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Event Type: SHOW
2024-04-22 to 2025-01-31
Pier 24
Pier 24, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105
Event is Free
Hours: Mon - Fri 9:00 AM-5:00 PM;
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As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. In its more than ten years, Pier 24 Photography has exhibited many thousands of photographs, and thus hundreds of thousands of hypothetical words. Up until now, every show has begun with the Pilara Foundation Collection and expanded from there. Turning the Page is the first exhibition that does not feature works from our collection. Instead, it looks at and celebrates the photobook, a medium that has undergone its own renaissance parallel to our years in operation. Each of the galleries presents works from a distinct photobook, whether an iconic volume or a recent monograph. The content, sequence, and design of each selected book guided our approach to that particular installation, aiming for a thoughtful translation of its overall tone and intent. Ultimately, Turning the Page invites you to consider how the viewing context impacts our understanding of a photographic project.
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Among the classic works represented here are Robert Frank’s Les Américains (The Americans, 1958), Masahisa Fukase’s Karasu (Ravens, 1986), Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home (1992), and Jim Goldberg’s Raised by Wolves (1995)—four photobooks that speak to the breadth of the medium across the second half of the twentieth century. Many consider The Americans so influential that every photobook since has been either in conversation with it or in rebellion against it. Ravens trades Frank’s restless questioning of the American dream for a dark, introspective processing of grief in the aftermath of Fukase’s divorce; both demonstrate how image sequencing can evoke feeling and narrative. Pictures from Home and Raised by Wolves build upon these precedents, combining image sequence, page layout, and text to tell powerful stories and reveal certain truths.
Over the past twenty years, photobooks have become increasingly essential to many photographers, offering a distinctive medium for fully realizing their visions—often pushing the boundaries of the book form along the way. This approach to design and layout extends to how several of the featured photographers have installed works from their projects. Few artists have explored the photobook’s range as extensively as Rinko Kawauchi, whose Ametsuchi (2013) unifies book design with her project’s concept and visual content; her lyrical installation echoes the sequence and design within her book’s pages. Vasantha Yogananthan’s A Myth of Two Souls (2016–21) is a series of seven individual yet related photobooks, one for each chapter of the Hindu epic the Ramayana, upon which the project is loosely based. The design of Rose Marie Cromwell’s El Libro Supremo de la Suerte (2018) is based on Cuban charadas—small photocopied pamphlets that guide people in placing bets in Havana’s underground lottery by assigning numbers to everyday objects; Cromwell’s nonlinear approach to image sequencing is also informed by this random system. And in Wires Crossed (2023), Ed Templeton documents two decades of his life as a professional skateboarder in a dense, frenetic sequence evoking the look and feel of the skate world he helped create. These four photographers have conceived unique installations for Turning the Page that speak to the kind of engaging experiences they are known for creating when translating their works from page to wall.
Pier 24 Photography has long believed in the photobook as an essential vehicle for both discovering new and exciting photographers, and looking deeply at the history of the medium. Additionally, we have contributed to the photobook community with our own publishing program. As with all of our shows, we hope you will see both familiar works that call out to you as old friends might, and unfamiliar photographers for you to encounter. It is this eye toward the future, with a humble respect for the past, that unifies the work on display. We hope you will join us as we turn the page together.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Richard Avedon | Libby Black | Rose Marie Cromwell | Rineke Dijkstra | Robert Frank | Masahisa Fukase | Jim Goldberg | Curran Hatleberg | Rinko Kawauchi | Baldwin Lee | Helen Levitt | Zanele Muholi | Cindy Sherman | Donavon Smallwood | Alec Soth | Larry Sultan | Ed Templeton | Vasantha Yogananthan
Event Type: SHOW
2024-11-16 to 2025-01-31
Photography West Gallery
Dolores Street, 1 SE of Ocean Ave, Carmel, CA 93921
Event is Free
Hours: Sun - Mon 12:00 AM-12:00 AM; Wed - Sat 11:00 AM-5:00 PM;
For more information:
website: www.photographywest.com
Please join us for Christopher Burkett’s annual artist reception at the gallery on Saturday, November 16th, from 3-5pm, featuring an exhibition of his handcrafted Cibachromes.
