March 1 - April 2, 2005

Caitlin Atkinson
Elizabeth Bernstein
Angela Buenning
Ernie Button
Sparky Campanella
Germán Herrera
Anna Kuperberg
William Laven
Jessamyn Lovell
Mark Luthringer
Valerie Mendoza
Andrew Moisey
Apollonia Morrill
Caroline Nicola
Mary Parisi
Matthew Shain
Albert Winn

In recognition of the essential support that Camerawork receives from its members, En Masse presents a select group of photographers from its membership. The exhibition features a broad range of contemporary work, from the probing images of family by Jessamyn Lovell, to Apollonia Morrill’s exploration of the physical and physiological residue left behind in public spaces such as bus terminals, to Angela Buenning’s images of the abandoned buildings and landscapes of Silicon Valley.

The exhibition was juried by Jack Hanley, Jack Hanley Gallery; Corey Keller, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA; Trena Noval, Interim Artistic Director, SF Camerawork; and Mabel Wilson, Professor of Visual Criticism and Architecture, CCA.

May 24 - June 25, 2005

Steve Durie
Bruce Gardner
Amul Goswamy
Matt Mays
Joel Slayton
Brett Stalbaum
Jack Toolin
Geri Wittig

The C5 Landscape Initiative features work by C5 Corporation, a new media collective based in San Jose, California. The Landscape Initiative is the culmination of three years of research and documentation of performative expeditions into the landscape through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and big data analyses. C5 is interested in how people interact with data and how data influences the way we interact with our environment.

Presented through database software developed by C5, this exhibition features digital photographic prints, fabricated sculptural objects, 3D visualizations, and digital video that explore, navigate, and map the landscape of the globe. Viewers are invited to interact with C5's expeditions while exploring their relationship to the land in a data driven world.

C5: the Other Path

The C5 Landscape Initiative presents three bodies of work. The Analogous Landscape: Rim of Fire tracks the ascent of volcanic mountains along the Pacific Rim of Fire by two teams of C5 artists/researchers. The images generated are the results of their 2003 climbs of Mt. Shasta in California and their 2004 climb of Mt. Fuji, Japan. The installation at Camerawork explores the relationships between these sites through computer graphic mapping of the topographies and GPS navigation of the two mountains, as well as documentation of the climbing experiences and processes of the artists. It also features topographic 3-D sculptural models fabricated in aluminum using the data collected through Digital Elevation Mapping (DEM) visualization tools.

The Perfect View considers the attributes of "sublime" landscapes. Using the latitude and longitude coordinates of locations submitted by the geo-caching community, C5 embarked upon a 13,000-mile motorcycle trek around the U.S., moving from location to location, documenting the sites visited. The exhibition includes photographs of seven sites juxtaposed with their corresponding computer-rendered topographies and satellite images.

Throughout the world there are paths of significant historical, cultural, and strategic implication, such as the Great Wall of China. The objective of The Other Path, the third installation of The Landscape Initiative, is to locate and describe the corresponding "other" of this significant path in the California landscape. GPS data collected during C5's trek of the Great Wall was used to help search matching data patterns collected on the China trek to the most similar data model in the terrain in California. The installation at Camerawork includes computer visualizations of the path search, and photo/video documentation projected onto topographic maps of China and California etched in glass.

The C5 GPS Media Player on the Whitney Museum of American Art
Through a collaboration with the Whitney Museum's Artport site, http://artport.whitney.org, viewers may access The C5 Landscape Initiative GPS Media Player. The GPS Media Player creates an implicit timeline and meta-narratives for each of the Landscape Initiative projects. It provides a means of documenting the projects from their point of common inception, data, and process.

Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
Spring/Summer 2005, Vol. 32, No. 1
The C5 Landscape Initiative: Mapping New Ground

August 16 - September 10, 2005

Luis Delgado
Cynthia Greig
Tracey Snelling

The Solos series allows for specially commissioned projects as well as a more comprehensive look at specific bodies of work, offering an alternative platform for experiencing photography and digital media by emerging and mid-career artists.

Luis Delgado’s installation POTUS, consisting of intimidating large-scale images of US presidents, invites viewers to question how power is consolidated, embodied, and represented in a single individual, while also considering the interchangeability of the men who have held the position of president. Representations, Cynthia Greig’s playful homage to Henry Fox Talbot’s Pencil of Nature, combines photography and drawing in a way that vacillates between the two and three-dimensional. Her visually-ambiguous renderings exploit the limitations of perception inherent in photographic representation. Reminiscent of the work of William Christenberry, Tracey Snelling’s multi-media installation Convenient is a hybrid offering of sculpture, video, and photographs that examines the limitless potential for interpretation of the everyday. The scale of Snelling’s work continually expands and contracts, mutating and broadening narratives with each new incarnation.

September 28 - November 13, 2005

Manon Bogerd-Wada
Jeremy Castro
Naomi Castro
Jontonette Clark
Lauren Desuyo
Ivan Fernandez
Franky Hernandez
Robert Lima
Ariana Montemayer
Courtnie Rykalski
Melanie Solis

First Exposures students explored their own personal and cultural histories by using family and historical photos along with their own images and text. The students utilized a variety of photographic media, including traditional black and white printing, cyanotypes, Van Dyke prints, color prints, and digitally created images. Students delved into their own personal and cultural histories, using their family pictures, historical, and found photos. They were then given the opportunity to create unique installations in Zeum’s cylindrical gallery space.

November 1 – 26, 2005

The James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography is a biennial award administered by SF Camerawork and The San Francisco Foundation, given in recognition of artistic achievements by California-born artists. Established by the Trust of James D. Phelan, former San Francisco Mayor, United States Senator and arts supporter, the annual competition makes awards in a variety of disciplines.

The 2005 winners are Sean McFarland, Arne Svenson, and Amir Zaki. Honorable mentions include Michael Jang, Jana Marcus, and Heidi Zumbrun.

The 2005 jurors are Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, SFMOMA; and Catherine Edelman, Director, Catherine Edelman Gallery.