SF Camerawork closing

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Camerawork will close its doors at the end of August 2026

PASSING ALONG

Last Operating Week
Our last week of operation is this Wednesday through Sunday. We will be open from 11 AM to 6 PM.

August Members' Critique
The August 16 Members' Critique will be our last. If you've already signed up, we look forward to seeing you from 4–6 PM.

https://sfcamerawork.org/sf-camerawork-homepage

>> SF Camerawork began as Lamkin Camerawork Gallery in Fairfax. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, its founder John Lamkin brought the gallery to San Francisco and sold it to his gallery volunteers for $1. It became a nonprofit in 1977. Photographers like Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips and Hal Fischer are associated with the gallery’s early days — artists who were expanding understandings of photography as a conceptual tool in the ’70s and ’80s.

Early Organizers

  • Hal Fischer: Conceptual photographer and writer known for works like Gay Semiotics.
  • Donna-Lee Phillips: Conceptual photographer and early champion of alternative photographic processes.
  • Lew Thomas: Artist, publisher, and central figure in West Coast conceptual photography.
  • John Lamkin: Photographer who initially helped establish the venue under the early name Lamkin Camerawork Gallery.
  • Craig Morey: Photographer and early organizing member.
  • Ted Hedgpeth: Artist and early participant in the collective

1963  eggroll 

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Number cubing — sometimes the digits seem to have more power than sequence power .. this one was stuck in my morning cortisol —

1963 is 63 years ago this year .. if you were 18 in 1963 and graduating from high school, you would now be 81 … check those flip-flops and cargo short shorts at the door before entering your reunion .

AI breaded tilapia 

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do you know how mayonnaise is made — it’s constituent ingredients ?

In the rush to own everything, we are losing what it takes to make everything. but we’re at the point of no turning back — that dreaded place of fuel and flight ..

asking AI for recipes is a top 5 need. What level of help is your renta-chef when you ask for an eggless almond flour breading for tilapia [ tilapia isn’t key to the solution ]?

ANS: To make an eggless, almond flour breaded tilapia, use mayonnaise, mustard, or melted butter as a binder instead of an egg.

OOPS: guess our kitchen aid didn’t grok that eggless ( flourless) might mean no eggs at all — not even mayo ones. My guess, the trainers didn’t consider why a recipe question would come up. What the triggering ingredients suggest about meal tone — the voice of the chef.

Not as if they, the founding code-squadron of LLM attended culinary school — or even spent effort in a kitchen. Easier to select from chef’s menu.

Hell man, just because you don’t eat bacon doesn’t mean you don’t want bacon flavor — mayo ad that never ran