November Members’ Critique
With Darcy Padilla
Thursday, November 18, 2021
5:00 - 7:00 PM PDT
Darcy Padilla, Dorian flirting in the hallway of the Ambassador Hotel, San Francisco 1993. From the series "SRO."
On November 18th, SF Camerawork welcomed photographer and educator Darcy Padilla to lead the monthly members’ critique. The critiques are a great opportunity to receive feedback on your photographic practice and to see what other SF Camerawork members are working on.
ABOUT DARCY PADILLA
Darcy Padilla is a member photographer of Agence VU' in Paris and an associate professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Padilla’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship, Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, Getty Images Grant, Canon Female Photojournalist Award, World Report Master Award, three World Press Photo Awards (first recipient for Long-Term Projects), and a W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
Her photographs exhibited and published internationally: 6Mois, Granta, Stern, The New Yorker, Le Monde, The New York Times. With solo exhibitions at Cortona On The Move (Italy), Festival Nicéphore (France), Visa pour l’image (France), and DOCfield Festival (Spain) at the contemporary art museum Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona. Her prints acquired by the Chazen Museum and Banco Sabadell Art Collection. She was a judge on Sky Arts’ Master of Photography, a television program simulcast to Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom. And has given artist talks at the de Young Museum, DOK-Festival (Norway), Lumix Festival (Germany), and invited to lead workshops at Rencontres d’Arles (France). The novelist Emmanuel Carrère profiled Padilla's work in his collection of essays 97,196 Words.
With a focus in narrative photography, Padilla works on long-term projects about struggle and the trans-generational effects. Padilla’s monograph Family Love published by Éditions de La Martinière Paris, follows a family for 21-years — an intimate story of poverty, AIDS and social issues.
Padilla earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from San Francisco State University.
Her work can be viewed at: darcypadilla.com
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