Event Type: OPENING
2025-01-25 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Harvey Milk Photography Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
Event is Free
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Edward Weston’s iconic modernist images made the Oceano Dunes famous for photographers. Lana Z Caplan’s project Oceano (for seven generations) tells the story of the Oceano Dunes through the dunes’ successive inhabitants, while interrogating photographic history and convention. Co-constructed, performative portraits contrast the historic inhabitants – the Indigenous yak tityu tityu yak tiłhini (ytt) Northern Chumash Tribe, Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 ancient Egyptian film set, the Modernists, and a colony of depression-era artist and mystic squatters – with the current ATV riding community that is the source of a public health crisis for neighboring communities. Black and white landscape images that resemble Weston’s are flipped into negatives, confusing the notion of photographic truth and challenging the male-dominated history of the genre.
his landscape is not the utopian, mythological, American West landscape of the Modernists. Yet this is, more profoundly a landscape of stolen territory, exploited and extracted resources, homeless encampments, and a habitat in ecological peril. Through photographs, video and text, Oceano (for seven generations) ultimately aims to question legacies of colonization, media history, and the politics of land use – charging this cultural landscape with significance far beyond the Oceano Dunes.
*The subtitle for the book for seven generations comes from a phrase used by Lorie Lathrop Laguna, ytt Northern Chumash Tribe, in a phone conversation with Caplan― “Our decisions are made while thinking seven generations into the future”. The Seventh Generation Principle is believed to date back to the twelfth century Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Event Type: CLASS
2024-11-13 to 2025-02-04
ImageCentral
1099 E Street, Hayward, CA 94541
Residents $200.00, Non-residents $210.00
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In this class, you will learn lighting for portraiture, as well as posing, light set up, starting with one light up to a five light set up. Some lighting scenarios will be demonstrated with a live model!
Activity meeting dates Feb 4, 2025 - Feb 25, 2025 Tue 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type: SHOW
2024-11-04 to 2025-01-31
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3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903
Event is Free
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More than 50 photographs of homeless people and formerly homeless people from across Marin County are on display at the Civic Center.
The exhibit — titled “I Will Not be Forgotten: The Dignity in Homelessness” — was curated by the Marin County Department of Cultural Services and the Marin Cultural Association. The title refers to a message written on a portable toilet below a San Rafael overpass.
San Rafael photographer Lea Del Pomo, a retired Marin County employment counselor, took the pictures.
“This has always been my interest: people who are isolated, who we may not give voice to, and maybe aren’t seen and are invisible,” she said. “For me, they are some of the most important people to meet.”
The people in the images are only identified by their first names to respect their privacy. Some of the photographs come with written statements about their subjects.
Pairs of the subjects’ shoes have been placed below the photographs, prompting viewers to consider what it’s like to walk in their shoes.
Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT
2024-11-08 to 2025-01-31
Corden Potts Gallery
, San Francisco, CA 94108
Event is Free
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"I started taking photographs as a boy in Scotland. Photography since then has been a way to see extraordinary things in everyday objects and places."
Rory Earnshaw’s photographs are taken on medium and large format film and are available as gelatin silver prints.
Event Type: SHOW
2024-11-23 to 2025-01-25
Casemore Gallery
1275 Minnesota Street, #102, San Francisco, CA 94107
Event is Free
Hours: Tue - Sat 11:00 AM-6:00 PM;
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Casemore Gallery is pleased to present Mercy, Give and Take, a group exhibition that explores the idea of opposition in the photographic works of John Gossage, Raymond Meeks, Awoiska van der Molen, Sean McFarland, and Aspen Mays.
