JANUARY MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
6 - 8 PM

You're invited to join us for our first members' critique of 2016! All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.

Please email michael@sfcamerawork.org with "January Members' Critique" if you are interested in participating. Space is limited. 

CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST
Meghann Riepenhoff
with Emily Lambert, Associate Director, Fraenkel Gallery
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
6 - 8 PM

On Tuesday, January 19th artist Meghann Riepenhoff will be joined by Emily Lambert, Associate Director of Fraenkel Gallery to discuss the artist's work and current exhibition, Littoral Drift. Please join us to learn more about Meghann's artwork, how she developed her unique process, and how it relates to historic and contemporary photographic practices.

ARTIST TALKS AND BOOK PERFORMANCE
Amber Hoy
Ethan Rafal: Shock and Awe
Thursday, January 28, 2015
7 - 9 PM

Please join us for an evening of artist talks, performance, and book signing with Amber Hoy and Ethan Rafal on Thursday, January 28th from 7 - 9 PM. 

In 2006, Amber Hoy deployed to Iraq as an ammunition specialist. Her work explores questions of her military service through the use of photographs, stories and abstractions: images and words pointing to each other, providing and withholding clues. In this work, she speaks to incidences of trauma, sexism and racism, combining images of past and present showing the slippage between military and civilian life colliding, communicating, and unraveling. 

Ethan Rafal's twelve-year, autobiographical project examining the relationship between protracted war and homeland decay, Shock and Awe, is a meticulously crafted image, text, and found object journal that blurs the line between author and subject, and personal and authoritative histories. Completed over countless years traveling the United States, the project pulls from the traditions of documentary photography and writing set on the American road.

The Shock and Awe Book Tour returns the journal to the people and places depicted, bringing author, subject, and viewer into an exploration of the total meaning of the work. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the project, the performance of Shock and Awe is equal parts story-telling, show-and-tell, and group discussion, presented with ample cast-iron pie, whiskey.

EN.VI.SION
Young Artists on the Horizon
Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco Citywide Art Show
February 9 - 11, 2016
Poetry Reading: February 9, 2016, 4 - 5 PM
Opening Reception: February 11, 2016, 5 - 7 PM

FEBRUARY MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.

Please email michael@sfcamerawork.org with "February Members' Critique" if you are interested in participating. Space is limited. 

OPENING RECEPTION
回 Retrieved
Kurt Tong, Daniel Traub, Beijing Silvermine/Thomas Sauvin
Friday, February 19, 2015
6 - 8 PM

Please join SF Camerawork and Chinese Culture Center as we open our dual-sited exhibition, 回 Retrieved. A complimentary shuttle will be available to take guests between venues.  

ARTISTS' TALK
Kurt Tong
Daniel Traub
Tuesday, February 23, 2015
6 - 8 PM

On Tuesday, February 23rd SF Camerawork and Chinese Culture Center present an artist talk and book signing with exhibiting artists from our dual-sited exhibition, 回 Retrieved.
This event will be held at SF Camerawork.

SF CAMERAWORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PHOTOALLIANCE AND DAYLIGHT BOOKS PRESENT:
DAYLIGHT BOOKS SPRING 2016 PRE-LAUNCH PARTY & BOOK SIGNING
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6 - 8 PM

Please join us on March 10th from 6 - 8 PM for a special pre-launch event featuring Daylight Books' Spring 2016 title. This event will be co-hosted at our gallery with PhotoAlliance as a kickoff to the PhotoAlliance portfolio review weekend. 

Daylight's Spring 2016 titles include: Alice Hargrave, Paradise Wavering; Gary Harwood and David Foster, Tiger Legacy: Stories Of Massillon Football; Rubi Lebovitch, Home Sweet Home; William McDowell, Ground: A Reprise of Photographs from the FSA; Stan Raucher, Metro: Scenes from an Urban Stage; Leah Sobsey, Collections: Birds Bones and Butterflies

The artists will be on hand to give short presentations about their books and sign them. Refreshments will be provided!

