Hamburger Eyes is a black and white photography magazine. Publishing since 2001, Hamburger Eyes has developed it’s own signature brand of photography and provided an outlet for both upcoming and established photographers worldwide.
Hamburger Eyes has produced over 200 titles of zines, magazines, and books alongside many exhibitions, commissions, and collaborations.
Hamburger Eyes is edited and published in San Francisco by photographer Ray Potes. In 2025, Potes and Hamburger Eyes were celebrated as part of a group show of contemporary photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: “Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography.”
Publisher Simon & Schuster says:
"Hilarious yet scary, hardcore yet charming, the Hamburger Eyes crew put out the illest lil' photography magazine the world has ever seen. Since the first issue of 30 xeroxed pamphlets was printed in 2002, Hamburger Eyes has become an elegant yet underground periodical combining the documentary approach of National Geographic with the hit-'em-hard sensibility of a late-night tagger.
"A pictorial history of both the intimate and iconic moments of everyday life, Hamburger Eyes is a travel journal, a personal diary, and a family album. Inspired by the traditions that began with Life magazine and Robert Frank, the magazine revitalizes the sensation of photography as a craft as well as a tool to record and document."
