue cap and black jacket, seen from behind, crosses a street with a long navy ABUS bag on their back.

    Crossing with the ABUS bag.

    The crosswalk stripes keep coming. A long bag rides on his back, heavier than it looks, carried anyway. Nobody sees the whole load. Keep walking, and let the street show its other side.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oakland
  51. A man in sunglasses and a cap leans on a rusty platform at the top of a ladder between two tall curved white walls.

    Top of the ladder.

    Rust, rails, and a long climb between two curved white walls. He leans as if the sky belongs here. Patience is a ladder. One rung, then the view you came for.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitstreet art
  52. A smiling bearded man in a white shirt points at a round wooden Google.org sign on shelves with green plants.

    Pointing to the Google.org sign.

    Two fingers point at a round wooden sign, and a whole grin follows. Behind him, plants lean toward the shelves. Growth likes a place that says you are welcome to thrive.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODportrait
  53. Two men in dark jackets clasp hands and smile in an indoor venue, one making a peace sign with a name tag on his lapel.

    A handshake and a peace sign.

    Two grips, locked. One face in full laugh, one in calm. A name tag is just paper until someone reads it aloud. That is how a stranger becomes a friend.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  54. A smiling woman in a BRIDGEGOOD shirt stands beside a man in a maroon hat and colorful patterned jacket in a hallway.

    A BG tee, a red hat.

    A backpack, a black tee, an arm around the shoulder. She holds the phone at arm's length and fits herself into the frame of someone bigger. How to belong is often just: lean in.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODportrait
  55. Two people pose on a dark stage before a red velvet curtain, one in a cap and mask, the other in teal pants.

    Onstage by the red curtain.

    The curtain is heavy and the stage is empty, so they fill it with play. A mask, a smirk, a borrowed pose. Courage often begins as two friends refusing to be serious.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    stageportrait
  56. Eleven smiling people stand in a row under a Google sign in front of a pegboard wall in a gray office.

    A group visit to Google.

    Eleven shoulders touch under a sign that belongs to someone else. For an afternoon, the room is ours. Stand where you were not expected. Smile like you were.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitcommunity
  57. A woman and a man laugh at a round table covered with open portfolios, design flyers and a black sjsu design sign.

    Laughing over SJSU design flyers.

    Flyers, portfolios, a laptop gone quiet, and two people laughing too hard to speak. The plan is on the table, but the joy is the proof. Hard work lasts longer when it sounds like this.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOOD
  58. Two men shake hands on a sidewalk under a colorful Oakland Digital billboard, with parked cars and a red building behind them.

    Under the Oakland Digital billboard.

    High above the street, young artists hang in color for everyone to see. Down here, two hands lock. A lifted voice needs someone who shakes on it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oakland DigitalOaklandBRIDGEGOODpublic art
  59. A man in sunglasses and a gray blazer stands by red stools in front of a wall of black and white pixel squares.

    By the pixel mosaic wall.

    Each square carries someone's handwriting. Alone, a pixel is nothing. Stack enough of them against a white wall and they read as a name. The floor keeps a second copy of us.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  60. A hand holds up a black pen portrait of a man with glasses, with a man at a laptop in a yellow classroom behind it.

    Sketched in ink at Oakland Digital.

    Someone spent an hour with a pen so a face could be held up like a flag. Behind it, a friend throws up both hands. Being noticed is a gift that takes real time to make.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oakland Digital
  61. Nine people pose against a white wall with the Twitter bird and a BG logo, some seated on the floor making peace signs.

    The BRIDGEGOOD crew at Twitter.

    Some sit on the floor, some stand tall, all of them squeezed into one frame. The camera is held by someone inside the picture. We teach each other how to be seen, then step in beside the people we taught.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitcommunity
  62. A man in a gray blazer stands before a green curtain beside a guitar case while another man in maroon adjusts studio lights.

    On set by the green screen.

    A green curtain waits to become anything. Someone adjusts the light while the one in front holds still. Most of craft is this: quiet hands arranging the glow for someone else.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  63. A person in black carries a wooden chair past a red brick wall lined with plants, a bench and flowers, under a cloudy sky.

    Plants against the brick wall.

    Someone carries a chair across a wall of old brick and new leaves. Do not park here, the paint says, but the plants have moved in anyway. Home is what you haul toward.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oakland
  64. Cartoon illustration of a man in glasses and a gray BG cap under a BRIDGEGOOD banner, on a green comic-style background.