The show pairs works from each of the included artists, with each pairing sharing common visual elements—buildings, landscapes, photographic tools—but in markedly juxtaposed states, whether life or death, turmoil or serenity, idyll or menace, pushing up or giving way, or even transposal of space. In doing so, the viewer has the opportunity to look beyond the idea of opposition as having two parts, and ponder all that lies between.
Event Type: ONLINE ARTIST TALK
2025-02-04 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Center for Photographic Art
San Carlos at 9th Avenue, At the Sunset Center, Carmel, CA 93921
General Admission $10.00, CPA Members $.00
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Click HERE to register before February 3 at 6:00pm. You will receive a zoom link the evening before the talk.
Please join us for this special talk with award winning photographer, Norma I. Quintana. RECUERDOS: Forget Me Not is a portrait project inspired by Quintana's archive of antique family photo-booth images which tell the story of her family’s migration from Puerto Rico. Her extensive series of black and white portraits shot in film on a Hasselblad document the everyday people with extraordinary lives. Commissioning an artist to recreate the backdrop and stand present in most of the archival photographs, Recuerdos is meant to conjure the look and sentiment of photo-booth photography of mid-century Caribbean and Latin America. With this project, Quintana explores the history of migration, and the fundamental importance of being remembered.
Event Type: SHOW
2024-12-07 to 2025-01-26
East Bay Photo Collective
312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210
Event is Free
Hours: Fri - Sun 12:00 PM-7:00 PM;
For more information:
website: www.ebpco.org
Curated by Malcolm Wallace, MOMENTUM is a photography exhibition that captures the beauty, energy, and emotion of movement through diverse scenes and subjects. This collection invites viewers to explore movement as a universal thread woven into nature, cities, and daily life. Featuring striking moments frozen in time and sweeping motion blurs, the exhibition presents scenes from dynamic urban streets and tranquil landscapes, as well as intimate portraits and the lively rhythms of wildlife.
Join us for an opening reception Friday, December 6th, 6-9pm.
Event Type: SHOW
2024-12-01 to 2025-01-31
ImageCentral
1099 E Street, Hayward, CA 94541
Event is Free
Hours: Mon 5:00 PM-9:00 PM; Tue 11:00 AM-2:00 PM; Thu 11:00 AM-2:00 PM;
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Poetry in Motion explores the profound connection shared between humans and horses across cultures and beyond borders. Over the last 6 years, I’ve journeyed through India, Mongolia, Japan, Easter Island, Spain, France, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Indonesia, Romania, Switzerland, and the USA. What began as a personal passion has transformed into a life-changing experience
Event Type: ONLINE ARTIST TALK
2025-01-30 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Center for Photographic Art
San Carlos at 9th Avenue, At the Sunset Center, Carmel, CA 93921
General Admission $10.00, CPA Members $.00
For more information:
Click HERE to register before January 29 at 6:00pm. You will receive a zoom link the evening before the talk.
Congratulations to the inaugural Salon Jane Award winner, Allison Plass! Please join us for a special artist talk with this talented photographer and imagemaker. In her ongoing series, Boys in the Garden, she situates her husband and two teenage sons within imaginary frames of possibility. What does it feel like for those who identify as boys and men to have only been given one story? Find out more about her project and how she changes and challenges this story. You'll also learn about her award winning photography and her trajectory as an artist in this informative and inspiring talk!
About Salon Jane and the Salon Jane Award for Women in Photography Salon Jane is thrilled to announce a new award at the Center for Photographic Art. This award is given to a female artist, with the intention of encouraging women artists to create and to promote more women in the arts. Beginning in 2024, any woman who has been selected for the annual CPA International Juried Exhibition, either the main gallery or web gallery, is eligible. The juror will choose the winning image and award the $1000 prize. This will be an annual award supporting women in photography.
