We are a nonprofit organization committed to building a community of photographers. Our work ranges from fine art to documentary, color to black and white, traditional darkroom to digital imaging. We nurture each other’s professional and artistic growth through member activities such as artist talks, portfolio reviews, workshops, salons, and exhibitions.
Exhibitions
- BAPC at the San Francisco Photobook Fair07/22/2025 - 8:08 am
- Ephemeral Earth at Alameda Photo Festival04/07/2025 - 7:15 am
- Collective Visions at Startup Art Fair 202501/28/2025 - 7:19 pm
- Night Vision08/31/2024 - 2:07 pm
- Memento Mori | Memento Vivere02/18/2024 - 1:33 pm
- Uncanny Beauty08/24/2023 - 5:02 pm
- The New World09/12/2022 - 8:34 am
- Magnetic Pull06/25/2020 - 1:55 pm
- Marking Time05/18/2019 - 4:46 pm
- stARTup Art Fair04/02/2019 - 3:35 pm
Anthony Delgado Two Week Juried Residency at 360XQMX
/in Member News /by Neo SerafimidisAnthony Delgado has been accepted for the two week Juried Residency at 360XQMX for Dia de los Muertos at Ajijic on Lake Chapala near Guadalajara.
The residency includes travel to a number of smaller towns and venues and occurs around a period of local events – Dia de los Muertos, Procession of the Virgin of the Rosary, and the 3 day Feria Maestros del Arte.
More information at https://www.360xqmx.com/events/list/hosted-residency-dia-de-los-muertos
Anastasia Shubina & Timofey Glinin at Transmission Gallery
/in Member News /by Neo SerafimidisAnastasia Shubina and Tmiofey Glinin are featured in an artist’s showcase at Transmission Gallery with Entrance to the Void, a pinhole photography series created across the Bay Area, New York, and Boston. Using one of the oldest photographic techniques—capturing images through a tiny pinhole without a lens—the project engages with the ephemeral and the invisible. Through the use of camera obscura, the authors explore both urban and natural environments, revealing their ghostly essence and the transparency of human presence. Pinhole photography renders the visible invisible: silhouettes of people dissolve into shadows, while rays of light emerge and take on form. Entrance to the Void is a visual meditation on the desolation and haunting stillness of American spaces.
Artist’s Showcase:
Anastasia Shubina & Timofey Glinin
Entrance to the Void — Pinhole Studies
July 17 – September 6, 2025
Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 26th from 3–5 pm
BAPC at the San Francisco Photobook Fair
/in Exhibitions /by Neo SerafimidisCome see us at the San Francisco Photobook Fair!
Hosting over 30 tables of booksellers promoting and selling photography books, magazines, and zine publications during a two-day weekend event hosted at the Harvey Milk Photo Center. BAPC will be there.
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Allyson Ely Among Winners of Soho Photo Gallery Portfolio Competition
/in Member News /by Neo SerafimidisAllyson Ely’s project, A Place Out of Time, is one of 4 winners in Soho Photo Gallery’s 2025 International Portfolio Competition. The winners will each have a solo show in the Gallery during 2025, and Allyson’s will be August 20th-Sept. 14th at Soho Photo Gallery. Allyson will also be joining the gallery.
Allyson Ely Portfolio Receives Honors at Soho Photo Gallery and Black & White Magazine
/in Member News /by Neo SerafimidisAllyson’s portfolio, A Place Out of Time, was selected for a Merit Award in Black & White Magazine’s 2025 Portfolio contest. Selected images will be published in the August issue.
Soho Photo Gallery has selected A Place Out of Time as one of nine finalists in their International Portfolio Competition 2025. Three winners will be announced in June.
Ephemeral Earth at Alameda Photo Festival
/in Exhibitions /by Neo SerafimidisMay 9–June 1, 2025
Radium Runway, Alamada, CA
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BAPC Members in Gray Loft’s Annual Color-themed Show
/in Member News /by Neo SerafimidisBAPC is well represented in Gray Loft Gallery’s 7th annual color themed photography exhibit, Purple.