    Cartoon Shaun in a BG cap.

    Ink turns a tired face into something bold and ready to speak. The name sits on the hat like a promise. Become the thing you keep building, then wear it every day.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODportrait
  65. Ten people pose in a wood-paneled lobby, some standing and some kneeling, in front of a large blue LinkedIn sign and a potted palm.

    Group photo in the lobby.

    Some kneel in front, some stand behind, and the carpet holds them all. Nobody walked into this lobby alone. A door opens wider when ten people lean on it together.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitcommunity
  66. A man with glasses and a short haircut sits in deep shadow, hand raised, lit by a warm glow against a pale pillar.

    A portrait in low light.

    Most of the room is shadow. One hand opens toward whatever is out of frame. You do not need the whole light, only enough of it to keep reaching.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  67. Two people pose below a dark mural of a green sprout growing from a seed, one crouching in a blue jacket and one standing in a black coat.

    Under the sprouting seed mural.

    The seed is cracked and the sprout is already climbing. Below it, two of us stand where the water pipes wait. Growth rarely asks permission. It asks for dark soil and a little company.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artpublic artportraitOakland
  68. A bearded man in a denim vest and cap and a man in a dark blazer pose in front of a colorful geometric mural.

    Hang loose by the mural.

    Orange chairs wait behind them, still warm from other people's work. Two hands make two different signs and neither one is wrong. Belonging is not matching.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artportrait
  69. A person in a blue cap, sunglasses and navy hoodie stands in a sunny parking lot with a second person behind.

    Blue cap, bright afternoon.

    A bridge stitched on a bright blue cap. Behind him, a friend walks on through painted lines. Some days are just the parking lot, the sun, the next thing to do. Becoming happens there too.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitOakland
  70. About twenty people pose behind a purple BRIDGEGOOD table banner that reads Build your Creative Career on a gym floor.

    Build your creative career.

    A purple banner, a laptop, a crowd packed shoulder to shoulder. Two crouch in front so everyone fits. A career opens the way a table does: someone pulls up a chair and says, you too.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitcommunity
  71. A man in sunglasses and a black polo leans against a wall with a bronze plaque, beside a boba shop and a blue bike.

    Leaning by the bronze plaque.

    Brass letters older than the boba shop beside them. He leans on the wall like it knows him. We come from somewhere before we come from anywhere. Standing tall means carrying both.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  72. A person in a red jacket and glasses sits in a beige armchair in a white lounge under black pendant lamps.

    A red jacket in the lounge.

    Lamps hang like quiet thoughts over an empty board. One person waits in a chair, a small carrot in the corner. Before the plan, there is the pause. Good rooms start with someone willing to sit in the blank.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  73. The name Shaun in red marker script on white paper, with a red Sharpie lying on a wooden surface.

    Shaun, in red Sharpie.

    A red name, flourished and underlined, the marker still warm on the table. Writing yourself large is practice. One day the world learns to read it without squinting.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    graffiti
  74. Two views of a person in a cap holding a giant Warriors check for ten thousand dollars on a basketball court before a crowd.

    Ten thousand from the Warriors.

    A fist up over a check as wide as a body. The arena roars on blue. Money is only the loudest way to say that someone believed you before you could prove it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oakland DigitalBRIDGEGOODOakland
  75. Left, stacked weathered timber beams; right, two men talking on a brick sidewalk beside a bike rack and a bike lane.

    Talking shop on Market Street.

    Old beams, notched and weathered, hold up the new room. Out on brick, two voices work it out. Good things are built from what already stood, and from talk that lasts past the plan.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  76. A man in glasses speaks at a red podium in front of a large screen reading Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork.

    Teamwork makes the dreamwork.

    Teamwork makes the dreamwork, in script on the screen. He leans toward the mic, almost shy. The truth about big dreams: they are always spoken in the plural.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    stageOakland DigitalOakland
  77. A cameraman, a man in glasses and a reporter in a blue KPIX jacket smile in a yellow office.

    The KPIX crew stops by.

    A camera, a thumb, two raised fists. The lobby sign says welcome, and means it. When the world finally points a lens your way, you already have people beside you.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oakland DigitalOaklandcommunity
  78. A man in a black suit and glasses stands behind a seated woman in a blue dress in a wood-floored hall.