MARCH MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. Our March critique will be led by Gallery Manager Michael Thurin and our good friend Jennifer Brandon, a San Francisco-based artist and educator at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practices by SF Camerawork's staff and wider arts community. We review up to 6 portfolios a night, and registration is on a first come basis. 

Please email michael@sfcamerawork.org with "March Members' Critique" as the subject if you are interested in participating. Space is limited.

MEMBER FOR A DAY
Saturday, March 19, 2016
12 - 5 PM

Step into Spring with a day of art around town! Choose among your favorites from the following Bay Area institutions offering SF Camerawork Members free admission on Saturday, March 19, 2016.

Please present your membership card for two free general admissions per membership at each location; some restrictions apply. Check with each location for details of open hours and a listing of exhibitions on view.

Click here to renew your membership or to become a new member. 

Participating Museums:

Asian Art Museum
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Museum of the African Diaspora
Oakland Museum of California
SF Camerawork
University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
Walt Disney Family Museum
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

STORYTELLERS LECTURE SERIES
INAUGURAL EVENING
WITH TODD HEISLER AND LEAH MILLIS
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
6 - 8 PM
Ticket price: $10

Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and editorial director for ViewFind Judy Walgren, SF Camerawork, and PhotoArts Marin have teamed up to invite cutting-edge photographers from across the country to talk about their work and approach to visual storytelling through their work.

Storytelling is a word that has become increasingly popular in the field of photography. The "Story" embedded in a photograph or a group of photographs is what creates the understanding and connection between audience and photograph -- no matter which brand of the field the photographer employs. Photojournalism has been the cornerstone for this narrative approach to image-making, but as photographic genres continue to blue, the Storyteller's skill is increasingly important to all photographers. 

This inaugural event will feature the work of photojournalists Todd Heisler and Leah Millis. 

Todd Heisler has been a staff photographer for the New York Times since 2006. In 2010 he was part of the team that won the National News and Documentary Emmy for One in 8 Million, and in 2006 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for Final Salute. 

Leah Millis, born and raised in Denver, picked up her first SLR camera at the age of 12 and has had one in her hands ever since. Millis joined the San Francisco Chronicle in 2013 as a staff photographer. Her recent work is concerned with covering the worst drought in California's modern history.

Storytellers is funded in part by Cioppino's, ViewFind, the Northern California Council of Camera Clubs, and PhotoArts Marin.

APRIL MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Wednesday, April 18, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.

Please email michael@sfcamerawork.org with "April Members' Critique" if you are interested in participating. Space is limited.

OPENING RECEPTION
Suné Woods
2016 Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6 - 8 PM

Please join us for the opening reception of the 2016 Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer Exhibition, this year awarded to Los Angeles-based artist Suné Woods. 

Learn more about the Baum Award here. 

MAY MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.

Please email michael@sfcamerawork.org with "May Members' Critique" if you are interested in participating. Space is limited. 

SF CAMERAWORK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP EVENT
CJM GALLERY TALK CHAT: ROMAN VISHNIAC REDISCOVERED
with Judy Walgren
Friday, May 20, 2016
12:30 - 1:00 PM

The Contemporary Jewish Museum is offering all SF Camerawork members a discounted ticket price to attend Judy Walgren's lunchtime Gallery Chat on May 20th. 

CJM Gallery Chats are short talks or performances in the gallery providing insights into the art or expanding on the stories in the exhibition. On May 20 at 12:30pm, in conjunction with the exhibition "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered," Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and editorial director for ViewFind Judy Walgren will discuss how contemporary photographers have considerably blurred or even obliterated the distinction among journalism, art, and documentary in late twentieth century photography.

"Roman Vishniac Rediscovered," on view at The CJM through May 29, introduces recently discovered and radically diverse new bodies of work and repositions #RomanVishniac's iconic photographs of Eastern Europe within the broader tradition of 1930s commissioned social documentary photography.
→ thecjm.me/RVrediscovered

STORYTELLERS LECTURE SERIES
EVENING 2
WITH SUNÉ WOODS & WESAAM AL-BADRY
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
6 - 8 PM
Ticket price: $10

Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and editorial director for ViewFind Judy Walgren, SF Camerawork, and PhotoArts Marin have teamed up to invite cutting-edge photographers from across the country to talk about their work and approach to visual storytelling through their work.

