SF Camerawork hosts A Strange Vibration: Lenn Keller, Darcy Padilla, Elizabeth Sunflower in Landmark Building A at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC). A Strange Vibration brings to light work by three photojournalists documenting San Francisco Bay Area women’s lives at the margins from the 1970s through the 1990s.

The exhibition is on view January 22, 2025 through April 22, 2025; Tuesday through Saturday, 12:00 p.m. (Noon) to 6:00 p.m.

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, CA. 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 US. 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 contextualize their relationships with the communities they documented from outside and within.

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, Ricki Blakesberg, and the Retro Photo Archive

Free Admission