These photographs of the UC Berkeley campus and the San Francisco Bay Area were taken by Jelani Mahiri, Ph.D. student in the sociocultural anthropology program at UC Berkeley.

Jelani’s photographic work covers many diverse areas from salsa music and dance in the San Francisco Bay Area, to landscapes, to daily life in Brazil (which is in line with his anthropological interests). His work has been shown in Oakland and Berkeley, California; published in newspapers and journals; and is part of the permanent collection of the UC Berkeley Anthropology Department.

Jelani's areas of interest include social inequality, folklore, Latin America, Brazil, visual anthropology and photography. He is currently writing his dissertation, which examines the competing definitions and uses of the streets in relation to informal street work, social inequality and citizenship in São Paulo, Brazil.