Storytelling is a word that has become increasingly popular in the field of photography.  The "Story" embedded in a photograph or group of photographs is what creates the understanding and connection between audience and photograph - no matter which branch of the field the photographer employs. Photojournalism has been the cornerstone for this narrative approach to image-making, but as photographic genres continue to blur, the Storyteller's skill is increasingly important to all photographers.

This is the second in this series of lectures and will feature the work of artists Suné Woods and Wesaam Al-Badry.

Suné Woods creates photographs, collage works, and multi-channel video installations. Woods employs a combination of appropriated and created imagery to address sociological phenomenon, imperialist mechanisms, and formations of knowledge. Her work engages absences and vulnerabilities within cultural and social histories through the photographic image. She is interested in how language is emoted, guarded, and translated through the absence/presence of a physical body. Woods is the recipient of The 2016 Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer and her work is currently on view at SF Camerawork through June 25, 2016.

Wesaam Al-Badry was born in Nasiriyah, Iraq, and lived at a refugee camp where he traded some marbles for a camera and has been shooting ever since.  Al-Badry has been a contract photographer for CNN and Al-Jazeera America. He is currently pursuing his BFA in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. His recent work covers the rise of Islamophobic merchandising in America.

CREATIVE MEAN
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
6 - 8 PM

We are excited to be hosting an upcoming Creative Mean event on June 21st from 6 - 8 PM.

This evening, Creative Mean will present Chinatown Pretty blog photographer Andria Lo and writer Valerie Luu; San Francisco Chronicle filmmakers Tim Hussin and Erin Brethauer; and journalist and radio producer Annie Brown. 

Creative Mean is a new meetup and speaker series that brings together professionals from different mediums and industries for a night of talks and performances. For more information on Creative Mean, view their website here. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Photographer and writer duo Andria Lo  and Valerie Luu share a soft-spot for Chinese po-pos (grandmas) and their unique fashion sense. Together, the two created ChinatownPretty.com celebrating street style of seniors living in San Francisco's Chinatown. 

"Last Men Standing" is the first feature-length documentary from the San Francisco Chronicle. The film follows the lives of eight men who lived through the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s. A preview of the film will be featured followed by a discussion with the filmmakers Erin Brethauer and Tim Hussin.

Journalist Annie Brown will discuss her recent piece in the California Sunday Magazine about sex-reassignment surgery inside the American prison system, and her experience translating the piece for radio. 

JUNE MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.

ARTIST TALK AND BOOKSIGNING
Jona Frank, The Modern Kids
Mimi Plumb, The Girls
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
6 - 8 PM

Please join us on Wednesday, June 16th from 6 - 8 PM with photographers Jona Frank and Mimi Plumb. 

Jona Frank will present her new book, The Modern Kids (Kehrer Verlag). Beginning in 2010, Frank has explored and photographed an amateur boxing club in a working class community outside Liverpool, England. These photographs combine the qualities of formal portraiture with the intimacy of viewing the sport from a woman's view. The book features an essay by artist and filmmaker Bruce Webber.

The Girls is an ongoing project by Mimi Plumb. For the past five years, Plumb has been making color portraits of young women who remind her of her 1970s suburban roots. 

OPENING RECEPTION
S P A C E
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6 - 8 PM

Please join us on Thursday, July 14th from 6 - 8 PM for the opening reception of S P A C E, the 2016 Annual Juried Exhibition. Featuring artwork by David Campbell, Theresa Ganz, Amelia Konow, and Jacqueline Woods, the artwork in this exhibition presents an exploration and varied creative, photographic interpretations of the concept of "space." 

View the exhibition page here.

STORYTELLERS LECTURE SERIES
EVENING 3
David Butow & Jessica Christian
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
6 - 8 PM
SF Camerawork Member Ticket Price: $5
General Ticket Price: $10

Judy Walgren (Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and editorial director for ViewFind), SF Camerawork, and PhotoArts Marin have teamed up to invite cutting-edge photographers from across the country to talk about their work and approach to visual storytelling. 

