Amir Aziz
@amir.photo
recovering photojournalist amirazizphoto.com
@coyotemedia.org
@coyotemedia.org
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Mainstream media loves doom, despair, and a sensational headline. But hopelessness is their tool, not ours. Meet COYOTE's First Aid Kit, our service journalism series where we'll pursue intersectional, evidence-based, and sometimes light-hearted solutions to the challenges of living in the Bay Area.
Introducing COYOTE's First Aid Kit
A how-to guide to surviving in the Bay Area.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Mainstream media loves doom, despair, and a sensational headline. But hopelessness is their tool, not ours. Meet COYOTE's First Aid Kit, our service journalism series where we'll pursue intersectional, evidence-based, and sometimes light-hearted solutions to the challenges of living in the Bay Area.
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Alan traces the evolution of Bay Area airbrushing through three generations of artists: from a decades-long flea market vendor to Deandre "Airballin" Drake, painter of Formula 1 cars and Playboy bunnies. www.coyotemedia.org/spray-area-t...
“Spray Area”: The Evolution of Airbrushing in the Bay
Airbrushing once offered local artists a full-time income; nowadays, it’s mostly a creative side hustle that recalls a nostalgic past. Here’s what the remaining artists have to say about it.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Alan traces the evolution of Bay Area airbrushing through three generations of artists: from a decades-long flea market vendor to Deandre "Airballin" Drake, painter of Formula 1 cars and Playboy bunnies. www.coyotemedia.org/spray-area-t...
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After years of fundraising, @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social has purchased the 3-story, mid-Market building housing its fine art studio. For artists like SupremeRivi11, the space provides community — but also art supplies and a gallery, things in short supply for low-income San Franciscans.
‘A Creator’s Dream’: Inside the SF Studio Building a Hub for Low-Income Artists
Hospitality House has purchased a mid-Market building that contains the nonprofit’s fine art studio — securing its future forever.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
After years of fundraising, @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social has purchased the 3-story, mid-Market building housing its fine art studio. For artists like SupremeRivi11, the space provides community — but also art supplies and a gallery, things in short supply for low-income San Franciscans.
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COYOTE is the best. You need to subscribe. Thanks @soleilho.com and everyone!
Check out our new series of spotlights on Bay Area worker coops! In our first installment, @soleilho.com drops in on the 50-year-old Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in SF to find out what makes it work — and to hear some tasty lore (including a fistfight over what color to paint the store building! 👀)
Bay Area Co-ops: ‘A Bunch of Weirdos’ Run a Grocery Store
Staff at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery reflect on collectivity, retail personhood, and an aesthetic disagreement that ended in a fistfight.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
COYOTE is the best. You need to subscribe. Thanks @soleilho.com and everyone!
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All our stories are FREE right now, but that won't always be the case (we gotta make money) so read them now! There are so many good ones to choose from y'all.
Like this @janelleblarg.bsky.social comic that I love SO much: www.coyotemedia.org/the-punks-vs...
Like this @janelleblarg.bsky.social comic that I love SO much: www.coyotemedia.org/the-punks-vs...
The Punks vs. The Pigs
An illustrated history of a lesser-known battle in Berkeley’s People’s Park.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
All our stories are FREE right now, but that won't always be the case (we gotta make money) so read them now! There are so many good ones to choose from y'all.
Like this @janelleblarg.bsky.social comic that I love SO much: www.coyotemedia.org/the-punks-vs...
Like this @janelleblarg.bsky.social comic that I love SO much: www.coyotemedia.org/the-punks-vs...
We’re live! 🚀🚀🚀
❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️
COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org
COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org
September 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We’re live! 🚀🚀🚀
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❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️
COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org
COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️
COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org
COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org
Don’t let me spend more than $2500 at the Chinatown night market in Oakland pls
September 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Don’t let me spend more than $2500 at the Chinatown night market in Oakland pls
Being back in the Bay has been revelatory and heartwarming. Stuff soon.
August 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Being back in the Bay has been revelatory and heartwarming. Stuff soon.
“We need photos of Tule Elk”
My pleasure 😝
My pleasure 😝
August 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“We need photos of Tule Elk”
My pleasure 😝
My pleasure 😝
Oakland, I’ve finally returned from my long-term side quest in search of the “there” in “there’s no there there”
Results: “There” is in us, not on us.
Results: “There” is in us, not on us.
July 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Oakland, I’ve finally returned from my long-term side quest in search of the “there” in “there’s no there there”
Results: “There” is in us, not on us.
Results: “There” is in us, not on us.
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Did you know that you can follow all our COYOTE co-founders (who have Bluesky accounts) with just one beautiful click? Here you go!! go.bsky.app/8qE8JRY
July 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Did you know that you can follow all our COYOTE co-founders (who have Bluesky accounts) with just one beautiful click? Here you go!! go.bsky.app/8qE8JRY
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🎉 WE DID IT! We hit our initial $80K goal in just ONE WEEK! 🎯⚡
The response to COYOTE has been incredible—thank you SO MUCH to everyone who believes in independent, worker-owned journalism for the Bay Area.
But we're not stopping here...
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The response to COYOTE has been incredible—thank you SO MUCH to everyone who believes in independent, worker-owned journalism for the Bay Area.
But we're not stopping here...
givebutter.com/coyotemedia
June 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🎉 WE DID IT! We hit our initial $80K goal in just ONE WEEK! 🎯⚡
The response to COYOTE has been incredible—thank you SO MUCH to everyone who believes in independent, worker-owned journalism for the Bay Area.
