SF Camerawork | Exhibitions

Winter 2009 Exhibitions
January 8 - March 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday January 8, 5 - 8 pm

United in Nima:
Bay Area and Ghanaian Youth
Share Lives Through the Lens
Curated by Erik Auerbach, Vivian Chan, and Jamie Lloyd
in collaboration with

An exhibition based on a unique photographic and cultural exchange between
youth photographers from SF Camerawork’s First Exposures photography
mentoring program and teens living in the notoriously poor Nima slum of
Accra, Ghana who spent three weeks together last summer in Africa sharing
their lives, culture, and art. This project was created as part of Adobe Youth
Voices, a global youth media initiative. To learn more, please visit
www.adobe.com/go/youthvoices.

Test Patterns:
Recent Video Work From South Africa
Curated by Leigh Illion

Image by Churchill Madikida
Photo credit: Churchil Madikida

An exhibition featuring the work of eight contemporary South African video
artists who explore ideas of citizenship and belonging in post apartheid South
Africa. The artists include Churchill Madikida, Penny Siopis, Berni Searle,
Simon Gush, Jo Ractliffe, Ismail Farouk, Ruth Sacks, and Usha Seejarim.

Past Exhibitions
View descriptions and selected photos from
exhibitions of the past few years here.

Admission:
(suggested donation)
$5 for general public
$2 for students and seniors
FREE for SFCW members
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