January 7 - April 17, 2010

Exhibiting projects that were created or begun by artists while living in the Bay Area, The Future Lasts Forever features artists working at the intersection of art and history, and explores ways in which these artists document their lives and the lives of others, address specific events, and engage with the Bay Area landscape. Featuring more than 30 artists, over 125 works, and organized in three sections, the works exhibited in The Future Lasts Forever all reflect the passage of time in various ways. Combined, a cast of internationally recognized artists, as well as emerging artists, from the Bay Area and beyond will come together to celebrate SF Camerawork’s anniversary in the second part of this historical two-part exhibition, marking 35 years of Bay Area-influenced photographic arts.

May 6 - August 7, 2010

Roll Call borrows the aesthetics and design elements inherent in the production of a school yearbook as a framing device for an exhibition of self-portraiture. Whereas yearbooks conform to a regimented style of portraiture, Roll Call seeks to bring together members as only they see themselves. In a way, this exhibition presents SF Camerawork's Class of 2010.

May 6 - August 7, 2010

Sims’ award-winning images in Theater of War: Pretend Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan reveal a surreal world, which is at once fake yet also disturbingly real. His photographs depict the people and places that play a role in the simulated Iraqi and Afghan "villages" that serve as U.S. military training environments for many soldiers prior to deployment. Sims takes the viewer backstage on the "war on terror," revealing how it is reframed in the American imagination as a dramatic entertainment with actors and audience.

May 6 - August 7, 2010

Read the rave review of this exhibition in The New York Times!

In a highly personal approach to photography, artist Jennifer Karady works with American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to create images that tell their individual stories and address their difficulties in adjusting to civilian life. Each new work is initiated by an extensive interview process with the veteran, followed by a collaboration in which the veteran reenacts a chosen moment from war within the safe space of his or her everyday environment, often surrounded by family and friends. Unlike some photographers who use actors to stage narratives, Karady works with real veterans to dramatize their stories through metaphorical, narrative, and allegorical techniques. Through this process the artist makes visible the psychological impact of war—the nightmares and memories that soldiers continue to experience after returning home.

September 9 - October 23, 2010

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived is a bold presentation of contemporary work that looks at queerness as a set of political alliances and possibilities. Untethered to institutions of sexual or gender normativity and in pursuit of greater freedoms, the work in this exhibition represents queer activism, intentional and imagined communities, self-determinism, and DIY alternative world-making. Less concerned with categorical sexual identities or coming-out narratives, this exhibition presents work that looks outward towards collective and resistant expressions of queer community existing outside of dominant gay and lesbian culture.

November 19 - December 18, 2010

Eve Arnold: A Lifetime Achievement Exhibition is a retrospective celebrating Arnold’ s world-renowned career. The exhibitions includes iconic images such as Marilyn Monroe on the set of the The Misfits in Nevada as well as many other well-known photographs by this legendary photographer. Zelda Cheatle organized this retrospective exhibition for the World Photography Organization. Eve Arnold, Magnum photographer, was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Sony World Photography Awards. Arnold received the award in Cannes on April 22—just one day after her 98th birthday.

November 19 - December 18, 2010

A Dangerously Curious Eye: is a an intimate and visually arresting exhibition of black-and-white photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1970s by photographer Barry Shapiro. Far from the bridges and cable cars, hidden away behind the famous hills, there is another Bay Area that most people never see: Hunter's Point, Bayview, Fillmore District, West Oakland, and Richmond's Iron Triangle—neighborhoods on the edges of a seemingly picture perfect American metropolis. This is where the late Bay Area-based Shapiro worked and photographed for more than ten years. A monograph published by Rock Out Books accompanies this exhibition.