FORECAST 2025
May 30 — August 16, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 31st, 6pm-9pm
SF Camerawork is proud to present FORECAST 2025, SF Camerawork’s annual survey exhibition. Each year SF Camerawork invites an esteemed jury of artists, curators, and critics to select and showcase the work of emerging imagemakers, with an eye toward current movements, trends and concerns in contemporary photography. This year, Bay Area art community leaders Nelson Chan, Nathan Cordova and Vince Donovan have selected the work of Jonathan Mark Jackson, Lorena Molina, Jonah Reenders, Anna Rotty, and Brianna Tadeo from over 140 entries from around the world. FORECAST 2025 will be on view May 30 through August 16, 2025. SF Camerawork will host an opening reception on Saturday, May 31st, from 6-9pm at our gallery in the historic Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, overlooking the Golden Gate.
FORECAST 2025’s jury, SF Camerawork’s staff and Board of Directors, invite the public to join us in celebrating the dynamic themes and experimental processes in this year’s cohort. These artists explore diverse concepts that challenge traditional methods including; what’s revealed through disintegration and the beauty that might emerge in impermanence (Brianna Tadeo), engaging historic Black memory through objects, landscape, and portraiture (Jonathan Mark Jackson), reconstructing photographs within the environment while investigating systems, both natural and built (Anna Rotty), interrogating our relationship to the ecological network and creating formative narratives that seek to question our understanding (Jonah Reenders), as well as using the physical body to transform conditions within images and looking at identity in the margins (Lorena Molina).
Upcoming FORECAST 2025 Events
Stay tuned for our summer events series in conjunction with FORECAST 2025, our annual juried exhibition.
Collector's Circle members will receive invitations to studio visits this Summer with FORECAST artists in their respective spaces, as well as guided tours at SF Camerawork's gallery. Stay tuned for more information on upcoming programming related to this exhibition; specific gallery events are free and open to all.
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FORECAST 2025 Opening Reception
When: Saturday, May 31st, 6pm- 9pm
Location: SF Camerawork Gallery
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
HONORABLE MENTION ARTISTS
SF Camerawork proudly announces the FORECAST 2025 Honorable Mention list. The exhibition jurors were impressed by the complexity and nuance expressed in the projects of these emerging artists, and we’re excited to present a selection of their work online and digitally in the gallery space. SF Camerawork is thrilled to be able to champion the work of more image makers during our annual juried exhibition.
Race Dillon| Jill Frank| Courtney Griffith
Our Jurors
Nelson Chan; born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan and has spent most of his life between the States and Hong Kong. Having grown up on two continents with unique cultures, this immigrant experience has influenced the majority of his work.
He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his BFA and a graduate of the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, where he received his MFA. Nelson is a co-founder of TIS books, an independent publishing house that concentrates on limited edition photobooks. He was the production manager at Aperture Foundation from 2016 - 2019 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at the California College of the Arts.
Nathan Cordova; is a queer/pansexual artist based in San Francisco. His work explores the mobilizing potential of somatics in connecting our shared desires to political practice, weaving together theories of the glitch, emergence, the abject, the erotic and others. He completed his MFA in Photography, Video and Imaging at the University of Arizona (’24) and currently holds a Lecturer position at Stanford University teaching undergraduate darkroom photography, concepts and theory.
Nathan has independently published four artist books and he is a member-curator of Southwest Photo Collaborative, whose group show, Land, Body & Archive, visited the cities of Phoenix, Albuquerque and Tucson in 2023-2024. He has received grants such as the Medici Scholar Award, Helen Gross Award, GPSC Travel Grant as well as a fully-funded workshop residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Nathan was a 2019 FORECAST Awardee, and in 2024 he was named one of Lenscratch Student Prize Top 25 Photographers to watch.
Vince Donovan; is a photo mad-scientist, exploring, experimenting, and teaching traditional photographic media, techniques and processes. In 2011 he co-founded, with Michael Shindler, Photobooth SF, the first West Coast tintype studio in over 100 years. Vince is currently the Co-Executive Director of East Bay Photo Collective and EBPCO Presents! Coordinator.
Vince also worked in the Gallery at Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, and was in-house event photographer. His long-term portrait series, Cities of Faith, now extends to four different houses of worship in San Francisco and incorporates nearly a thousand individual portraits.
