FORECAST 2025: SF Camerawork’s Annual Survey Exhibition
Friday, May 30 — Saturday, August 16, 2025

International Juried Competition

SF Camerawork invited artists working in photography to submit work for FORECAST 2025, SF Camerawork’s survey of contemporary photography.

This year’s acclaimed jurors, Nelson Chan, Nathan Cordova, and Vince Donovan, will consider all works within the expanded field of photography, from traditional to experimental, with a focus on recently completed, thought-provoking projects. The work of up to 5 artists will be selected for a group exhibition at SF Camerawork’s gallery in San Francisco.

INTERIOR LIFE

Curated by PJ Policarpio
with special projects by Marcel Pardo Ariza
Postponed- Spring 2026

“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.” 

― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

In the long shadow of centuries of activism and systemic violence, we find ourselves pushed to turn inwards, towards ourselves and the interior lives of others. This inward step opens up a space of deep connection across boundaries of difference to forge communities of belonging. The artists in Interior Life construct sacred architectures of queer BIPOC interiority through the photographic medium. Their intimate focus on themselves, their subjects, and the space between them resists the inherently violent potential of the camera, and empowers them with agency over their own representation. Ultimately, Interior Life explores a sense of tender reverence and community-rooted gestures of care through a philosophical framework of subjectivity.

Image: Clifford Prince