Storytelling is a word that has become increasingly popular in the field of photography.  The "Story" embedded in a photograph or group of photographs creates the understanding and connection between audience and photograph - no matter which branch of the field the photographer employs. Photojournalism has been the cornerstone for this narrative approach to image-making, but as photographic genres continue to blur, the Storyteller's skill is increasingly important to all photographers.

This is the third night in this series of lectures and will feature the work of photographers David Butow and Jessica Christian.

California-based photojournalist David Butow began photographing while in high school in Dallas, Texas. He has since worked in over two dozen countries including Afghanistan, Burma, Iraq, Peru and Yemen. His news and feature coverage of subjects such as the 2011 Japanese tsunami, the 2008 China earthquake, and social issues in the United States have won awards from World Press Photo, Communications Arts, American Photography Annual, Photo District News and others. His current book project "Seeing Buddha" has been published in the New York Times and National Geographic magazine. 

Jessica Christian, a Bay Area native, is a visual journalist and photo editor of the San Francisco Examiner. Her recent work focuses on protests against corruption within law enforcement and telling the stories of those who have been affected by the ever-changing landscape within the Bay Area.

BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR RESERVED SEATING. The last Storytellers event was standing room only!

AUGUST MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Thursday, August 18, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.

Please email joseph@sfcamerawork.org with "August Members' Critique" if you are interested in participating. Space is limited. 

OPENING RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK
Love in the Time of War
Thursday, September 1, 2016, 6 - 8 PM
Delicious Taste in Conversation with Curators at 7 PM

Please join us for the opening reception of  Love in the Time of War curated by Việt Lê and Jennifer Vanderpool.

STORYTELLERS LECTURE SERIES
EVENING 4
Ken Light & Darcy Padilla
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
6 - 8 PM
SF Camerawork Member Ticket Price: $5
General Ticket Price: $10

Please join us on Wednesday, September 14th from 6 - 8 PM with photographers Ken Light and Darcy Padilla. Both photographers will present their coverage of the current election cycle. Ken Light will also be talking about and signing copies ofWhat's Going On? 1969-1974.

What's Going On? 1969-1974 is a monograph of Ken Light's earliest work from 1969 to 1974 documenting the social landscape of America as it roiled with upheaval.  Light began as a participant in the youth movement and later became an observer of the entire spectrum of cultural and political wars in America, crisscrossing the country with youthful passion and a yearning to explain his county to himself. 

Darcy Padilla is a photographer, lecturer, and member of Agence Vu in Paris. Padilla's awards include a W. Eugene Smith Grant, Guggenheim Fellowship, Alexia Foundation Grant, Open Society Institute Fellowship, Getty Images Grant, Alicia Patterson Fellowship, and three World Press Photo Awards. In 2016, Padilla received the Canon Female Photojournalist Award and has been documenting the U.S. elections exclusively for the French newspaper, Le Monde. 

2 BLOCKS OF ART
Friday, September 16, 2016
4 - 8 PM
6th Street between Market and Howard

Please join us for the 6th annual 2 Blocks of Art art walk featuring photography, painting, and music by over 75 artists at 20 different locations on 6th Street between Market and Howard. 

This year, the event will premier new photography by Janet Delaney, who has documented the ever changing life and landscapes of San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood since the late 1970s.  There will also be independent exhibitions by Oskar Lawrence, Brent Malone, Richard Perri and Chelsea Larsson, and group shows by Art Span, Inks of Truth, and Recology. 

Presented by the Central Market Community Benefit District and Urban Solutions, 2 Blocks of Art is free and open to the public. The event also includes outdoor music and dance, as well as food and drinks at local restaurants and bars. 

Walking maps are available here.