Presented in conjunction with PhotoCarmel. Selected by Ann Jastrab and Jan Watten.
Show dates: Saturday, April 12 – Sunday, May 11, 2025
Opening Reception, Saturday, April 12, 5:00 – 7:30 pm
Closing Reception, Sunday, May 11, 500 – 7:30 pm
Work in the show includes Allyson Ely’s photograph, Purple
Maria Budner’s lumen print, Untitled
Neo Serafimidis’s image, Each Night, I Die #2
Nick Winworth’s photograph, Slipping In
Alumni members Ellen Konar and Steve Goldband image, Pyramid
Anastasia Shubina and Timofey Glinin at Kommunale Galerie Berlin during EMOP Berlin
/in Member News /by Neo SerafimidisThe photography of Anastasia Shubina and Timofey Glinin (Glish Group) are on exhibit in Berlin at the “Parallel Realities” exhibition (details here) at Kommunale Galerie Berlin during EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography.
Originally conceived as a tool to represent reality, photography ultimately gives a fragmented vision of it. Its dynamic ability to both reflect and shape reality places it in an ambiguous position that the exhibition will explore through multiple angles: the role of the photographer as an artist and its freedom to represent and recreate reality, the fabricated narratives embedded in the editing, omitting and selecting processes of image making, the influence of the viewer and the context in which pictures are received, the impact of new visual technologies partly fueled by AI learning, etc.
Jury and curators: Bénédicte Blondeau and Norbert Wiesneth
Exhibition dates: 22 February – 27 April 2025 (More info here)
Opening reception: 21 February 2025 at 6 PM
BAPC Well-represented in CfPA’s Members Show
/in Member News /by Neo SerafimidisWe are pleased to report that several BAPC members will have work in the Center for Photographic Art’s 2025 Members’ Juried Exhibition in either the gallery or the online portions of the exhibition.
Juror: Allie Haeusslein, Director, Pier 24 Photography
Exhibition Dates: March 29 – May 4, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, March 29, 4:00 – 6:00pm
Reception, walk-through, and awards with Juror Allie Haeusslein
Alison Taggart-Barone’s photograph, Bohol Circle Immigrant Park, Alameda, Ca. 2024, is included in the online portion of the show. See catalog.
Allyson Eli’s photograph Serpentine will be in the online portion of the show.
Ari Salomon’s image 6 Feet Apart: X Sampler Grid is included in the online portion of the show.
Finally, alumni member Gene Dominique has two photographs in the show. The Rev. Lovely Moore portrait will be in the gallery and the still-life, Obsolete and Discontinued will be in the online exhibition.
Collective Visions at Startup Art Fair 2025
/in Exhibitions /by Neo SerafimidisApril 18–20, 2025
Hotel Del Sol
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Ari Salomon at Birdhouse Gallery
/in Member News /by Ari SalomonBirdhouse Gallery
2548 Judah Street, San Francisco, CA 94122 (map)
(415) 359-5187
@birdhousegallerysf
The exhibition includes new installations that leverage his large archive (from around the world) of the ubiquitous marks that told us all to stand apart during the pandemic. Works include concrete sculptures, murals, framed and unframed photos on the walls, windows and floors, publications and more. The groupings delve into a wide variety of metaphors, encompassing themes of transformation, the fragility of health, the rigorous yet uncertain nature of scientific exploration, and the visceral, often overwhelming experience of emotional panic. Through these layered associations, they invite the viewer to reflect on the interconnectedness of personal and collective responses to uncertainty and upheaval.
Chris Stevens-Yu in The Hand Magazine
/in Member News /by Neo SerafimidisPhotographs from Chris’s City Angels portfolio will be in the January/February 2025 issue of The Hand magazine. This is a print and digital issue and will be released the second week of January.