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Event Type: SHOW
2024-11-08 to 2025-03-31
Oakland Museum California
1000 Oak Street, at 10th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Adults 18-64 $19.00, 65+ $16.00, 13-17, students, educators $12.00
Hours: Wed - Thu 11:00 AM-5:00 PM; Fri 11:00 AM-9:00 PM; Sat - Sun 10:00 PM-6:00 PM;
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Experience the diverse voices of California's Indigenous peoples as they shape the present and future through the lens of celebrated Indigenous photographer Dugan Aguilar.
OMCA's latest exhibition, Born of the Bear Dance: Dugan Aguilarâ's Photographs of Native California offers guests a first look at a significant collection that highlights Indigenous endurance and explores the vivid tapestry of contemporary Indigenous California life.
Aguilar's work, spanning from 1982 to 2018, defies colonial narratives and captures instead an unwavering Indigenous presence and dynamic cultural practices. His powerful images document a rich array of Indigenous experiences, from the breathtaking California landscapes to gatherings, ceremonies, and the artistry of basket weaving.
This collection honors and showcases moments of profound cultural significance and weaves together the stories of resilience and unyielding vitality that define contemporary Native life. More than simple documents, his photographs radiate a sense of quiet but determined celebration and resistance. Drawing from Aguilar's extensive photographic archive, gifted to OMCA by his family in 2022, the exhibition brings these images to life through video, audio, and narratives from Indigenous artists, activists, elders, and community members.
Event Type: FESTIVAL
2025-03-28 12:00 PM to 2025-03-30 4:00 PM
Center for Photographic Art
San Carlos at 9th Avenue, At the Sunset Center, Carmel, CA 93921
Event is Free
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The Center for Photographic Art is pleased to announce PhotoCarmel: A Celebration of Photography on the Central Coast. This month-long celebration of photography will be a community event and will be held March 28 - May 4, 2025. CPA is excited to kick off this celebration on Friday, March 28, with keynote speaker, Richard Misrach! On Saturday, March 29, CPA will have portfolio reviews and a reception for our annual Members' Show. A Sunday workshop with legendary photographers and collaborators, Brian Taylor and Ted Orland is not to be missed. Stay tuned for more details about these events at the Center for Photographic Art
Following our kick-off weekend at the Center for Photographic Art, several other community galleries, museums, and venues will join us by exhibiting photography throughout the month of April and throughout the spring season. We are thrilled for all of our PhotoCarmel partnerships on the Central Coast of California. The events, openings, exhibitions, and community participation enhances the diversity of offerings and strengthens our collective efforts in fostering a deeper appreciation and understanding of photography as an art form and its place in today’s culture.
Event Type: SHOW
2024-11-14 to 2025-04-07
Mission Bowling Club
3176 17th Street, In the dinning room, San Francisco, CA 94110
Event is Free
Hours: Tue - Wed 4:00 PM-10:00 PM; Thu - Fri 3:00 PM-12:00 AM; Sat 11:00 AM-12:00 AM; Sun 11:00 AM-8:00 PM;
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Rusty Weston’s environmental-style portraits of people who live or work in the San Francisco Mission District will be exhibited in a solo show called de la Misión at the Mission Bowling Club.
The opening reception is 6-8 pm on Nov 14th.
Event Type: SHOW
2024-09-28 to 2025-04-13
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118
Adult (aproximate) $38.95, 3-17 (aprox) $29.95, student & 65+ (aprox) $33.95
Hours: Mon - Sat 9:30 AM-5:00 PM; Sun 11:00 AM-5:00 PM;
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A black bear emerges from the inky North Carolina night to investigate a well-lit back porch. A kelp plant succumbs to an urchin invasion. An orphaned baby wombat and a veterinary student relish a nose-to-nose nuzzle at a sanctuary outside Melbourne. Golden light bathes a monarch butterfly-cloaked forest. A school of tadpoles becomes a soaring squadron when seen from below. A long exposure transforms an Alaskan wolf into an ethereal specter.
Each of the winning images in the BigPicture: Natural World Photography exhibition enshrines a fleeting moment that might otherwise escape our attention.
NOTE: pricing is approximate because admission depends on when you buy the ticket, time of day and other factors .
Event Type: SHOW
2024-12-01 to 2025-03-31
GLBT Historical Museum
4127 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
General Admission $10.00, Youth, 65+ ,students, teachers $6.00
Hours: Mon - Sat 11:00 AM-6:00 PM; Sun 12:00 PM-5:00 PM;
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The GLBT Historical Society Museum presents Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS, a powerful photography exhibition by San Francisco-based photographer Roslyn Banish. Featuring 16 poignant portraits and first-person testimonies, the exhibition explores the human experience of HIV/AIDS, emphasizing resilience, community, and advocacy.
