CURRENT EXHIBITION

FORECAST 2026: SF Camerawork’s Annual Survey Exhibition
On view November 21, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 21, 2026, 5–8 PM

SF Camerawork is proud to present FORECAST 2026, the organization’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 photographers, highlighting current movements, trends, and concerns in contemporary photography.

This year, Bay Area art community leaders and jurors Janet Delaney, Omar Farah, and Jonathan Mark Jackson selected the work of Juror’s Choice Award recipient Race Dillon, alongside Annette LeMay Burke, Elina Frumerman, Conner Gordon, Deena Qabazard, and Sam Soon, from more than 120 submissions from around the world.

FORECAST 2026 will be on view from November 21, 2026, through January 10, 2027. SF Camerawork will host an opening reception on Saturday, November 21, from 5–8 PM at the gallery, located at 2 Marina Boulevard, Building A, San Francisco, CA 94123.

Press Release

HONORABLE MENTION ARTISTS

SF Camerawork proudly announces the FORECAST 2026 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 photographers during our annual juried exhibition.

Aishah Balogun | Ari Salomon | Beatrice Thorton

FORECAST 2026 JURORS

Janet Delaney
Janet Delaney (b. 1952, Compton, California) is an American photographer based in Berkeley, California, whose work examines the social and urban fabric of American life with both clarity and empathy. She is the recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, in addition to numerous other honors, including three National Endowment for the Arts grants.Delaney’s work has been widely exhibited in both national and international solo and group exhibitions, notably South of Market at the de Young Museum in 2015. Her photographs are held in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Oakland Museum of California; the Harry Ransom Center; the Pilara Foundation; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.

She first gained widespread recognition for her South of Market series, a poignant chronicle of San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood during the gentrification of the 1980s. Subsequent bodies of work, including Public Matters and Red Eye to New York, continue her exploration of civic life and the rhythms of the street in San Francisco and New York during that same decade. Her most recent publication, Too Many Products Too Much Pressure (Deadbeat Club, 2025) offers an intimate portrait of her father’s life as a salesman in Los Angeles. Earlier monographs include South of Market (MACK, 2013), Public Matters (MACK, 2018), and Red Eye to New York (MACK, 2021).

Delaney received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she later taught, in addition to holding teaching positions at the University of California, Berkeley and throughout the Bay Area. She is currently completing SoMa Now, an ongoing project documenting San Francisco’s rapid transformation into a global center of technology and the social consequences of this shift. She is represented by EUQINOM Gallery.

Omar Farah
Omar Jason Farah is Curatorial Assistant at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Previously, they have held curatorial roles at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.  Recent exhibitions include dearmuthafuckindreams, an intergenerational retrospective of the 1980s Black Queer Renaissance at the Hessel Museum of Art (2025), and Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas (2024) at the Institute for Studies in Latin American Art (ISLAA). He holds a B.A from Princeton University and a M.A from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

Jonathan Mark Jackson
Jonathan Mark Jackson received a BA in Art & The History of Art from Amherst College and a MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. His practice utilizes still photographs and prose to engage historic Black memory and theories of the image. He was a 2021 artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and is a 2026 Hellman Fellow of the University of California. Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of California, Santa Cruz. and is core faculty in the Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA program.