14th ANNUAL
PHOTOALLIANCE PORTFOLIO REVIEW
MARCH 18-20, 2022
AT San Francisco Art Institute
The PhotoAlliance Portfolio Review brings together top photography editors, publishers, curators, gallerists, and educators representing small, mid-sized, and major venues to meet with engaged photographers, review their portfolios, and provide career and artistic advancement opportunities.
The PhotoAlliance Review is the premier event of its kind in the Bay Area, bringing together reviewers representing the depth of photography expertise in our community along with photography professionals from around the country. The Review provides an excellent opportunity for photographers to share their work directly with leaders in the field, to meet and network with peer photographers, and to enjoy a weekend focused on photography in the heart of San Francisco.
REGISTRATION
The Review fee is $750 for 10 review sessions. Registration fee includes Friday night dinner + lecture ticket, and catered lunches and snacks on both Saturday and Sunday.
Registrations will be accepted on a first-come basis and at the discretion of our internal review.
As part of your registration process you will upload 10 representative image samples of your work and provide general information about yourself and your practice. These materials are used by PhotoAlliance staff and Reviewers as a reference and in order to provide the best attention to your work.
Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, March 19-20, 2022, photographers will have 10, twenty-minute, individual meetings with selected reviewers. Reviewer selection will take place before the event and separate from the registration process. Please note that PhotoAlliance will try to fulfill requests for reviewers to the best of our ability and that every reviewer at the event has the expertise to provide meaningful feedback.
To make our Review as safe as possible, we have reduced the number of participants this year. Please make sure to register soon in order to guarantee your spot.
TIMELINE
REGISTRATION OPEN
January 31, 2022
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REVIEWER SELECTION OPEN
February 14, 2022
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WELCOME DINNER AND KEYNOTE LECTURE
March 18, 2022
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PORTFOLIO REVIEW, DAY 1
March 19, 9:30am - 4:00pm, 2022
OPTIONAL: LUNCHTIME BOOK DISCUSSION WITH MICHELLE DUNN MARSH OF MINOR MATTERS
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OPTIONAL: NORTH BEACH PHOTO WALK WITH DENNIS HEARNE
March 19, 4:30pm - 6:30pm, 2022
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PORTFOLIO REVIEW, DAY 2
March 20, 9:30am - 4:00pm, 2022
OPTIONAL: LUNCHTIME BOOK DISCUSSION WITH MICHAEL ITKOFF OF DAYLIGHT BOOKS
REGARDING COVID-19
Planning for the future continues to be challenging. Though we hope for improving conditions as we move from pandemic to endemic, we will continue to monitor the situation and post updates here.
PhotoAlliance will follow all current masking guidelines and require proof of vaccination from all participants.
The SFAI campus is an open air design, and individual reviews will be held across a number of well ventilated classrooms. Safety consideration will be given to all of our shared activities.
If the situation warrants, we are prepared to shift the Review to an online format. Participants who are traveling are therefore advised to purchase refundable travel arrangements.
2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKERs
Janet Delaney
We are honored to have photographer Janet Delaney presenting the Keynote Lecture of the 2022 Portfolio Review. One of the Bay Area's most esteemed photographers, Delaney's career in photography includes pioneering use of the color medium in long-term studies of people and their place in the urban environment. Using research, interviews and photography, Delaney records untold stories that straddle the line between documentary and fine art.
Delaney has received numerous awards for her work, including a 2020 Guggenheim and three National Endowment for the Arts grants. Her photographs are in collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, the Pilara Foundation, the Oakland Museum of California and the Smithsonian Museum, among others.
Delaney received her BFA from San Francisco State University in 1975 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981. She has taught widely and held a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley for 15 years.
Jeffrey Henson Scales
Jeffrey Henson Scales will be the opening speaker of our Keynote Lecture. Jeffrey Henson Scales began making photographs at age 11 after his parents, his mother a painter and his father an amateur photographer, gave him 30 years of Life magazines and a Leica camera. He has since spent more than five decades as a documentary and commercial photographer. His documentary photographs have been exhibited at museums throughout the United States and Europe and have appeared in numerous photography magazines, books, and anthologies. His photographs are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The City Museum of New York, The George Eastman House, and The Baltimore Museum of Art.