Event Type: OPENING
2025-04-12 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street, Oakland, CA 94601
Event is Free
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We are excited to announce this visually stunning photo show dedicated to exploring the beauty, emotion, and symbolism of the various dimensions of purple through the lens of the camera.
Event Type: BOOK SIGNING
2025-04-05 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Harvey Milk Photography Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
Event is Free
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SALT OF THE EARTH – A Visual Odyssey of a Transforming Landscape. Photographs by Barbara Boissevain Writing by John Hart, Michael Honegger, Laura Noble, and Elliott White Jr., Ph.D.
Twenty years ago, in the South Bay region of San Francisco, the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project was established to address the impact of human activity on the diminished marshes of the Bay and the role wetlands play in protecting vulnerable communities from sea level rise. This expansive environmental project is the largest tidal wetland restoration project on the West Coast and is dedicated to converting over 15,000 acres of commercial salt ponds at the south end of San Francisco Bay to a mix of tidal marsh, mudflat, and other wetland habitats.
Since the 1800s, the ecosystems of the tidal marshes have been replaced by salt ponds, and in her new book, Salt of the Earth: A Visual Odyssey of a Transforming Landscape (Kehrer), California-based photographer Barbara Boissevain documents the efforts being made to return these spaces to their natural state.
Event Type: SHOW
2025-02-27 to 2025-04-12
Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary St, 4th floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
Event is Free
Hours: Tue - Fri 10:30 AM-5:30 PM; Sat 11:00 AM-5:00 PM;
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Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Sophie Calle. Making its U.S. debut will be selections from Unfinished, a series focused on projects that Calle had previously begun and abandoned. The series collects photographs, handwritten notes, video excerpts, comic books, and other documents, pairing these materials with Calle’s short text describing the artwork she had originally imagined and how it came to (not) be. The exhibition will also feature a selection of photographs Calle made at the Musée National Picasso in Paris during the pandemic, depicting paintings from the museum’s collection hidden by protective sheets or coverings. The series was included in Calle’s 2023 solo exhibition at Musée National Picasso, À toi de faire, ma mignonne, and will be shown for the first time in the U.S.
Event Type: SHOW
2025-01-29 to 2025-04-04
The Image Flow
328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960
Event is Free
Hours: Mon - Fri 10:00 AM-6:00 PM;
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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.
Book Signing and Opening: January 29, 2025, 6–8 PM. Special Conversation: with Susan Schneider William at 6:30 PM
Event Type: WORKSHOP
2025-01-24 to 2025-04-05
Bradley Print Services
566 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Event is Free
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Saturday, April 5, 2025, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Join Jason Bradley for an insightful iPhone workshop where you'll learn how to maximize your device's potential. Discover tips and tricks for photography, editing, and optimizing your iPhone experience. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user, this workshop is designed to elevate your skills!
Event Type: SHOW
2025-02-08 to 2025-03-30
Bolinas Museum
48 Wharf Road, Photography Gallery, Bolinas, CA 94924
Event is Free
Hours: Fri 1:00 PM-5:00 PM; Sat - Sun 12:00 PM-5:00 PM;
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Born in San Francisco, Mary Daniel Hobson has been pursuing photography for over thirty years. With training as an art historian and a graduate degree in Surrealism, Hobson was inspired to combine photography with mixed media. Whether building layered collages, creating intricate still lives, or bottling photographs in mineral oil, Hobson consistently explores layered experiences and inner geographies. Uniting all of her work is an embedded belief that artwork can convey the complexity of our psychological existence and help us make sense of and navigate an ever-shifting world.
Event Type: CLASS
2025-02-19 to 2025-04-08
ImageCentral
1099 E Street, Hayward, CA 94541
Non-Resident $210.00, Resident $200.00
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Master portrait lighting in this hands-on class! Learn techniques for posing and light setup, progressing from one to five light configurations. Experience live demonstrations of various lighting scenarios with a model!
Activity meeting dates: Four sessions, Apr 8, 2025 - Apr 29, 2025, Tue 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type: CLASS
2025-02-01 to 2025-03-30
East Bay Photo Collective
412 13th St, EBPCO Darkroom, Oakland, CA 94607-4210
General Admission $65.00
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website: www.ebpco.org
Sunday, March 30, 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Get that pile of black & white darkroom prints out of the box in your closet! In this one day workshop, an instructor will guide you through a variety of darkroom print finishing techniques. Topics covered include hand-retouching (aka spotting), pressing, and dry-mounting prints. Bring your own darkroom prints to work with for this workshop or use some of ours. All other materials for this workshop are provided by EBPCO!