Salon Jane is a six-member artist collective formed in Monterey, California, in 2014. Over the past 10 years, the members of Salon Jane have created a safe environment for artistic risk-taking, inspiration and creative evolution. The group exhibits their photographic work at galleries and museums. Salon Jane members are Martha Casanave, Susan Hyde Greene, Jane Olin, Anna Rheim, Robin V. Robinson, and Robin Ward. To learn more about Salon Jane, please visit their website: salonjane.com
Event Type: WORKSHOP
2024-12-01 to 2025-01-26
East Bay Photo Collective
412 13th Street, EBPCO Community Darkroom, Oakland, CA 94612
General Admission $70.00
For more information:
website: www.ebpco.org
Sunday, January 26, 2025 10:30 AM 2:00 PM
This one day workshop will be held at the EBPCO Community Darkroom. Signup info at ebpco.org/workshops
We’re partnering with local roaster Rasa Caffe to source some beautiful coffee for participants in this workshop to enjoy in two different ways: as a delicious warm beverage AND ALSO as a developer base for black & white film processing! In this one-day workshop, participants will learn the basics of film processing with homemade Caffenol developer.
This workshop is open to all. Basic EBPCO Members receive a 20% discount off this workshop; Premium EBPCO members receive a 50% discount!
Event Type: OPENING
2025-01-25 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613
Event is Free
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Kick off MCAM’s centennial year with the opening reception for Kija Lucas: Hidden Histories and Photography & the Specimen. See Lucas’ artworks come alive with an augmented reality experience from Black Terminus.
Kija Lucas uses photography to explore home, heritage, and memory. Through the seemingly neutral lens of scientific photography, Lucas emphasizes the beauty of her botanical subjects to speak to the embedded layers of history and meaning that impact our understanding of society.
Inspired by Kija Lucas’s use of botanical specimens to reveal hidden histories, this selection of photographs from the Mills College Art Museum’s collection explores various modes of the photographic specimen and their operations as forms of knowledge.
Both exhibits are on view from January 11 to March 23, 2025.
Event Type: SHOW
2024-11-05 to 2025-01-28
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Thompson/Dorfman Partners, 39 Forrest St., Mill Valley, CA 94941
Event is Free
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A light painting that resulted from Duane M Conliffe’s photo experiments/playtime. These artworks were initially a form of visual meditation and relaxation that he engaged in while in downtime from more precision-oriented photography work.
I have been an avid photography fan and practitioner since my childhood immersion in Life, Ebony and Jet magazines on my parents living room floor in Washington, DC. Photography has been a constant in my life since. In my early twenties, I moved to San Francisco with the goal of becoming a world class photographer. I am an East Coast born & raised and West Coast synthesized art photographer. I bring forward creative sensibilities from both coasts in my artwork; such as intent, beauty, imagination and freestyle (Flow). I have photographed, published and/or exhibited works that include botanicals, historical figures, architectural icons, motor racing and abstracts.
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Event Type: SHOW
2024-09-24 to 2025-02-02
Museo Italo Americano
2 Marina Blvd., Building C, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA 94123
General Admission $10.00, under 18 $.00
Hours: Tue - Sun 12:00 PM-4:00 PM;
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The Museo Italo Americano of San Francisco is pleased to present a unique exhibition titled Into the Light, celebrating the talent of two of Italy’s most significant photographers: Elio and Stefano Ciol.
The father-son duo, hailing from Casarsa della Delizia in the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, will bring to the museum a selection of works that highlight their masterful use of light and perfect balance of geometric lines, angles, and photographic composition—three essential aspects that enable them to create visually captivating and highly structured pieces.
Elio Ciol, renowned as one of the foremost masters of landscape photography, will showcase a collection spanning over sixty years. Included are images of Friulian landscapes, portraits of Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, a dear childhood friend, and two special tributes: one to Assisi, a city to which the artist feels a deep connection and which is twinned with San Francisco, and another to the United States. Elio Ciol has compiled an impressive photographic collection of Italian art, architecture, landscapes, and archaeological sites, with a special focus on the Friulian region. Many of his predominantly black and white shots have been featured in over one hundred solo exhibitions.