But we're not stopping here...
givebutter.com/coyotemedia
The response to COYOTE has been incredible—thank you SO MUCH to everyone who believes in independent, worker-owned journalism for the Bay Area.
But we're not stopping here...
givebutter.com/coyotemedia
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awooooo we're starting a publication in the Bay Area with a STACKED team (@amir.photo @rahawahaile.bsky.social @nuala.bsky.social @estefancy.bsky.social
@pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social @soleilho.com
@emmaruthless.bsky.social @dannymlavery.bsky.social AND MORE)! givebutter.com/coyotemedia
@pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social @soleilho.com
@emmaruthless.bsky.social @dannymlavery.bsky.social AND MORE)! givebutter.com/coyotemedia
Launch Coyote Media Collective
A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area
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June 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
awooooo we're starting a publication in the Bay Area with a STACKED team (@amir.photo @rahawahaile.bsky.social @nuala.bsky.social @estefancy.bsky.social
@pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social @soleilho.com
@emmaruthless.bsky.social @dannymlavery.bsky.social AND MORE)! givebutter.com/coyotemedia
@pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social @soleilho.com
@emmaruthless.bsky.social @dannymlavery.bsky.social AND MORE)! givebutter.com/coyotemedia
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Launch: Late summer 2025
Goal: $80K
Promise: Memberships to support journalism that informs AND delights
Together, let's build something different: givebutter.com/coyotemedia 4/4
Goal: $80K
Promise: Memberships to support journalism that informs AND delights
Together, let's build something different: givebutter.com/coyotemedia 4/4
Launch Coyote Media Collective
A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area
givebutter.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Launch: Late summer 2025
Goal: $80K
Promise: Memberships to support journalism that informs AND delights
Together, let's build something different: givebutter.com/coyotemedia 4/4
Goal: $80K
Promise: Memberships to support journalism that informs AND delights
Together, let's build something different: givebutter.com/coyotemedia 4/4
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Can't get enough billionaire-free media and independent reporting—local, national, international? There's a starter pack for that (link in the QP) and it's still growing! I just added @coyotemedia.org in the Bay Area, a media collective crowdfunding NOW to launch in late summer. Pitch in if you can!
June 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Can't get enough billionaire-free media and independent reporting—local, national, international? There's a starter pack for that (link in the QP) and it's still growing! I just added @coyotemedia.org in the Bay Area, a media collective crowdfunding NOW to launch in late summer. Pitch in if you can!
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TAG YOURSELF which Coyote are you? And while you're at it, join us at @coyotemedia.org and support our new org. The rewards are fun, and if you get a nature walk I might teach you about seaweed foraging or lichen identification!
Right now I'm 3 but in photos I'm always somehow 1.
Right now I'm 3 but in photos I'm always somehow 1.
June 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
TAG YOURSELF which Coyote are you? And while you're at it, join us at @coyotemedia.org and support our new org. The rewards are fun, and if you get a nature walk I might teach you about seaweed foraging or lichen identification!
Right now I'm 3 but in photos I'm always somehow 1.
Right now I'm 3 but in photos I'm always somehow 1.
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Join me in supporting Coyote Media Collective, a new worker-owned publication stacked with some of the most talented writers in the bay area and launching later this summer. Cannot wait to read this.
Launch Coyote Media Collective
A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area
givebutter.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Join me in supporting Coyote Media Collective, a new worker-owned publication stacked with some of the most talented writers in the bay area and launching later this summer. Cannot wait to read this.
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Photographing a rally in New Haven and I can’t feel my toes 🥶 @ 21° F
January 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Photographing a rally in New Haven and I can’t feel my toes 🥶 @ 21° F
Oakland! New year, new issues. Don’t change.
January 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Oakland! New year, new issues. Don’t change.
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Attention photojournalists! The deadline to apply to this new fellowship is Feb 2. Named after Issam Abdallah, a courageous Reuters visual journalist, who was killed on October 13, 2023, while covering cross-border shelling on the Israeli-Lebanon border.
careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...
careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...
Issam Abdallah Visual Journalist Fellowship, Reuters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates | News & Editorial Careers at Thomson Reuters
Apply for Issam Abdallah Visual Journalist Fellowship, Reuters job with Thomson Reuters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. News & Editorial Careers at Thomson Reuters
careers.thomsonreuters.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Attention photojournalists! The deadline to apply to this new fellowship is Feb 2. Named after Issam Abdallah, a courageous Reuters visual journalist, who was killed on October 13, 2023, while covering cross-border shelling on the Israeli-Lebanon border.
careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...
careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...
Good evening. Checking in with my folks—I am still photo-ing. I am still resisting. Miss y’all and see y’all soon.
December 7, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Good evening. Checking in with my folks—I am still photo-ing. I am still resisting. Miss y’all and see y’all soon.
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Congrats @momo-chang.bsky.social and @amir.photo on a great story and powerful photos! That one shot of the crab's claws creeping out the top of the crate made me jump 🐳🦀⚓
I won 1st place in Environment reporting from SF Press Club for a @berkeleyside.bsky.social story about whale entanglements, the local Bay Area dungeness industry, and the impact of regulations on local crabbers and communities. I share this award with editor Tovin Lapin & photographer @amir.photo!
December 5, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Congrats @momo-chang.bsky.social and @amir.photo on a great story and powerful photos! That one shot of the crab's claws creeping out the top of the crate made me jump 🐳🦀⚓