A Strange Vibration & SFC Spring Print Sale
Presented by SF Camerawork
Date & Time:
Friday, April 18, 2025
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
SF Camerawork
Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd, Building A
San Francisco, CA 94123
A Strange Vibration brings to light work by three photojournalists documenting Bay Area women and queer lives at the margins from the 1970s through the 1990s.
In conjunction with the exhibit we’re having our SFC Spring Print Sale featuring special photographic prints from our Fine Print Collection and 50 Year Archive for accessible prices on Friday April 18th and Saturday April 19th during our regular gallery hours (12pm-6pm); the event will be free + open to the public.
Lenn Keller was a self-taught photographer who documented the Queer Liberation Movement through the eyes of a radical black lesbian, and her work now forms the core of the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, housed in Oakland. Darcy Padilla’s work follows life in the Tenderloin’s Ambassador Hotel in the 1990s, where people with AIDS and HIV took care of one another during the peak of the AIDS crisis in the United States. Elizabeth Sunflower’s archive has recently been rediscovered; with a focus on her Naked Seduction series, tracking the antics and activism of sex workers in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. Works from each photographer will contextualize their relationships with the communities they documented from outside and within.
Presented in collaboration with the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, Ricki Blakesberg & Retro Photo Archive