OFF-SITE SCREENINGS
Forgetting Vietnam by Trinh T. Minh-ha with Q&A
Friday, September 16, 2016, 7 - 9 PM New Parkway Theater, Oakland
Thursday, September 22, 2016, 7 - 9 PM Timken Hall, CCA, San Francisco

Please join us in viewing Trinh T. Minh-ha's Forgetting Vietnam, which will be screened off-site both at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland on September 16th and at CCA's Timken Hall on September 22nd.  Shot in Hi-8 video in 1995 and in HD and SD in 2012, the film explores Vietnam’s geo-political situation by examining the relation of land and water to Vietnamese history and culture. Touching on a trauma of international scale, Forgetting Vietnam is made in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and of its survivors. 

ARTIST TALK AND BOOKSIGNING
Leon Borensztein, Sharon
Judi Iranyi, Remembering Michael
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
6 - 8 PM

Please join us on Wednesday, September 28th from 6 - 8 PM with photographers Leon Borensztein and Judi Iranyi as they share their very personal projects with us.  

Leon Borensztein is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose areas of focus are in psychological portraiture and documentary.  Throughout his career, he has been driven by the need to give voice to the unheard and unseen.  Sharon, his latest book documents every stage of his severely disabled daughter's life.

Judi Iranyi will present her book Remembering Michael, which tells the visual story of her son Michael.  Michael died of AIDS at the young age of 19 at the beginning of the AIDS crisis in 1984.  Judi’s work is a visual means to share and celebrate his memory.

SEPTEMBER MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Thursday, September 29, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.

Please email joseph@sfcamerawork.org with "August Members' Critique" if you are interested in participating. Space is limited. 

ARTIST TALK AND BOOKSIGNING
Susan Burnstine, Absence of Being
Rachel Phillips, Divinations
Thursday, October 13, 2016
6 - 8 PM

Please join us on Thursday, October 13th from 6 - 8 PM with photographers Susan Burnstine and Rachel Phillips.

Susan Burnstine is an award winning fine art photographer pursuing alternative process to create idiosyncratic and deeply personal visual landscapes.  Her handmade film cameras, comprised of plastic, vintage camera parts and random household objects, create dreamlike images that speak to the sub-and unconsciousness of the viewer. She will be sharing her latest book, Absence of Being, an intensely personal, yet universal exploration of the subconscious world.

Rachel Phillips' photo-objects have been exhibited and published widely, including in shows this year at Dina Mitrani Gallery, Photo-Eye Gallery and Candela Gallery. Phillips describes herself as a hunter-gatherer, sifting through dusty piles of ephemera, and employs an unusual transfer-printing technique in her work, physically adding new imagery to century-old artifacts.   

CLOSING RECEPTION & ARTIVIST PANEL
Love in the Time of War
Saturday, October 15
6 - 8 PM

Please join us in closing our current exhibition Love in the Time of War.  At the event, curator Việt Lê will moderate an artivist panel with artists Anida Yoeu Ali (Tacoma | Phnom Penh), Bo (Oakland), Amy Lee Sanford (New York), and Nguyễn Quốc Thành (Hà Nội).  In addition, Anida Youe Ali will also perform her site-specific durational performance Red Chador. 

OCTOBER MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Thursday, October 20, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.

Please email joseph@sfcamerawork.org with "October Members' Critique" if you are interested in participating. Space is limited. 

PREVIEW RECEPTION
"Curator Picks" Walkthrough with
Sandra S Phillips, SFMOMA Curator Emeritus
Thursday, October 27, 2016
6 - 9 PM
Hosted by Dale Cook and Michelle Branch

Please join us Thursday, October 27th from 6 - 9 PM for the preview reception to our 2016 Benefit Auction.  The reception features a "Curator's Picks" walkthrough led by SFMOMA Photography Curator Emeritus and field expert Sandra S Phillips and will be hosted by Dale Cook and Michelle Branch. 

2016 BENEFIT AUCTION
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Registration: 5:30 PM
Bidding: 7:00 PM

The SF Camerawork Benefit Auction is our pivotal event and our most important annual fundraiser. Every year we have a dynamic selection of photographic artwork that has been generously donated by local, national, and internationally renowned artists to be auctioned off by auctioneer Rick Wester. Save the date for our 2016 Benefit Auction, this year on the evening of Saturday, October 29th. 

