UPCOMING
November 21, 2026 - January 9, 2027
FORECAST 2026
SF Camerawork’s annual juried exhibition presents work by emerging and under-recognized artists selected by a panel of artists, curators, and critics convened by the curatorial team. We invite you to submit work for FORECAST 2026, SF Camerawork’s juried exhibition of contemporary photography!
This year’s acclaimed jurors, Janet Delaney, Omar Farah, and Jonathan Mark Jackson, 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 five artists will be selected for a group exhibition at SF Camerawork’s gallery at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco.
AWARDS & OPPORTUNITIES
Artist honorarium awarded to participating artists.
$1,500 Juror’s Choice Award to one selected artist
$500 artist fee to up to four additional participating artists
Work presented in a curated group exhibition at SF Camerawork
Opportunity to sell work, with a 70/30 artist/SF Camerawork split
Work featured across SF Camerawork’s media channels
Opportunities for artist talks, interviews, and direct audience engagement
IMPORTANT DATES
Application opens: September 30, 2026
Application deadline: Sunday, October 11, 2026 at 5:59 PM PST
Selected artists notified: October 20, 2026
Gallery-ready artwork due: November 14, 2026
Exhibition: November 21, 2026 - January 9, 2027
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Deadline: October 11, 2026, 5:59 PM PST
REQUIRED MATERIALS
Up to ten work samples of finished, gallery-ready work. Images can be up to 5MB. Video up to 5 minutes / 250MB per sample, or a youtube/vimeo link
Brief project statement or artist’s statement
One of the following: CV, Artist résumé, or Professional biography/narrative
APPLICATION ACCESS & FEES
You must be a current member of SF Camerawork to apply.
Your membership must be current through the application closing date, October 11, 2026.
Once you become a current member, you will receive an email with a link to access and submit your application through SlideRoom.
Invitations to the SlideRoom application have already been sent to current members. If you are a current member and are unsure where to find your application link, please email us at info@sfcamerawork.org.
First-time members and members who need to renew before the closing date must submit dues HERE before applying. There is no additional application fee; ineligible applications or submissions that do not meet the open call requirements will not be considered.
Applications are hosted by SlideRoom. Participants will be asked to log in to their existing accounts or create an account on the SlideRoom portal. If you have questions about application access or membership status, please contact info@sfcamerawork.org or call (415) 487-1011.
Please note: The email address you use to sign up as an SF Camerawork member will be the email account where you receive relevant communications.
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.