Event Type: WORKSHOP
2025-03-30 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Center for Photographic Art
San Carlos at 9th Avenue, Babcock Room, Sunset Center, Carmel, CA 93921
General Admission $350.00, CPA Members $300.00
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Publishing your work in book form can be a rewarding experience, but it can also be fraught with confusion and stress. In this one-day workshop with artist Carolyn Drake, participants will take a deep dive into the creative, conceptual, and practical aspects of photo book publishing. The workshop will begin with a close reading of a selection of existing, carefully crafted books, and consider questions like: What ways have photographers used the book form to enhance or transform the meaning of their work? How can you draw inspiration from existing books and apply it to your own? At what point do you approach publishers? How much design or text does your work require?
Drake will also share her experiences with the six books she has published, from the highlights and disasters of self-publishing to the benefits and challenges of working with established publishers.
What to bring: • 20 - 60 cheaply printed photographs, plus outtakes if possible (can be in digital form) • These can be from a single project or several. • It doesn’t have to be a finished project - works in progress are okay.
Event Type: OPENING
2025-04-05 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bolinas Museum
48 Wharf Road, Bolinas, CA 94924
Event is Free
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3 – 4 PM Talks 4 – 5 PM Reception
Terri Loewenthal uses a unique optical technique to create luminous, otherworldly photographs that reimagine the genre of landscape photography. Her starting point for this exhibition is the natural beauty of Mount Tamalpais, to which she brings her own personal and idiosyncratic sense of color and form. Loewenthal’s photographs are, as she states, “not a ’made-up’ image, but rather one that reflects the truth of countless multiplicities: the human capacity for intimacy with land; our connection to a reality that is not merely factual but also arises from emotion and imagination; and our longing for wild, transformative experiences within and without the psyche.”
On View April 5 - June 8, 2025.
Event Type: ARTIST TALK
2025-04-05 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Chung 24 Gallery
698 Pennsylvania Ave, San Francisco, CA 94107
Event is Free
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Event Type: SHOW
2025-02-07 to 2025-04-12
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;
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website: www.photographywest.com
In memory of Paul Caponigro (1911-2024), Photography West is exhibiting a number of rare original gelatin silver masterworks individually handmade by the artist from 5×7 format film.
Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES
2025-02-07 to 2025-04-12 11:59 PM
The Image Flow
328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960
Up to 5 images $35.00
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3rd Annual Queer Conscience Group Photography Exhibition Dates: June 14 – September 12, 2025
Juried by: Brian Paul Clamp (Director, CLAMP NYC), Nathan Lomas, and The Image Flow Staff
The Image Flow invites photographic artists closely tied to the LGBTQIA2+ community to submit work to our 3rd Annual juried photography exhibition Queer Conscience 2025.
We probably don’t need to inform you that queer rights are under attack unlike ever before. Abuses of power – ranging from executive orders that strictly define federally recognized gender identities to state resolutions seeking to overturn marriage equality – find our political leaders fomenting fascist ideologies in order to divide the working class and create a scapegoat of our queer neighbors.
Queer Conscience seeks to push back against these forces and affirm our own truths through the photographic medium. In this juried exhibition set to coincide with Pride month, we ask queer artists to express their resistance, and share their truest queer journeys with us. Join us in celebrating our community and our creativity with a clear conscience.
Eligibility
This call is open to all photographers who consider themselves members of the LGBTQIA2+ community; we cherish and love our straight friends and allies, but for this exhibit, we hope to amplify queer voices.
This national call for entry is open to all photographic artists living or working in the United States and its territories. All entries must be original works of art and entirely the work of the entrant. Accepted entries will be exhibited at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA, and in our online gallery.
All accepted artwork must be framed to professional standards.
Event Type: FUND RAISER
2025-04-01 3:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Harvey Milk Photography Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
Event is Free
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We are having a sale of photo equipment donated to the Harvey Milk Photo Center.
Darkroom equipment, framing supplies, photo books, digital and film cameras, all formats, lots of miscellaneous accessories and more! More items posted on our IG story @harveymilkphotocenter
Event Type: SHOW
2025-03-03 to 2025-03-31
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
My Immigrant’s journey to the Bay Area mimics the nature of water in many ways. Adaptability, assuming forms, fast, flexibility to move at different speeds, ability to dissolve, assimilate and the list goes on…One nature of water, its ability to take on any color (reflection if you will) and structure of its surroundings, is the most important way it brings harmony into the nature.