Scales is the editor of The New York Times’ photography column Exposures, and co-editor of the annual Year in Pictures special section. He is also an adjunct professor at NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts, Photography & Imaging department, where he has taught photojournalism since 2006.
Scales most recent book, House, documents life in a legendary Harlem barbershop over the course of six years. He is currently working on The Archive Project, digitizing and cataloging over fifty years of his personal and professional photographs which include images and narratives from the exhibition: The Lost Negatives.
2022 REVIEWERS
Please note: Reviewer list is subject to change.
Ryland Allred
Head of Operations
Pier 24 Photography
Peggy Sue Amison
Artistic Director
East Wing | Doha
Johnna Arnold
Artist/Educator
Bob Aufuldish
Design Director/Educator
Aufuldish & Warinner
Jonathan Blaustein
Artist/Writer
A Photo Editor
Elizabeth Corden
Private Dealer/Curator
Corden Potts Gallery
Michelle Dunn Marsh
Publisher/Co-Founder
Minor Matters Books
Elena Gross
Director of Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs, MoAD
Anne Kelly
Gallery Director
Photo-Eye
Emilia Mickevicius
Curatorial Assistant, Photography
SFMOMA
Scott Nichols
Owner
Scott Nichols Gallery
Meg Shiffler
Director and Chief Curator
San Francisco Arts Commission
Thom Sempere
Associate Curator of Photography
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Debra Bloomfield
Artist
Rohan DaCosta
Artist/Curator
East Bay Photo Collective
Genevieve Fussell
Independent Visuals Editor
Creative Producer
Kristy Belle Headley
Artist/Gallerist at The Image Flow & Scott Nichols Gallery
Anna Cristina Lee
Photography Curator for Special Collections, Stanford Libraries
Jennifer Murray
Executive Director
Filter Photo
J.John Priola
Artist/Educator
Zack Schomp
Artist/Educator
Sonoma State University
Ada Takahashi
Director
Robert Koch Gallery
Kai Caemmerer
Curator of Photography
SFO Museum
Binh Danh
Artist/Assistant Professor
San José State University
Erica Garber
Director Of Development
Catchlight
Michael Itkoff
Cofounder
Daylight Books
Melanie Light
Author/Curator
Fine Arts Appraiser and Consultant
Mark Murrmann
Photo Editor
Mother Jones
Laura Sackett
Creative Director & Co-founder
LensCulture
Stuart Schwartz
Founder/Educator
The Image Flow
Judy Walgren
Artist/Associate Director
School of Journalism at MSU
Linda Connor
Artist/Educator
San Francisco Art Institute
Janet Delaney
Artist/Educator
Lonnie Graham
Artist/Educator
Pennsylvania State University
Ann Jastrab
Executive Director
Center for Photographic Art
Shana Lopes
Assistant Curator, Photography
SFMOMA
Emmanuelle Namont
Co-Owner
CHUNG | NAMONT Gallery
Jeffrey Henson Scales
Photographer/Editor
New York Times
Roula Seikaly
Writer and Senior Editor at Humble Arts Foundation
Lewis Watts
Artist/Professor Emeritus of Art
University of California Santa Cruz
ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE
The review is held at the San Francisco Art Institute, an historic venue built in 1926 and where, in 1946, Ansel Adams and Minor White established the first department of art photography in the United States. Located in Russian Hill, the 800 Chestnut street location is adjacent to both North Beach and the Fisherman's Wharf waterfront district, both lively, walkable neighborhoods of famed cafes and landmarks.
We have a reduced rate available for accommodations at the nearby Columbus Motor Inn. Booking information will be shared upon registration.
CONTACT
If your question wasn’t answered above, please email to review@photoalliance.org and we will respond as soon as possible.