IF YOUR WORK IS SELECTED

Please follow these guidelines to ensure your work is exhibition-ready and remains safe in transit. 

PREPARING SELECTED WORK FOR EXHIBITION

All 2-D artwork chosen by SFC for display in the gallery must arrive framed or mounted and ready to hang. Frames can be in any style or material, but if work is glazed, use acrylic/Plexiglas only; absolutely no glass. Mounted prints are welcome as long as they have some hanging method. Please, no sawtooth hangers for any work -- D-rings, cleats, and hanging wires are preferred. Matted but unframed work will not be displayed. 3D works must include any specialized hardware required for a safe and stable display (SF Camerawork can provide pedestals or plinths). For the safety of your work and our gallery visitors, no exceptions will be granted for these display requirements.

DELIVERY OF ART

Accepted work needs to arrive at SF Camerawork by Monday, May 19, 2025. In-person drop-off is available during our gallery hours, Tuesday-Saturday, Noon – 6:00 pm. If an accepted submission reaches us after May 19th, it cannot be shown. If you ship your work, please use sturdy, art-safe, reusable packaging and crating — we will use the same packaging to return the piece to you, so both the work and the packaging must be able to survive the return trip intact. SF Camerawork may cover up to $150 in shipping costs each way to/from the artist's preferred mailing address if outside the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.