    Suited up for the evening.

    A tiny mic on a blue dress, a hand on a chair back. The hall is quiet before the night begins. Someone stands behind you and the nerves turn into welcome.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  79. A person in a cap sits with a dog and an open laptop by a window overlooking the Bay Bridge.

    The Bay keeps us company.

    A small dog sleeps on the warm weight of work. The bridge goes on without hurry. Stickers cover the laptop like a map of every place that said yes. Becoming can be gentle, and it can have company.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Bay Bridgewaterfront
  80. A person stands against a brick wall painted with “Respect existence or expect resistance” beside an empty parking lot.

    The wall has something to say.

    A small figure leans on a wall of loud letters. Parking spot twenty-nine, weeds at the seam. Respect, the paint says, or be ready. Courage is just standing beside the truth and not shrinking.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralgraffitistreet artpublic artportrait
  81. A large group poses in rows in front of a blue LinkedIn logo on a wood-paneled wall.

    The next chapter has many faces.

    Someone knelt in front so the back row could be seen. Nobody planned it, everyone did it. A door opens wider when the people inside make room.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitcommunityBRIDGEGOOD
  82. A person in blue leans against a pillar at a tram stop while others wait beside the tracks.

    A little room between departures.

    Everyone here is waiting for something. One leans on a blue and yellow post and lets the wait be enough. Patience is not idle. It is trusting the next car is coming.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  83. A person in a black cap, sunglasses, and jacket stands outside a red-and-black storefront beside a metal gate.

    A little bright against the black.

    Black door, red trim, one gold character glowing like a word that survived. White sneakers on a wet sidewalk. Stand a little bright where the world is dark, and call it your corner.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  84. A group poses with colorful paintings and drawings in a studio beneath a large BRIDGEGOOD mural.

    There is room for your art.

    A painting taller than the people kneeling at it, eyes inside eyes, a hundred hours of ink. Each artist holds their small piece like a lantern. The wall behind them says good, meaning all of it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitBRIDGEGOODmuralcommunity
  85. A man in glasses and a baseball cap holds a small dog in a green jacket inside a cafe.

    A little room in your arms.

    Window light on a cheek, one arm curled around something small. Strength looks like this more often than a fist: a steady grip, and someone warm who trusts it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  86. A man in a cap and sunglasses stands hands on hips beside a large black-and-white portrait mural on a wall.

    Some faces belong on walls.

    A giant face looks out from a parking lot wall, still and unbothered. Someone made that with a brush and a stubborn hope. Put your hands on your hips and ask what you can make.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artportraitpublic art
  87. A group poses around a black car in a showroom beneath a BRIDGEGOOD x Polestar sign, with a small dog in front.

    There’s room for all of us.

    Twenty people, one small dog, and a car nobody asked to be near. Everyone leaned in a little. That lean is the whole lesson: room is made by closing the gap.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitcommunity
  88. Four people strike playful poses in front of a blue wall decorated with gold and silver letter balloons.

    Good company fills the whole wall.

    Gold letters, a paper bag, a pointing finger, no one standing the same way. Synergy looks like this: four kinds of silly, one wall that holds all of them.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portrait
  89. A man in red poses on a football stadium sideline, with another person facing the field and fans in the stands.

    A little closer to the game.

    Red boots on bright grass, stands rising behind. Thousands cheer for something they share. It is a strange gift to stand at the edge of the field and feel that you belong to a crowd.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    footballstadium
  90. A man in a White Sox cap, sunglasses and black vest leans against a deck railing with water and sunset behind him.

    A little room to look ahead.

    The day is burning down to orange. He leans on the rail and does not rush it. Looking ahead takes a steady arm and some trust that the dark is only the end of one chapter's light.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    sunsetportrait
  91. A person sits with palms together on a stone ledge beneath a large orange sculpture in a plaza surrounded by high-rises.

    A little stillness beneath the monumental.

    A great red ring rises behind, and one pair of hands comes together. The city can be enormous. You only have to find the quiet that fits inside you.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    public art
  92. Three men watch a seated man draw with a stylus on a tablet at a wooden table in a bright room.

    A few lines bring us together.