It is this nature of being harmonious with surroundings, the greatest asset of a successful immigrant, which when I reflect back on my life, has motivated me to create these metaphorical series of works.
The series will include samples of such colors, patterns, forms and structures water can reflect presented as abstracts of my life.
-Sriharsha Annadore
Event Type: LECTURE
2025-04-06 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
PhotoAlliance
Bayfront Theater, Fort Mason, Landmark Building B, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94123
General Admission $20.00, Students $.00
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Our Spring Lecture Series continues at Bayfront Theatre on Sunday, April 6 with Tara Sellios and Julie Blankenship, discussing themes of impermanence, memory, and identity. Both artists employ distinctive media to uncover deep and thought-provoking narratives.
Tara Sellios, celebrated for her emotive still-life photography, contemplates the fragility of life and the passage of time. Julie Blankenship, known for blending found photographs with mixed media, explores the intersection of personal and collective memory, inviting reflection on how we shape our identities through imagery.
This special evening promises to be an inspiring exploration of how visual storytelling can transform fleeting moments into lasting, meaningful reflections on the human experience.
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Students are always welcome to attend PhotoAlliance lectures for free, please tell our check-in volunteer you are a student and show your school ID. There is no need for students to pre-register for a ticket in advance.
Event Type: OPENING
2025-04-03 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Dolby Chadwick Gallery
210 Post Street, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94108
Event is Free
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Dolby Chadwick Gallery is thrilled to present Glass + Light, an exhibition of new work by Amanda Means.
Amanda Means’ photography transforms ordinary household objects into “sublime Minimal art” using unique and innovative methods to create vivid, luminescent prints. Tantamount among these is her series of incandescent light bulbs rendered in evocative and extraordinary color. To create these works, Means places an incandescent light bulb in front of a light box. She manipulates the color filters on the light box, the temperature of the light, and the duration of the exposure. The result is a stunning array of color combinations, each with glowing luminosity, vibrating energy, and harmony.
For Means, this journey elicited a visceral connection to the glowing light and sublime color emanating from these photos. These sensual, energy-filled glimmering globes bring both warmth and cool, serenity and effervescence to the viewer. The work, even while depicting manufactured objects, bears a strong connection to the phenomena of the natural world: the setting sun, the otherworldly light of the eclipse, the blood moon with its coppery red hues. Means is captivated by how the mysterious presence of these cosmic forces can be captured in the most unremarkable places — in a glass of water, a mass-produced light bulb, or the cracked and crushed surface of black and white photographic paper.
On view April 3–April 26, 2025
Event Type: CONFERENCE
2025-04-12 -
UC Berkeley School of Journalism
International House UC Berkeley, 2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720-2316
Event is Free
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As part of the symposium join us for a very special open house! at the Bancroft Library April 11, 2025 | 1-4 p.m. | The Bancroft Library. Visitors will have the opportunity to see important, rare, beautiful, and provocative photo books. Explore early canonical photo books from the Reva and David Logan Photobook Collection, along with newer titles from the Art History/Classics Library’s collections donated by Richard Sun.
Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT
2025-02-27 to 2025-04-12
Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary St, 4th floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
Event is Free
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Sophie Calle’s series Catalogue Raisonné of the Unfinished is featured in her current exhibition at Fraenkel Gallery, on view through April 12, 2025. The series collects photographs, handwritten notes, comic books, and other relics, each paired with a short text describing the artwork Calle had originally imagined and how it came to (not) be. Together, the series reveals glimpses of Calle’s process and thinking, and celebrates the transformation of many dead ends into a final positive form.
Event Type: CLASS
2025-03-01 to 2025-04-05
Looking Glass Photographic Outfitters
2239 Fifth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
Event is Free
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As a small way to pay it forward, we’re offering a special gift: Backyard Birds: Tips & Tricks, a 5-week online photography course, completely free. Led by Jen Waicukauski, this live Zoom series has been celebrated by past students. We’ll explore not just photographing our avian neighbors, but also how we can notice the natural wonders in our local spaces and begin to understand the world from the birds perspective. We will discuss habits and habitats to learn how we can make space for more birds in our lives and our yards. We’ll cover how to be photo-ready for the moments our winged friends arrive, quick to get our images and be respectful of both the birds and our bodies (long lenses are heavy and learning how to move with them so they are more asset than burden is all part of enjoying our craft for as long as we can).
