Richard (Chip) Hay Jr. visually explores the dynamics between people and the environments that they create and inhabit. 

Using both film and digital images, he is currently working on a series of hyper-local explorations of the area where he lives.  He is also developing two photobooks using archival and contemporary images from West Africa and America. 

Hay has exhibited in several juried shows including those at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles Center of Photography. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University and studied photography there.  He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.