    One hand and a stylus at a wooden table, and the room goes quiet to watch. A line starts small. Then everyone standing near it is suddenly part of the drawing.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODcommunity
  93. Two people wearing black shirts and event badges pose in a gym, one kneeling beside the other, near an Obama banner.

    Change starts on the gym floor.

    The banner says ordinary people. The floor, scuffed by a thousand games, agrees. Kneel low, stand tall, flash the sign: nobody here is waiting for permission.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODportraitcommunity
  94. Four people wearing BRIDGEGOOD shirts and badges pose beside a Golden State Warriors logo in a lobby.

    The bridge is who shows up.

    Lanyards swinging, shoes bright blue. Nobody built this bridge alone, and today it has a lobby, a mural, four people grinning. The span is simple: show up, and bring someone.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitcommunity
  95. A collage on a white background combines portraits and candid scenes in blue, gold and black-and-white blocks.

    A community, piece by piece.

    One figure, sitting, built from a hundred small faces. A smile here, a notebook there, the sole of a boot made of strangers. No one of us is a whole picture until we are cut together.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    community
  96. Three adults pose in a BRIDGEGOOD workspace, one holding a video camera and the others raising their fists.

    Good is built shoulder to shoulder.

    A camera on one shoulder, three fists meeting in the middle. No one carried the story alone. The wall behind says our name, but the hands in front made it true.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitmuralOakland
  97. A person stands with hands behind their back on a sidewalk beside a graffiti-covered doorway and green lamppost.

    The block has its own language.

    Hands clasped behind, face turned away, the sweatshirt speaking for him. The gate wears layers of other people's names. A block teaches you to read before it asks you to answer.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    graffitistreet artOakland
  98. Three people in matching black shirts pose in front of a purple, black and white mural with a large eye.

    Different hands, the same roots.

    A giant eye watches from the wall, and three of us stand under it, unafraid. Each hand makes its own sign, each shirt carries the same small tree. We do not have to match to be rooted.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artgroup portraitcommunity
  99. A person walks past potted plants, a bench and a café table against a brick wall beside a wet street.

    Room to grow along the sidewalk.

    Do not park here, the curb insists. Meanwhile a chair is crossing the lot, and ferns have moved into the brick. Places turn into homes when someone carries a seat for a stranger.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    graffiti
  100. A man in sunglasses and a TOWN cap adjusts his hood in front of a bright pink, blue, and yellow cartoon mural.

    The wall gets a voice.

    Hood up against the cold, hands holding the edge. Behind him a cartoon grin and a sky of paint. Some days you shelter. Some days you let color shout for you.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artportraitpublic art
  101. Fans fill Levi’s Stadium as a giant screen shows people on the field beside a coin flip VIP sign.

    A big screen, a shared moment.

    Rain on thousands of red jackets, and one face lifted onto the biggest screen in the sky. Being seen takes years of quiet work. Then a hand waves, and the whole crowd is your neighbor.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    footballstadium
  102. Two men in red and white jackets walk across a football field in front of packed stadium stands.

    The field has room for two.

    Rain gear and red in every row above us. On the grass, two people walk the same slow line. The crowd roars for the game. Sometimes the win is walking out there beside a friend.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    footballstadium
  103. A person in a cap, brown jacket and bright-laced boots sits on rocks below a house and tall trees.

    Room to sit with the sky.

    The tree leans because the wind never asked its permission. It grew sideways and kept growing. Sit among the stones awhile. Bent is not the same as broken.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  104. A person in a black cap and hoodie sits on a wooden bench outside modern buildings with palm trees.

    The pause belongs here, too.

    Long shadows, hands folded, the lawn turning orange. The bench is slanted, the day nearly done. Rest is not leaving the work. It is how the work stays yours.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  105. Eight people gather around a laptop in a bright room, watching a seated person use it.

    Make room around the screen.

    One laptop, one red pen, eight faces leaning toward the same small light. We learn by crowding in. A young maker is never alone when the room refuses to stand back.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODcommunity
  106. Two hooded people stand with palms pressed together in front of a purple and black mural with a large eye.

    A little stillness against the noise.

    Behind us, a giant eye and a tangle of wires, the whole loud world watching. We close our own. Peace is a small shape made by two hands meeting.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artpublic artportraitgraffiti
  107. A man in a cap and sunglasses crouches with his palms together beside a chain-link fence overlooking a vacant lot.

    Room for what comes next.