Stefano Ciol invites us to explore an intense selection of works where landscapes unfold through veils of light, mist, and snow. These are images not only to be observed but to be experienced—they beckon the viewer to share in the contemplative experience of the artist, a sensory journey that transcends sight to touch the soul. Mastery in the use of light, shadows, and chromatic tones is the key that opens the door to this almost meditative experience. His sensitivity to light and shadow has driven him towards continual technological advancements. He has adeptly merged traditional techniques with cutting-edge methods to perfect the harmony between his vision and the final image.
Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT
2024-12-19 to 2025-01-26
East Bay Photo Collective
312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210
Event is Free
For more information:
website: www.ebpco.org
Curated by Malcolm Wallace, MOMENTUM is a photography exhibition that captures the beauty, energy, and emotion of movement through diverse scenes and subjects. This collection invites viewers to explore movement as a universal thread woven into nature, cities, and daily life. Featuring striking moments frozen in time and sweeping motion blurs, the exhibition presents scenes from dynamic urban streets and tranquil landscapes, as well as intimate portraits and the lively rhythms of wildlife.
[Click HERE to view](https://www.ebpco.org/exhibitions/online/momentum
Event Type: OPENING
2025-01-24 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Haines Gallery
2 Marina Boulevard, Building C, San Francisco, CA 94123
Event is Free
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Haines Gallery proudly presents State Shift, our second solo exhibition with artist MEGHANN RIEPENHOFF. Opening in tandem with SF Art Week 2025, this highly anticipated show debuts a poetic, visceral, and personal body of work that expands Riepenhoff’s collaboration with both the cyanotype and the environment.
Riepenhoff creates her cyanotypes directly within the landscape, allowing the elements to leave physical inscriptions on paper coated with photographic materials. Marking an important breakthrough in her practice, State Shift sees the introduction of new pigments and gestures into Riepenhoff’s process. The signature inky indigos and glacial blues of her cyanotypes are transformed with vivid flashes of green, coral, magenta, and shimmering metallic hues, the result of organic materials (mica, mushroom ink, and gingko chlorophyll) and manufactured pigments (a nod to the human presence in the landscape). Striking colors and patterns branch and bloom across the paper’s surface, calling to mind both natural forms — the movement of water; webbing rivers and streams; mycelial networks, underground roots, and algae blooms — as well as the gestural flourishes of sumi ink paintings.
The title State Shift, which names both the exhibition and the series on view, is a geological term describing dramatic and sudden changes to ecosystems — often when critical thresholds are crossed. The artist personally experienced one form of this catalyzing phenomenon in early 2024, when an extreme weather event caused extensive damage to her Pacific Northwest home. The works in State Shift were made during this time of displacement, which Riepenhoff used as an opportunity to explore national sites highly compromised by human intervention. These include Miami Beach, FL, considered a “ground zero” of the climate crisis, barraged by recurring storms and threatened by rising sea levels; and the former town of Moncton, WA, which was completely submerged in 1915 when an ill-advised dam was constructed to provide Seattle with power and water.
Riepenhoff's increased mark-making in State Shift draws attention to these devastating effects of climate change. She flings pigment onto paper, uses her breath to move liquid media, drapes paper across carved earthen contours, and presses her hands onto the surfaces of her works. Her actions serve as an allegory for the human impacts on the landscape. They are also gestures of protest against the systems of power and policies that drive these changes, and an attempt to reconnect with the landscape itself.
“The physical nature of my work, where photography-based media come in contact with rain, waves, wind, and wintry environments, is a call to be in closer contact with our environment, in a time of deep separation between humans and our ecosystems,” Riepenhoff has said. In issuing this call — both to herself and to viewers — the artist invites us all to consider the personal and collective shifts we might make to preserve our shared home. State Shift emerged from difficulty and explores sites of climate devastation, but is rooted in the possibilities of transformation and hope. “Hope,” the author and activist Rebecca Solnit has written, “is a belief that what we do might matter, an understanding that the future is not yet written.”
