Image: ©Hendrik Paul – Stars Born from Salt
The Image Flow’s photography gallery offers rotating exhibits in different photographic styles for all members of our community to enjoy. We host opening receptions and sit-down dinners several times a year that are so popular, our patrons even request the space for private parties. Looking for photography for sale? Our photography exhibitions are a great place to acquire fine-art prints for purchase.
The Image Flow is proud to present its inaugural Bay Area Photography Open exhibition, a juried call for entry that seeks to showcase the exceptional creative talent of photographic artists in the extended Bay Area region. Our esteemed local jurorshave curated a most impressive collection of works from thirty-three artists across the nine Bay Area counties, representing varied approaches to the photographic discipline.
A striking blend of images – from candid captures to constructed tableaux, sculptural forms, and alternative processes – find themselves at home together, a meandering cross-section of contemporary Californian photographic inquiry.
Adrienne Defendi, Aya Okawa, Cynthia Rettig, Daniel Fernandez, Dari Zeltser, Erwan Illian, Gayatri Rallapalli, Gina Basso, Hendrik Paul, Jeff Masamori, Jock McDonald, Joe Cornett, Jonah Saffran-Johnson, Judy Steiner, Kerry Mansfield, Leonardo Perez Cruz, Linda Barsotti, Margo MacArthur, Marion Faymonville, Megan Gorham, Michael Teresko, Patricia Reynoso, Paul Fong Bothwell, Race Dillon, Richard Hay Jr., Robb McDonough, Shane Hallinan, Westeigh, Sonia Melnikova-Raich, Suzana Stamenovic, Terri Loewenthal, Theo LaBrusciano-Carris, Virginia Hines
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Allie Haeusslein is a Director at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, the largest space in North America dedicated to photography. She conceived and edited the book Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation, published in 2019. Her writing and interviews have been included in exhibition catalogues and monographs, and have appeared in publications such as Aperture, ART21 Magazine, British Journal of Photography, and Foam Magazine. In addition to her curatorial work at Pier 24 Photography, Haeusslein has also curated exhibitions for outside venues including Filter Photo in Chicago and the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, among others. |
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Shana Lopes, PhD, is an Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Born and raised in San Francisco, she earned her doctorate in art history from Rutgers University, specializing in the history of photography. Over the past fifteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has recently curated or co-curated exhibitions including Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, Sea Change, A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA, 2024 SECA Art Award, and Zanele Muholi: Eye Me. She is currently working on the upcoming exhibition Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules, which will be accompanied by a book from Aperture. Her writing has appeared in History of Photography, Art Journal, and 1000 Words. |
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Nathan Lomas is a photographer, artist, and educator living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a BFA from the College for Creative Studies. He is an instructor, gallery coordinator, and production manager at The Image Flow Photography Center in San Anselmo, and has taught at the Academy of Art University San Francisco. He is also the owner of Heritage Tintype Parlor, a portrait studio specializing in wet plate collodion photography. Nathan developed the concept for Queer Conscience out of a desire to create more opportunities for queer photographers and artists to share their work. He is currently pursuing the creation of an LGBTQ+ artist residency program that hopes to provide mental health resources to its residents in addition to supporting their creative work and fostering connections to the broader art world. |
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The Image Flow Staff aims to celebrate photography in all its forms and to provide a platform for photographers of all levels to create work, exchange ideas, and to innovate the medium of photography. Our staff and instructors are deeply engaged with photographic practice in their daily lives and bring that same dedication to our space each day. We remain committed to making photography accessible to the community by providing public exhibitions, free lectures, workshops, and imaging services. Today, our workshops and services continue to be in support of The Image Flow founder‘s mantra – “It’s not a photograph until it’s a print” – driving toward photography in print form. We possess the tools and expertise needed to help bring your vision to life. |