    The lot is empty, and so it's open. Behind the fence, towers glow and paint climbs every wall. Crouch here, palms together. Some ground is only waiting to be asked.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    graffitiportraitstreet artOakland
  108. Two men give thumbs up beside mountain bikes on a dirt overlook above rolling hills.

    The climb is better together.

    Ridge after ridge of dry hills, and the valley hazy with distance. The climb never got shorter. We just stopped doing it alone, and now the thumbs go up.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    cyclingportrait
  109. A person in a yellow hoodie crouches beside a mural beneath Stop Asian Hate posters with raised fists.

    The wall stands with us.

    Paper fists line the wall in rows, and a figure crouches low beneath them. Sometimes courage is a heavy quiet and a place to rest your head. The wall holds. So do we.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    street artmural
  110. A man in a black cap, glasses and red wired earbuds looks upward beside a bright window.

    The world beyond the headphones.

    The window pours in so much light the edges give up. One red wire, one upward look. Sometimes becoming begins with the music turned down inside.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  111. A group poses with a colorful bicycle in front of a giant gingerbread figure and trees.

    A little sweetness, a whole crew.

    Ten of us squeeze behind one bicycle under a gingerbread grin the size of a house. Sweetness is not rare. It only needs a crowd willing to lean in.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitBRIDGEGOODcommunity
  112. Illustrated man in a black cap and glasses holds his palms together against blue and yellow rays.

    Respect, drawn in bold lines.

    Flat color, hard edges, rays breaking out behind a bowed head. Respect needs no shading. It is two palms meeting and a promise to keep showing up.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitBRIDGEGOOD
  113. Five people stand close together and pose in a colorful indoor space with murals and other people behind them.

    Good company in every color.

    Five people, five kinds of shoes, all angled toward the same small center. No one had to dim a color to fit. Good company is when the room gets brighter because everyone showed up as themselves.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitcommunity
  114. Two people sit on an office couch holding blue pillows with Twitter birds and hashtags, with a plush bear between them.

    A softer place to connect.

    Hold the pillow like a hand. Even a hashtag turns soft when someone sits close enough to share it. Belonging is mostly this: leaving room on the couch.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  115. A person in a hoodie and cap stands behind a blue bicycle in a room with a colorful mural and red couch.

    Two wheels and room to build.

    A stuffed animal rides in the basket. Spokes catch the studio light, and the wall behind is still being painted in. Nothing here is finished. You build the road by riding it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralBRIDGEGOOD
  116. Illustration of a smiling man in glasses and a blue suit holding a bicycle against a swirling yellow background.

    A suit, a bike, another way.

    Gold waves roll behind a blue suit and a bike. The wheel is drawn spoke by spoke, the way real change is made. Nothing here is rushed. Someone chose to ride, and the whole world bent around it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitBRIDGEGOOD
  117. A man in a black cap, sunglasses and sweatshirt leans on a waterfront railing beside docked sailboats.

    Art belongs by the water, too.

    Boats sleep at their moorings, the sky turns apricot and slow. You can lean on a rail and wait for the day to finish its work. Patience is also a way of making.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    waterfrontsunsetportrait
  118. A speaker holds a microphone on a wooden stage facing a seated audience in a blue-lit room.

    A room becomes a listening ear.

    A microphone, a wooden floor, a blue hush. The dark rows are not empty. They are hundreds of people holding their breath. Speak as if every shadow is someone who needed to hear it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    stage
  119. A person sits on a blue bicycle carrying a speaker and BRIDGEGOOD sign beside a waterfront railing at sunset.

    Good has wheels of its own.

    A speaker on the rack, a sign on the wheel, the water going gold beside the rail. You don't wait for a road to be built. You pedal, and the mission rides along.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    cyclingwaterfrontBRIDGEGOODsunsetOakland
  120. A person stands on the sidewalk in front of a George Floyd mural, behind a black metal railing.

    A wall that refuses to forget.

    A small figure stands before a face painted large enough to hold a grief. The fence is black, the wall is teal, the name is not gone. What we paint, we promise to carry.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artportraitpublic artgraffiti
  121. A man in a colorful hoodie, cap and boots sits on a sidewalk in front of a yellow, orange and red geometric mural.

    The wall and the fit agree.

