FORECAST 2020 ONLINE VIDEOS
About FORECAST 2020
San Francisco Camerawork’s mission is to provoke discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography. With FORECAST, our annual juried exhibition, we showcase new and thought provoking work from inspiring artists, and bring our communities together through photography.
This year, we were honored to receive over three hundred entries. After considering all of them, our jurors selected 12 artists to participate in the final exhibit.
Shelter-in-place orders and the realities of COVID prevent us from installing a physical exhibit. Despite these challenges, we’re delighted to showcase the work of these artists online. While we miss the excitement of being in our gallery, we’re excited to share a complete body of work from each artist rather than a single image.
SF Camerawork is also pleased to present the Juror's Choice Award of $1,000 to Rachel Fein-Smolinski for her submission, Sex Lives of Animals without Backbones, which explores courage, pain, and biomedical power dynamics within the western healthcare industry.
Our Jurors
Elena Gross
is the Exhibitions Associate at the Museum of the African Diaspora and an independent writer and culture critic living in Oakland, CA. She specializes in representations of identity in fine art, photography, and popular media. Elena was formerly the creator and co-host of the arts & visual culture podcast what are you looking at? published by Art Practical.
Michael Jang
Michael is a San Francisco-based photographer known for his 1970s photographs of life in California. His range of subjects include iconic public figures, punk and garage bands, and everyday suburbia. An exhibition of his work, Michael Jang’s California, was recently curated by Sandra Phillips for the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. And Who is Michael Jang? (Los Angeles: Atelier Éditions, 2019), the first monograph of Jang’s work, was released last fall.
Lester Rosso
Lester Rosso is director of Oakland based photobook publisher, TBW Books. In addition to working intimately with photographers to edit and design their monographs for inclusion in the imprint's tightly curated catalog of books, he also maintains a personal arts and design practice from his studio at Hunt Projects in Bayview.