Please click here for more information for the 2016 Benefit Auction.

LENSCULTURE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
November 15 - 19, 2016
Reception: Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6 - 8 PM

Please join us on the evening of Thursday, November 17 for the opening party of “LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2016" at SF Camerawork in San Francisco. Meet many of the talented photographers as well as a part of the LensCulture team!

This year’s winners, jurors’ picks, and finalists defy any sense of déjà vu, their work covering street fashion and portraits, conceptual investigations and pure poetry, to moments of daily life — both ordinary and extraordinary.

The winners were chosen from a pool of submissions received from photographers in over 140 countries, making this truly a snapshot of tremendously varied urban life in places all over the planet right now.

NOVEMBER MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.

OPENING RECEPTION
Photography and Video Retrospective of the
Recology® Artist in Residence Program
Thursday, December 1, 2016
6 - 8 PM

Please join us at SF Camerawork for the Opening Reception of our new exhibition Photography and Video Retrospective of the
Recology® Artist in Residence Program.  The evening will feature a live performance by Jeremy Rourke alongside two short videos the artist completed during his residency at the Recology Artist Studios. 

STORYTELLERS LECTURE SERIES
EVENING 5
Jessica Eve Rattner & Andrew Burton
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
6 - 8 PM
SF Camerawork Member Ticket Price: $5
General Ticket Price: $10

Judy Walgren (Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and editorial director for ViewFind), SF Camerawork, and PhotoArts Marin have teamed up to invite cutting-edge photographers from across the country to talk about their work and approach to visual storytelling. 

Storytelling is a word that has become increasingly popular in the field of photography.  The "Story" embedded in a photograph or group of photographs creates the understanding and connection between audience and photograph - no matter which branch of the field the photographer employs. Photojournalism has been the cornerstone for this narrative approach to image-making, but as photographic genres continue to blur, the Storyteller's skill is increasingly important to all photographers.

This is the fifth night in this series of lectures and will feature the work of photographers Jessica Eve Rattner and Andrew Burton.

Jessica Eve Rattner received her BA from Amherst College and an MSW from the Smith School for Social Work.  She worked as a writer, editor, and clinical social worker before turning to photography at age forty.  She is the 2016 recipient of the Duke Center for Documentary Studies Essay Prize.  Her photography has also received recognition from Critical Mass Top 50 and LensCulture Emerging Talent Juror's Pick.  A solo show of her work is scheduled for next year at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

Andrew Burton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, documentary photographer based in San Francisco.  He is currently a fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program where he is working on a documentary film in Alaska.  Prior to this, Burton worked as a staff photographer for Getty iMages covering news on a national and international level. 

ARTIST TALK AND BOOKSIGNING
Mark Citret, Parallel Landscapes
Reid Yalom
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
6 - 8 PM

Please join us on Tuesday, December 13th from 6 - 8 PM with Mark Citret and Reid Yalom.

Photographer Mark Citret was raised in San Francisco and received both his BA and MA from San Francisco State University.  He will speak about his latest book Parallel Landscapes, which was completed and published earlier this year. Parallel Landscapes is the product of Citret's work photographing a massive construction site in San Francisco's southwest corner between 1990 and 1993.

Reid Yalom is a Northern California photographer.  He was a student and assistant to Mark Citret in the 1990's.  He has been widely exhibited and has two books published: Colonial Noir (Stanford University Press) and The American Resting Place(Houghton Mifflin). He will present work focusing on the use of shadows in both his film based and digital photography.

DECEMBER MEMBERS' CRITIQUE
Thursday, December 15, 2016
6 - 8 PM

All current members of SF Camerawork are invited to participate in our monthly member critique. This is a great opportunity to get direct feedback on your work and photographic practice by SF Camerawork's staff and wider photographic community.  If you are interested in participating in December's critique, please email joseph@sfcamerawork.org with the subject "December Members' Critique."

In the spirit of the holidays, we will be hosting a print exchange at this month's critique. Whether you are showing work or participating in the evening, wrap up one of your photographs, bring it to SF Camerawork, and swap your work with a fellow photographer's to take a new print home!