So if watching birds, making art and connecting with nature sounds good to you, join us. We believe it is great for our mental health and an excellent method of combating anxiety and depression, during challenging times like these.
No worries if you can’t make each of the five sessions, we’ll record each one so you can “rewind” it for 30-days after the session takes place.
When: Five Saturdays—April 5, 12, 19, 26 & May 3 Time: 9:00 AM (90-minute sessions) Where: Live on Zoom (recordings available) Cost: Normally $249—now FREE, as a thank you!
Photography has always been about connection—both to the world around us and to one another. We hope this class brings you as much joy as your support has brought us.
Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES
2025-03-01 to 2025-04-06
Random Posts
, Fremont, CA 94539
Event is Free
For more information:
website: douglasgstinson.com
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Showcase your skills and talent along with other amazing photographers like yourself. Photographs will be juried by well-respected professionals.
Selected entries may go on sale during the California State Fair. Your entry could earn you the prized golden bear trophy and a cash award!
Event Type: SHOW
2025-02-27 to 2025-04-05
Jessica Silverman Gallery
621 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108
Event is Free
Hours: Tue - Sat 11:00 AM-6:00 PM;
For more information:
email: info@jessicasilvermangallery.com
website: http://jessicasilvermangallery.com
Jessica Silverman is pleased to announce Catherine Wagner: Reel to Real, the San Francisco-based artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view February 27 to April 5, 2025. The exhibition features two bodies of work that restage physical sites of our collective imaginations. These include Wagner’s new series Moving Pictures, exploring the film archive at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), alongside never-before-seen photographs from Architecture of Reassurance, her historic 1995 series capturing Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Paris, and Tokyo. These curious and often humorous images confront enchantments promised by the twentieth century’s most iconic visual landscapes. Through Wagner’s lens, “Reel to Real” takes us behind the scenes, lifting the curtain on cinematic smoke and mirrors.
Event Type: SHOW
2025-03-02 to 2025-03-31
Dance Palace
503 B Street, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
Event is Free
Hours: Mon - Fri 9:00 AM-3:00 PM; Sat - Sun 12:00 AM-12:00 AM;
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This month in the Lobby Art Gallery, we present the artwork of Will Felch.
Join us for an art reception on March 8, from 12-2pm.
Stinson Beach resident Will Felch will show recent photos of butterflies and their companions in nature, including dragonflies, wasps, and bees, as well as the stunning flowers they pollinate. Photographs from West Marin, as well as the Sierras, East Coast, and Costa Rica.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am-3pm
Event Type: WORKSHOP
2025-03-02 to 2025-04-12 12:00 PM
East Bay Photo Collective
412 13th Street, EBPCO Community Darkroom, Oakland, CA 94612-4210
General Admission $70.00
For more information:
website: www.ebpco.org
Discover the time-honored technique of developing film negatives with the power of plants! In this one day workshop, participants will be immersed in the magic of alternative photography where art, science, and nature converge by working with developer brews made from California native and non-native plants. Participants must bring two rolls of exposed 35mm black & white film to process during the workshop. All other materials are provided by EBPCO.
SATURDAY, APRIL 12TH - 12 - 3:30PM
Event Type: WORKSHOP
2025-03-02 to 2025-04-13 3:00 PM
East Bay Photo Collective
312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210
General Admission $60.00
For more information:
website: www.ebpco.org
This one-day workshop is for those who are comfortable operating their cameras but new to studio lighting! Participants will be introduced to the fundamentals by creating a variety of lit scenes and set ups. This workshop will focus on the still life, using opaque objects and a variety of continuous lighting tools so that participants can understand and apply basic lighting principles for professional results in their own images. Participants must bring their own SLR or DSLR cameras and any chargers, SD cards, or film required to operate them. All other materials for this workshop are provided by EBPCO.
SUNDAY, APRIL 13TH - 3-6PM
Event Type: SHOW
2025-03-02 to 2025-03-31
Depot Book Store and Cafe
87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941
Event is Free
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Working in abstraction allows the fullest expression of my life. Prolific and driven to get out the complex emotions that words fail to express. I use colors to set the tone and lines the movement. Together they tell my narrative.
For two decades, Dana Christensen has photographed the natural world, beautiful as well as distressed, as everything tells a story. Her work combines alternate materials with her photography—silk muslin, translucent vellum, layered images and paint to bring depth, dimension and luminescence.
