De Kwok

De Kwok is a photographer based in San Francisco and Guerneville, CA. Currently, he is Head of Programming, Archivist, and Board Member of the Bob Mizer Foundation. His work has appeared in Warm Bros Magazine, Queer Quarterly, BalaclavaQ, Self Publish/Be Happy, Color Tag magazine, TinyVices, Seattle Erotic Arts Festival. His work has been shown in galleries worldwide: Seattle, NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Australia, Ireland, and Germany. His last photobook, Lust to Love, was selected for inclusion in the 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards/ Month of LA photobook show. His current Photobook, Codependency, was chosen by Author Tim Carpenter (“To Photograph is to learn how to die”) for inclusion in the filter festival’s On The shelf exhibition in chicago in 2025. the book is also part of the permanent collection at the harvey milk photo center/david johnson reference library (SF) and the bronx documentary center/Tim Hetherington photobook library (NYC).