State Shift coincides with Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, a major group exhibition opening at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in February 2025 that features Riepenhoff's work. Originating at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, Second Nature will travel to the Anchorage Museum, AK following its presentation at the Cantor.
Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT
2024-12-30 to 2025-01-31
First Exposures
265 Shotwell Street, PO Box 881971, San Francisco, CA 94188
Event is Free
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Envision is our annual free community portrait event in partnership with the Women's Building and this year, it was a beautiful event!
In just 4 hours, the phenomenal First Exposures' youth made portraits for over 400 people (and their furry friends 🐶 ), creating lasting memories for everyone involved. From professional studio portraits to delivering framed prints, Envision encapsulates the joy of seeing ourselves reflected through the lens of togetherness and community.
Event Type: WORKSHOP
2025-01-01 to 2025-02-03
East Bay Photo Collective
412 13th St, EBPCO Community Darkroom, Oakland, CA 94612
General Admission $195.00
For more information:
website: www.ebpco.org
This two day advanced workshop is reserved for registered users of the EBPCO darkroom who want to take their printing to the next level. You'll learn techniques to work more efficiently and effectively in the darkroom to get consistently good prints with vivid blacks, rich mid-tones, and sparkling highlights! Participants must bring an unopened 25 pack of Ilford RC 8x10 Pearl paper as well as a selection of 35mm negatives and darkroom prints made at the EBPCO darkroom to the first class. All other materials for this course are provided by EBPCO!
Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT
2025-01-05 to 2025-01-25
Casemore Gallery
1275 Minnesota Street, #102, San Francisco, CA 94107
Event is Free
For more information:
Click HERE to preview the photographs
Casemore Gallery is pleased to present Mercy, Give and Take, a group exhibition that explores the idea of opposition in the photographic works of John Gossage, Raymond Meeks, Awoiska van der Molen, Sean McFarland, and Aspen Mays.
The show pairs works from each of the included artists, with each pairing sharing common visual element -- buildings, landscapes, photographic tools -- but in markedly juxtaposed states, whether life or death, turmoil or serenity, idyll or menace, pushing up or giving way, or even transposal of space. In doing so, the viewer has the opportunity to look beyond the idea of opposition as having two parts, and ponder all that lies between.
Event Type: OPENING
2025-01-24 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
East Bay Photo Collective
312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210
Event is Free
For more information:
website: www.ebpco.org
Join us in celebrating the 2024 EBPCO member’s exhibition: MOMENTUM curated by Malcolm Wallace!
Event Type: OPENING
2025-01-25 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Far Out Gallery
3004 Taraval, @ 40th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116
Event is Free
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Includes work by David Stroud
Opening Reception Saturday, January 25 1-4pm Artists' Talk 2pm
Event Type: GRANTS
2025-01-12 to 2025-02-03 9:00 PM
Catchlight
2120 University Avenue, Ste. 311, Berkeley, CA 94704
Event is Free
For more information:
website: reportforamerica.submittable.com/submit/310201/2025-2026-rfa-corps-member-application
Apply to Become a Report for America Corps Member! Report for America (RFA) helps local newsrooms report on under-covered issues and communities by placing journalists at news outlets throughout the country. We are seeking talented, service-minded reporters and photographers to join our corps. As an RFA Corps Member, you’ll be a part of a movement to strengthen communities, and our democracy, through local journalism that is truthful, fair, fearless, and smart.
Report for America is a two-year program with an optional third year. The upcoming service year begins on July 7, 2025 and runs through July 6, 2026. Applications are now open for dozens of journalism positions in newsrooms of all types — digital startups, daily and weekly newspapers, radio and TV stations, a wire service and more. Check out our interactive database of job openings, newsrooms, and beats here and read our info page to make sure you are a good fit for the program. The deadline to apply is February 3, 2025, with references due by February 10, 2025.
Report for America is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Questions? Contact the Report for America recruitment team at recruitment@reportforamerica.org or join us for one of our virtual information sessions. You may register for an information session here.
