The Bay Area Photographers Collective (BAPC)
Opening reception: Saturday, January 17, 2-5 pm
Meet the Artist: Saturday, January 24 & February 7, 1-4pm
Exhibit Dates: January 17 – February 21, 2026.
Curated by: Heather Snider
Cover Photo: Neo Serafimidis, Through the Window #952
The technologies of human imagination have led to incredible accomplishments while also creating existential threats to the natural world and the social contracts that hold us together. Join 22 BAPC artists for a fine art photography exhibition that explores “A Measure of Uncertainty,” at San Francisco’s renowned Harvey Milk Photo Center.
About the Collective
The Bay Area Photographers Collective (BAPC) is a community of fine art photographers dedicated to helping each other advance our artistic initiatives. We host peer and professional reviews, workshops, and mount group exhibitions. BAPC strives for experimentation, craft, and creativity, and we pride ourselves on our diversity of members, photographic styles, and practices.
Since its inception in 1999, members have explored various artistic styles and processes across the spectrum of film and darkroom, alternative processes, and advanced digital technology. We have also experimented with hybrids of photography, incorporating sculpture, ceramics, video, and other art forms.
BAPC exhibitions have appeared in leading Bay Area venues, including the Minnesota Street Project, Harvey Milk Photo Center, and the Berkeley Art Center, and internationally at Kyotographie and Photo Yokohama in Japan. Members have received numerous awards in photography competitions and have been published in prominent photography magazines.
Curator’s Statement
Through the breadth of our experiences, we all navigate life with measures of uncertainty. The current moment of history feels particularly untethered, with waves of extremity challenging the tenuous structures we use to frame our external and internal realities. Inundated with information, we accumulate anxieties and fantasies of so many unknowns. Adversities and opportunities swell with the potential of transformation.
Technical and unpredictable, photography is a medium that lends itself to the transformative possibilities of uncertainty. Time, motion, light, perspective, scale, sensors, chemistry: these are the measurable yet mutable substances of the photographic process. Each of the photographs in this exhibition distills a particular instance of uncertainty, whether exposed, captured, or created. The wide variety of imagery includes scenes of people in motion through ambiguous spaces, objects of undetermined function, and dizzying perspectives of scenes, both alien and familiar.
The BAPC artists employ a range of artistic approaches to tap into photography’s unique relationship with both truth and fiction, from straight documentation to juxtaposition, intervention, and fabrication. Together, their work creates a chorus of photographic perspectives exploring the edges
of meaning, inviting open-ended interpretation, and moving in tandem towards the sublime.
— Heather Snider
BAPC Artists:
Chad Amory
Eric Blum
Rose Borden
Ingo Bork
Maria Budner
Anthony Delgado
Allyson Ely
Timofey Glinin
Chuck Harlins
Shelley Hodes
John Martin
Anastasiia Nelen
Mitch Nelles
Ari Salomon
Angelika Schilli
Neo Serafimidis
Anastasia Shubina
Chris Stevens-Yu
Cindy Stokes
Alison Taggart-Barone
Rusty Weston
Nick Winkworth
Learn more about BAPC members at bapc.photo