    Hexagons of orange and red rise behind him, and even the boots carry carved patterns. Sit low, dress loud. The world makes room for people who stop shrinking.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artpublic artportrait
  122. A person rides a bicycle down a paved road toward low sunlight, with bright rays crossing their silhouette.

    The road still belongs to us.

    The sun is too bright to look at, so he rides toward it anyway. The dotted line bends off to the side. Sometimes the way forward is blinding, and you pedal until your eyes learn it.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    cyclingsunset
  123. Three people pose in front of a colorful mural of cartoon faces, with one holding a framed piece.

    A few faces, a bigger story.

    Faces tangle across the wall, connected by lines that never quite end. We stand small beneath them, holding a drawing. Your story was never meant to be one face. It gets bigger every time someone joins.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralstreet artgroup portraitpublic artcommunity
  124. Illustrated portrait of a person wearing glasses, a BG cap and a jacket beneath a BRIDGEGOOD sign on green.

    Good wears a familiar face.

    Flat green, bold black lines, a cap with two letters and a half-surprised look. Sometimes you only see yourself once someone draws you kindly. Become the picture they believed in.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portraitBRIDGEGOOD
  125. Two men in suits stand beside seated guests in a dim hallway with red padded walls.

    Style walks in with company.

    Red walls lean in like an audience. Two walk through, unhurried, and the room turns its head. Confidence is something you can lend, and it gets bigger when shared.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  126. Eight friends crowd together for a waterfront selfie with the Bay Bridge behind them.

    The Bay brings us together.

    One arm stretches to hold us all. The bridge behind is long and gray, but look at how close we lean. Belonging is someone reaching so nobody falls out of the frame.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Bay Bridgewaterfront
  127. Five adults pose together in a studio with bright overhead lights, black curtains and wooden chairs.

    Room for us in the frame.

    The lights are hot and the floor is black, and still we stand without a script. Courage often looks like this: walking into a room built for others and taking your place beside the chair.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portrait
  128. Three men pose together in an art-filled room, with the man on the right holding cameras.

    The town keeps good company.

    Arms thrown over shoulders, cameras hanging, a stylus at rest. Someone always has to hold the lens so the rest of us can prove we were held.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portrait
  129. Two men in blue and black suits pose with hands clasped before a perforated wall lit purple.

    Style has always been a language.

    Satin and silk, two sleeves, four hands folded. The walls glow purple behind them. What you wear says you decided to arrive, and to arrive as yourself.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  130. Illustration of a man with sunglasses and a blue backpack riding a bicycle toward sunlight on a tree-lined path.

    The road ahead needs you.

    He looks back once, but the light is all ahead. The dirt path has been rubbed smooth by people who kept going. Turn around to see who's following.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    cycling
  131. A man wearing a medal poses with two women in front of a blue Multiplying Good banner and black curtains.

    Good grows between us.

    A medal at the center, two smiles on either side. The banner behind says multiply. The shine is not in the metal. It is in the hands that steadied him long before this.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    communitygroup portrait
  132. Three people in matching navy hoodies pose with a bicycle against a blue wall painted with a yellow tree.

    Room for the next branch.

    The tree on the wall has no leaves yet, and three of us stand beside it, smiling. Bare branches are not an ending. They are what hope looks like in winter, when the roots do the quiet work.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitmuralBRIDGEGOODcommunity
  133. Two people stand with hands clasped in front of a bicycle displayed above a wooden cabinet lined with books.

    Two wheels, room for two.

    A bike hangs above the books like a promise. Two friends stand with hands folded, simple as a handshake. We keep what we love within reach and we keep each other closer.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  134. A helmeted cyclist sits on a bicycle in front of a colorful Inspire Oakland bench in a tree-filled park.

    Inspiration has a seat in Oakland.

    A bench is an invitation that asks nothing but weight. The city wrote its hopes on the seat backs, and someone stopped pedaling long enough to say yes.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    cyclingOaklandpublic artBRIDGEGOODOakland Digital
  135. A group poses around a colorful #TwitterForGood display with heart symbols in a brick-walled room.

    Good starts with showing up.

    Hearts painted in loops, the same arrows going round. Fifteen people knelt on a hard floor to be part of one small thing. Good begins with showing up, then staying.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitcommunity
  136. Two people pose by a Google Atlanta sign on a wood wall, one standing and one crouching with a peace sign.

    A place for us in tech.