Event Type: SHOW
2025-01-02 to 2025-01-31
San Ramon City Hall Gallery
7000 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon, CA 94583
Event is Free
Hours: Mon - Fri 8:30 AM-5:00 PM;
For more information:
email: info@sanramon.ca.gov
website: www.sanramon.ca.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=10826130&pageId=15209762
Event Type: OPENING
2025-02-05 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
City College of San Francisco Gallery Obscura
50 Frida Kahlo Way, Visual Arts Building Room 160, San Francisco, CA 94112
Event is Free
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Gallery Obscura is pleased to present this special exhibit of photographs by one of our very own alumni. Ernie Luppi graduated from CCSF with an Associate of Science degree in Photography in 1975. Now, fifty years later, Luppi’s beautiful gelatin silver prints will once again hang within the Photography Department where his creativity and passion for the darkroom were first unlocked.
Italia: 1981-2023 is a visual survey of Luppi’s extensive travels throughout Italy. Since 1981, he has visited the country on nine separate occasions, staying anywhere from two weeks to five months. Luppi was initially drawn to Italy by the pull of family and a desire to explore his heritage. A number of photographs in this exhibit were taken in the Lunigiana region of northwest Tuscany, specifically the town of Licciana Nardi, the birthplace of his paternal grandfather Ernesto Luppi. Ultimately, Luppi’s insatiable curiosity about the world and his keen photographic eye compelled him to keep exploring this familial place. During his most recent trip in 2023, Luppi photographed with a Holga camera—a medium-format plastic camera with limited exposure controls—to explore a different aesthetic in his images. Altogether, the 26 photographs in this exhibit portray the essence and beauty of Italy, the Italian people, and its rich culture through Luppi’s engaging portraits, street scenes, and urban landscapes.
On View: January 21, – March 24, 2025.
Event Type: OPENING
2025-02-01 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Institute of Contemporary Art - San Francisco
345 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
Event is Free
For more information:
website: www.icasanfrancisco.org
In collaboration with California College of the Arts, ICA SF invited CCA Graduate Fine Arts students to propose creative exhibitions in unconventional spaces around the museum. Jonah Reenders is the seventh CCA artist featured so far.
The earth has always kept its own time, long before modern man-made measuring techniques. Artist Jonah Reenders captured images of the striking Icelandic landscape on his recent trip there researching tephrochronology—the ability to map geological events using tephra, or volcanic ash. As the land was shaped by everything from massive volcanic eruptions and floods, to smaller phenomena like decaying insects and wildlife migration, a timeline stretching back billions of years emerged in the layers of earth beneath us.
In his solo exhibition TEPHRA/Garden of Fireflies, Reenders creates images of and with the land and its wildlife, imagining them as organic traces of a geologic record unaltered by humanity and questioning our increasingly removed relationship to the earth. In these delicate images, exhibited as a nontraditional timeline, viewers are confronted with our own relatively new existence within the context of deep time.
On view January 16–March 16, 2025.
Event Type: ONLINE VIDEO
2025-01-15 to 2025-01-29
Leica Store and Gallery
463 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
Event is Free
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As we enter the new year, one question looms large for all of us: What will this year bring? What kind of photography will you create? What moments will you capture, relationships will you nurture, or adventures will you embark on? We fill our calendars with plans, projects, and trips, but as photographers, one truth remains constant: our choices shape everything.
The choice to take the trip—or not. The choice to connect with others—or stay distant. The choice to show empathy—or turn away. The choice to press the shutter—or let the moment pass. The choice to make a difference in your community—or remain on the sidelines. Every moment is defined by the decisions we make.
Demondre, shares the thoughtful choices he makes each day as a photographer—deciding which shot to take, which streets to explore, what time of day to head out, which photographic tool to bring. These seemingly small decisions can sometimes feel overwhelming, but they are the building blocks of his craft. We hope Dre’s story and this film inspire you to embrace your own choices this year. To not only capture moments but to make a difference in your community and tell your unique story through photography.