Event Type: SHOW
2025-03-06 to 2025-04-09
Wessling Contemporary
39 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94108
Event is Free
Hours: Wed - Thu 12:00 PM-5:30 PM; Fri - Sat 12:00 PM-4:00 PM;
For more information:
website: wessling.com
Wessling Contemporary Presents Thomas Heinser’s Zwischenraum: The Realm of Tension Between Humanity and the Environment
The exhibition features Heinser’s large scale aerial landscape photographs juxtaposed with his intimate portraits of people who depend on, but are also wholly disconnected from, those same landscapes.
“Zwischenraum,” from the German, means “the space between two objects.” But that literal definition misses the nuance and complexity that imbues the word with a deeper significance: That “space between” can be filled with tension, confusion, longing, disdain, or many other metaphysical states, and it is also physically undefined, meaning it can be a great distance or a minuscule gap, which could either be filled to overflowing or entirely devoid.
The distance between us, and the landscape we’ve shaped to support our society, is a remarkable field that can only be felt when we view those landscapes, as Heinser has, from above and from a great distance, side-by-side with how we view ourselves as human beings. The landscapes he captures – in which we’ve consciously and purposefully shaped the environment – comes off as hardened and rigid on the surface, but upon closer examination reveals a Potemkin bulwark that is actually quite porous and susceptible to the inexorable forces of nature. Conversely, Heinser’s portraits express, on their face, the emotions and passions of human beings – yet we all know that beneath the surface of every photo lie a complicated mosaic of experience and challenges that are not at all readily apparent to either the casual viewer, or even the probing lens of the portrait photographer.
The landscapes, made over the course of many years by Heinser, shot from helicopters using a high-resolution camera, are studies in abstraction, meticulously composed by the artist but with random gestures provided by nature. Heinser’s portraits, on the other hand, are often captured spontaneously or in a moment when the subject has momentarily dropped their guard. Are these subjects thinking of their relationship with the salt ponds, burn scars, and airport tarmacs pictured by Heinser? They most certainly are not, and, just as the landscapes are oblivious to the human beings who are temporarily shaping them. Therein lies the “Zwischenraum:” Two entities existing side-by-side, interacting in intimate or detached ways, with only occasional intersections, collisions really, of their interests and intents.
Opening Reception Thursday, March 6, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Event Type: CLASS
2025-03-02 to 2025-04-08
ImageCentral
1099 E Street, Hayward, CA 94541
Non-Resident $210.00, Resident $200.00
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April 8, 2025 to April 29, 2025 Tue 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Master portrait lighting in this hands-on class! Learn techniques for posing and light setup, progressing from one to five light configurations. Experience live demonstrations of various lighting scenarios with a model!
Event Type: ONLINE ARTIST TALK
2025-04-10 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
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Click HERE to Register before April 9 at 6:00pm . You will receive a zoom link the evening before the talk.
Join us for a conversation with Jonathan Michael Castillo, a visual artist, photographer, and educator. Castillo’s work explores social issues through documentary and fine art photography, earning him recognition such as the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues (2019-2021). His photographs have been featured in The New Yorker, Wired, The Chicago Tribune, and on BBC’s World Update, among others.
Castillo’s recent commissions include a large-scale permanent installation at O’Hare International Airport as part of the Terminal Five expansion project and work for the City of Chicago’s Citywide Plan in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Planning and Development. His exhibitions span prestigious venues such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Aperture Gallery, and the Center for Creative Photography.
This discussion, moderated by Becky Brister, Chair of the Monterey Peninsula College Photography Department, will delve into Castillo’s artistic process, his exploration of contemporary social narratives, and the impact of photography in shaping public discourse. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights into Castillo’s compelling visual storytelling and his contributions to contemporary photography.
Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES
2025-03-04 to 2025-03-31 11:59 PM
The Image Flow
328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960
Event is Free
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We’re excited to announce our Photo of the Month competition for March: Impact!
Submission is free, and only images uploaded this month are eligible. The winning image will be featured in our gallery, newsletter, and social media—plus, the winner will receive a $100 gift certificate to The Image Flow and a 16×20 giclée paper print of their winning image. Two honorable mentions will receive a 16×20 giclée paper print of their winning image.
Photography Competition Theme
The world is shifting, and we’re capturing it—for better or worse. This month, we’re looking for images that showcase Impact. From political movements and social change to environmental shifts and cultural moments, tell the story of how we shape the world—and how it shapes us.
Show us innovation, destruction, resilience, or the strange and unexpected ways people, society, and industry collide. Whether it’s the energy of a protest, the scars of a changing landscape, or a community rebuilding, document the good, the bad, and everything in between.