    Old barn wood holds up bright new letters. All those years of weather, and still it carries what comes next. Bring your history with you. It makes a good wall to stand on.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  137. A group crowds together for a smiling selfie in front of a colorful Oakland mural, several flashing peace signs.

    Oakland has room for us.

    Too many of us for one frame, so we pile in anyway, elbows and peace signs. The wall says the city's name. Home is not a place with room. Home is where people make some.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oaklandmuralcommunitystreet art
  138. A group poses with certificates in front of a yellow wall with an Oakland mural, one person raising awards overhead.

    A city grows by opening doors.

    Paper held high, a painted fist on yellow brick. Each certificate is a night someone almost quit. A city gets stronger every time we hand each other proof.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    communityOaklandmuralgroup portraitOakland DigitalBRIDGEGOOD
  139. Two people sit facing each other in black armchairs beside a whiteboard with a pink Propeller logo.

    Room for the next conversation.

    Two chairs, angled toward each other, and a whiteboard waiting for its first line. Most doors open after a talk like this, where someone leans in and asks what you actually want to build.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  140. Two men pose with hand gestures in a hall with red ceiling beams, one wearing plaid and the other a yellow jacket.

    Room for a little swagger.

    Under red beams in a hall of folding tables, two hands throw signs at the camera. Joy needs no stage. A little swagger says we were already invited.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  141. Six people pose by a red beanbag against a blue wall, holding a BRIDGEGOOD sign and an Oakland Digital pillow.

    A bigger seat at the table.

    A red beanbag holds a whole family of strangers. Someone clutches a pillow with a tree on it. The table was never the point. We pull up whatever is soft and big enough and call whoever is near to sit.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitOakland DigitalBRIDGEGOODcommunityOakland
  142. Two pen sketches on white paper show a person wearing glasses and a baseball cap, one with a mustache and beard.

    A few lines, a whole character.

    Pen to paper, no eraser, the cap tilted, the glasses a little wrong. A face does not need to be perfect. It needs to be looked at long enough to be loved.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  143. A person in a floral shirt and cap leans on a tall table beside a Dior bag in a modern room.

    Personal style takes up space.

    Red, gold and black scattered like a loud idea. A book of dresses held up like a door. Taste is a kind of courage: wearing what you love before the room approves.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  144. Three people sit around a table in a café with exposed ducts, beside a window reflecting the Bay Bridge.

    The Bay has a seat

    Outside the glass, the bridge holds the evening. Inside, three heads bend toward their screens under pipes and warm wood. Craft is quiet, mostly. It is people showing up to the same long table.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Bay Bridgewaterfront
  145. A person in a red jacket sits on a tiled ledge beside two bicycles at Oakland's 19th Street BART station.

    The Bay moves its own way.

    Two bikes lean where the tiles go blue, and one foot rests on a ledge like a stair. Belonging is deciding the station is yours before anyone hands you the key.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oaklandcyclingportrait
  146. Nine people crowd together for a group selfie in an office, with one holding a blue Oakland Digital pillow overhead.

    A whole room in our corner.

    Arms stretch to fit one more face in the frame. A pillow rises overhead like a flag. Nobody asks who is closest to the camera. Home is whoever leans in.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oakland DigitalcommunityBRIDGEGOODOakland
  147. Wooden BRIDGEGOOD keychains rest on a printed photo of three smiling people with arms around each other.

    The dream has a key.

    Two small keys cut from wood, the grain still warm from the laser. Behind them, arms thrown over shoulders. A dream is heavy. It gets lighter with a keyring of hands.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    BRIDGEGOODgroup portraitOaklandcommunity
  148. Two men in suits, one wearing sunglasses and one glasses, pose before a perforated wall lit blue and purple.

    Two ways to own the room.

    Blue silk, black velvet, one wall of small lights. Neither suit apologizes for the other. You can arrive loud or arrive quiet. The room still has to make space for you.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  149. A man holding a cup leans against a brick wall beside the arched entrance to the Commonwealth Club at 555 Post Street.

    A pause before the doors open.

    Warm light waits behind the doors. Out here, a coffee going cool, the brick leaning back with you. Courage is often just this minute before you walk in as yourself.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  150. Five people gather and chat in a bright room with large windows, plants, and geometric hanging decor.

    The room begins with a conversation.