Here’s to 2025 and the stories we’ll create together.
Event Type: ARTIST TALK
2025-01-22 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Sarah Shepard Gallery
Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Cir, Larkspur, CA 94939
Event is Free
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Hungarian-American, lens-based artist Dora Somosi will be at the Gallery to share remarks, provide an intimate gallery tour, and sign copies of her limited edition monograph, By Her Side, which features unique prints from her series of the same name, the focus of Sarah Shepard Gallery’s exhibition Understory, In Blue.
Join us for pastries, coffee and a chance to meet the artist. Remarks at 10:00am
Understory, In Blue, is a solo exhibition of Somosi’s lens-based work, in collaboration with 3walls, a Brooklyn-based art advisory and pop-up gallery that seeks out local, emerging artists.
The exhibition features a collection of cyanotypes produced from digital negatives captured at the homes and studios of influential female artists and thinkers, along with four unique hand-embroidered cyanotypes from Somosi’s Mending series.
The prints present bewitching, blue trees, which act as surrogate subjects for the women who once reveled in their beauty.
With the trees as witness to each respective woman’s greatness and creativity, Somosi’s cyanotypes transcribe, honor, and memorialize that fleeting and intimate testimony, becoming mnemonic devices of a great mind: a great woman.
Somosi’s “photographic blueprints,” as she calls them—a literal and allegorical reference to color, ideology, and the technical trace of shape and space captured by a cyanotype—bear witness to the legacies of women such as Agnes Martin, Ana Mendieta, Anni Albers, Edith Heath, Emily Dickinson, Helen Frankenthaler, and Ruth Asawa.
Through Somosi’s reverence for mark-making, careful seeing and thinking, and artistic process, Understory, In Blue offers a consequential veneration for the enormously important work and ideas pioneered by the women featured.
Event Type: READ
2025-01-17 to 2025-01-31
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The photos on Bill Delzell’s laptop screen are a vibrant portal into late 1960s San Francisco, one of the most pivotal and colorful times in Bay Area history.
There’s Carlos Santana, performing so early in his career that his hair is short. A formation of baton-wielding police advance down a San Francisco State pathway. And along with the photos of multicolored Volkswagens, Black Panthers rallies, and counterculture celebrities including Timothy Leary and Jerry Garcia, there are 75 unprocessed rolls of film containing 2,700 more unknown treasures.
Event Type: OPENING
2025-01-29 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Image Flow
328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960
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At 6:30PM - Arthur Drooker in conversation with Susan Schneider Williams
The photographs in this exhibition are from Thirty-Six Views of the Golden Gate Bridge, a series inspired by 19th century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, who created Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, a series of landscape prints that show the sacred mountain from various locations, in different seasons, and in all kinds of weather. Nearly two hundred years later, I applied Hokusai’s artistic concept to making photographs of San Francisco’s defining landmark.
More than an act of emulation, this series is an exercise in seeing. It answers a question I asked myself: Is it possible to see the most photographed bridge in the world anew? I followed three rules: make no postcard shots; make only black and white photos to emphasize the bridge’s fabled form; and lastly, make photos from unusual vantage points that place the bridge in context with its environment.
After photographing the Golden Gate Bridge intensively for two years, I indeed came to see it anew. What I found most impressive, even more than the span’s status as an engineering and architectural icon, is its power as a symbol of possibility.
When it was first proposed, naysayers declared there was no way to build what was then the tallest and longest suspension bridge in the world over such a treacherous strait. Undaunted, Joseph Strauss, the Golden Gate’s visionary chief engineer, replied, “Our world today revolves completely around things which at one time couldn’t be done because they were supposedly beyond the limits of human endeavor. Don’t be afraid to dream.” I dedicate Thirty-Six Views of the Golden Gate Bridge to this spirit of possibility.
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2025-01-17 to 2025-01-31
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, Fremont, CA 94539
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Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES
2025-01-17 to 2025-01-22 9:00 PM
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