Event Type: SHOW
2025-03-03 to 2025-04-03
Diablo Valley College Art Gallery
321 Golf Club Road, Art Quad, Room A305, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Event is Free
Hours: Mon - Wed 9:00 AM-4:00 PM; Thu - Fri 9:00 AM-1:00 PM;
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Nicole White’s latest exhibition captures the essence of a uniquely serene and introspective Italy, born from her experience during the DVC study abroad program in Florence in early 2022. Amid the absence of tourists, she discovered a version of the city that was both somber and spectacular, inspiring her to explore the interplay between reality and representation. Through her lens, White contemplates history, time, light, belief, and permanence, crafting images that ground her—and the viewer—in the profound beauty of the phenomenological. Don’t miss this evocative collection that bridges the seen and the unseen, on display now at the DVC Gallery.
Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES
2025-03-07 to 2025-03-31 5:00 PM
Random Posts
400 Aviation Blvd, Suite 100, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Event is Free
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In celebration of our 60+ beautiful Sonoma County Regional Parks, the Sonoma County Parks Foundation is hosting a spring 2025 photo contest as a fundraiser to benefit Regional Parks.
Winning photos will be featured on the Sonoma County Parks Foundation website, newsletters, social media, and some winning photos will also be featured in our 2026 calendar. The contest begins Saturday, March 1st and will end Monday, March 31st at 5:00 p.m. We welcome entries from any resident or visitor in Sonoma County, regardless of skill level or experience.
Event Type: CLASS
2025-04-06 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
282 High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472
General Admission $85.00
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Back by popular demand! Learn how to make (not take) great photos to enjoy, create memories, and capture those life moments. All iPhones are welcome (android phones also, but we demonstrate with an iPhone). It does not have to be the latest rendition. This class is for all levels of photographical experience. We will discuss, and demonstrate:
The settings, filters, exposure, focus, shutter speeds, lenses (yes you do have lens choices on the phone camera), panoramas, macro and close ups, portraits, and videos. All will be presented with an eye towards creativity and compositional power and considerations.
Event Type: GALLERY TALK
2025-04-10 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Stanford University
550 Jane Stanford Way, Hoover Tower, Lou Henry Hoover Gallery, Stanford, CA 94305
Event is Free
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website: www.hoover.org
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invite you to a gallery talk with Exhibition Curation & Design Manager Marissa Rhee about Sightseeing at Wars End: World War II as seen in the Bellantoni Papers.
n conjunction with our exhibition The Battalion Artist: A Sailor’s Journey Through the South Seas, join us for this free talk about US Navy Seabee Natale Bellantoni’s time at the end of WWII on Okinawa.
The 82-day battle for Okinawa in World War II lasted from April to June 1945. The 78th Seabees spent much of that time aboard the USS J. Franklin Bell until they finally landed on June 17th. Among them was their battalion artist, Natale Bellantoni, who would spend the next six months on the island working and exploring. Over 200 photographs in Bellantoni’s papers reveal what he saw and in this talk Marissa Rhee will share many of them. She will explore what life was like for the Seabee on Okinawa, his perceptions of the locals he encountered, and contrast Bellantoni’s record of the island with other accounts from the time. Very few photographic records during this end of war transition period on Okinawa exist in such breadth and innocence as are in the Bellantoni papers, giving attendees rare access to the sights of a destroyed island and its population void of government objectives.
Following the event, the Library & Archives invite guests to explore The Battalion Artist and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining a Century exhibitions.
Event Type: LECTURE
2025-04-09 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Stanford University
557 Escondido Mall, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford, CA 94305
Event is Free
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Join us for a talk by visiting artist Sohei Nishino followed by remarks and reflections on the artist’s work by a distinguished group of panelists including cultural historian Abby Smith Rumsey; poet and Stanford lecturer in creative writing, Sara Michas-Martin; and associate professor of the history of the built environment at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Albert Narath. The program will conclude with a panel discussion and Q&A facilitated by art historian and Stanford ITALIC Associate Director Kim Beil and David Rumsey Map Center staff.
Event Type: READ
2025-03-22 to 2025-04-05
Random Posts
, Fremont, CA 94539
Event is Free
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website: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973390/low-light-darkroom-photography-lab
Click HERE to read the full article
Aficionados of film photography will soon be able to access a new photo lab opening in San Francisco. Low Light Darkroom, a nonprofit, volunteer-led lab opening in Union Square, will offer studio time for emerging and seasoned photographers to develop their own film and make their own black-and-white or color prints.
