Rocky McCorkle

Rocky McCorkle is an internationally exhibited photographer who lives in San Francisco. McCorkle received his MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.

McCorkle’s series of 135 large-scale photographs titled You & Me On A Sunny Day is conceived as a silent film in the form of a sequence of stills. The works, seen in order, tell the story of an elderly woman recollecting, and at times dreaming about, her deceased husband and his youth as a champion long-distance runner. All of the interior shots were made in the artist’s own San Francisco apartment, which he transformed into a complex mise-en-scène for the unfolding narrative. To complete his monumental project, McCorkle spent every Sunday for five years photographing his downstairs neighbor, Gilda Todar, in the lead role.

He has shown extensively throughout the United States and abroad including Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Toronto, and Busan. In 2012, McCorkle’s You & Me On A Sunny Day was selected as the Analog Winner for EXPOSURE 2011 International Photography Award.

McCorkle's photography is in the permanent collection at the Berkeley Art Museum (BAM/PFA).