    Coats still on, suitcase waiting. Behind us the bridge hangs in the window, half mist, half promise. Before anything gets built, someone stops and listens.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Bay Bridge
  151. Four people wearing lanyards pose, one crouching, in front of windows filled with red and black printmaking posters.

    Good company, made by hand.

    Every poster behind us was pulled by hand, one press at a time, like the four of us in this doorway. Nothing worth keeping comes out in one pass.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portrait
  152. Four people pose with bicycles between parked cars in front of a brick wall covered in colorful portraits.

    The block has room for us.

    Masked faces watch from the brick, and four bikes lean toward the sun. The block was loud before we came. We rolled in, learned its names, and it learned ours.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    street artBRIDGEGOODpublic artOakland
  153. Two people sit in armchairs beside a round wooden table, with a large white carrot on a green plant wall behind them.

    Room for a conversation to grow.

    A carrot cut from white, set in moss, proof that something can be planted anywhere. Two chairs, one low table. Every big thing here began as someone sitting down to listen.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  154. Twelve people pose around a large red geometric sculpture outside a modern building with tall white columns.

    A little room for all of us.

    The towers stand tall and indifferent. We sat down on a ledge and became the warmest thing in the plaza. Belonging is small: shoulders touching, matching blue.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portraitpublic artBRIDGEGOOD
  155. Two men pose on a sidewalk in front of a closed storefront shutter covered in black-and-white artwork.

    The sidewalk has its own stage.

    The shutter is down, so the street became the gallery. Peace sign, scuffed boots, a drawing of a thousand tiny walkers. When the door is closed, make the wall in front of you speak.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    street artgraffiti
  156. A person in a cap sits on a purple window bench with colorful pillows beside a tall plant and office windows.

    A quiet seat in the conversation.

    Purple cushions, a small white bird on each. Below the glass, a city full of lit offices. Sometimes the bravest seat is the quiet one by the window, watching how others rise.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  157. A person in dark clothing poses with arms out amid blue light, orange light bars and overlapping shadows.

    Light finds every angle.

    Stand in front of the brightest thing and you become a shadow, then two, then three. The self is never one outline. Move, and the light keeps up.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  158. A man with glasses lounges in a padded booth, feet on the seat, using a laptop beside a wooden table.

    Room to put your feet up.

    Boots up, laptop warm, the booth a harbor. No one told this work to be stiff. Some of the best building happens when you finally feel at home enough to rest while you reach.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
  159. A man in glasses and a suit sits beside a smiling woman at an indoor event table with water bottles.

    Dressed for the same table.

    A chin rests on a hand, two seats at a long table. Someone dressed up for a room they were once told wasn't theirs. Sit down like you were invited.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  160. A person stands beside blue bicycles and a martial artist mural, with a BRIDGEGOOD Oakland Digital sign on one bike.

    Opening doors on two wheels.

    A blue martial artist is painted mid-motion, and two bikes lean on the same wall. The sign on the rack says go. A door opens when someone hands you wheels and trusts you with the street.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    muralBRIDGEGOODOakland Digitalstreet artOakland
  161. Two men sit behind a table during a panel, with a projected slide naming Shaun Tai and Jermund Wilkerson II.

    The hustle takes a seat.

    A microphone is just a small, brave question. Two of us sit under a glowing slide and say the true things aloud. Telling the whole story, even the hard rungs, is how the next person finds the ladder.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    Oakland Digital
  162. Two people wearing glasses smile with arms crossed in a blue television studio beneath a Weather Center sign.

    A little warmth at the weather desk.

    Arms crossed, but smiling anyway, nowhere near the forecast desk's usual storms. The floor shines like still water. Take the seat they said was not for you, then make it yours.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    portrait
  163. A person stands on a wooden stage beside a microphone, with a collage of faces projected behind them.

    A stage with room for everyone.

    One person, one mic, and behind him a wall of faces looking out. He is never really alone up there. We speak loudest when we carry the people who taught us.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    stageBRIDGEGOOD
  164. Ten adults crowd together and smile for a group portrait in front of a silver curtain indoors.

    Everybody belongs in the frame.

    Ten people, one frame, no one cropped. The sequins catch every laugh. Someone flashes a peace sign from the middle of the pile. Joy is what a crowd remembers.

    Location
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Featuring
    Shaun Tai
    Tags
    group portrait

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