The collective’s grand opening, on March 22, includes music sets by local DJs, libations by Madre Mezcal and art by Bay Area painter Charlie Ertola. Low Light Darkroom will showcase photography by San Francisco artist Minnette Lehmann.
Low Light Darkroom hopes to meet the needs of photographers familiar with developing film and making prints, and are ready for a more hands-on approach. Producing one’s own color prints is easier said than done these days; only a few photo labs in the Bay Area provide public access to color darkroom printing, like Photo Laundry in the Mission. (For off-site developing, Low Light recommends full-service film labs like Underdog, which has drop-offs at San Francisco’s Glass Key.)
Visitors to Saturday’s grand opening will be able to explore the darkroom and collective space, which will operate on a membership model. Memberships to the darkroom are currently priced in tiers based on how many hours photographers anticipate using the space.
Event Type: SHOW
2025-03-22 to 2025-04-01
Random Posts
corner of Jones and Ellis Streets, San Francisco, CA
Event is Free
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On the corner of Jones and Ellis Streets in San Francisco, there’s an open-air art gallery filled with images of the very people who reside in the Tenderloin.
One block from Glide Memorial Church, right behind the sign that designates the area as Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, the images cover an entire building. The series of three-by-four-foot, black-and-white photos show residents from nearby SROs celebrating birthdays, customers patronizing local stores and folks who sleep on the streets, simply living.
The project is the work of photographer Harry Williams.
Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES
2025-03-29 to 2025-04-11
Photoworks SF
2279 Market St, at Noe St., San Francisco, CA 94114
Event is Free
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High/Low is the theme of the third edition of Photoworks Guest magazine! There's the physicality of high/low (i.e. tall buildings or underground), you can also think of this figuratively as in personal highs and lows. You can also think of how this applies to the world at large like high points/low points. Or you may have a different interpretation altogether! Whatever high/low means to you, we are asking people to submit 3 to 5 photos that fit one or the other - high OR low, whichever one resonates more with you.
Event Type: OPENING
2025-04-04 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
East Bay Photo Collective
312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210
Event is Free
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website: www.ebpco.org
Announcing EBPCO’s upcoming exhibition: Spaces & Faces: A Portrait of the Bay Area, in partnership with @pamplemousse.magazine!
The photos will be on display April 4, 2025 through May 25, 2025.
This exhibition is at its core an extension of Pamplemousse Magazine’s mission to support emerging artists and provide a platform for photographers who shoot film to share their work.
Curated by Pamplemousse founder Nora Lalle and Associate Editor Camilia Gutiérrez Cordova the exhibition pulls inspiration from Pamplemousse’s Spring release: THE BALANCE ISSUE, specifically the exploration of different types of portraiture.
This group exhibition brings together five photographers, each with their own unique style and perspective. The juxtaposition of portraits of places (spaces!) and portraits of people (faces!), creates a well BALANCED overall portrait of the Bay Area. With a mix of street photography, landscapes and traditional portraits (all shot on film!), the exhibition aims to immerse viewers into the experience of what it’s like to live here.
Featuring work by: Joanna Malpica @joannalmalpica Angela Marlaud @fantastikplastic Bejan Siavoshy @bigbej Marcus Valderrama @macvaldee Demondre Ward @dre.wick
Opening Reception and Magazine Release Party Friday, April 4th, 6-9pm.
Event Type: OPENING
2025-04-05 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Jack Fischer Gallery - Minnesota St
1275 Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 94107
Event is Free
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We are honored and proud to bring the work of Patricia Lagarde, photographer, book artist, and conceptualist. Her work will be shown together with Byron Ryono, sculptor and avid birder, in an exhibit called forma pura/ pure form.
In this show we attempt to present two philosophies that deal with an ancient, anxious melancholy that explores the unattainability of the moon and its relationship to earth. Together we are given glimpses of the skies and the earthly firmament.
Lagarde’s photographs offer us a front row seat to the sky and all its poetry. The moon series becomes an actual tone poem and ode to a wonderful and hopeless attempt to trap the light. Isn’t that what photographs actually do? She attempts to capture this evanescence of the moon with the lightest thinnest possible scrim, making that nightly event even more fugitive. Patricia Lagarde lives and works in Mexico City. She has a deep and abiding interest in early photography processes, such as using glass ambrotypes to print via piezography. This is a printing technique that uses 7 different levels of gray ink versus the typical printing that will use only 3 grades.
Exhibit on view April 5, 2025- May 31, 2025.