PhotoAlliance

06/07/2026

Our Fundraising Auction closes in less than a week, culminating on the night of our Benefit Dinner, June 11!

We have a wide selection of photography now available for bidding, including this series of prints by Rick Chapman. Learn more about the artist of this work below, and click the link in our bio or go to PhotoAlliance.org to bid in our auction!

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Rick Chapman is an American photographic artist known for his atmospheric black-and-white imagery that blends documentary observation with poetic visual storytelling. Working primarily with traditional film processes, Chapman creates photographs that explore themes of memory, solitude, landscape, and the passage of time. His work is characterized by careful composition, subtle tonal range, and a contemplative approach that invites viewers to engage emotionally with both natural and built environments.

Chapman has photographed extensively throughout the American West and rural communities, often focusing on overlooked details and quiet moments that reveal a strong sense of place. His images balance realism with abstraction, emphasizing texture, light, and spatial relationships. In addition to his fine art practice, Chapman has exhibited widely in galleries and cultural institutions and has contributed to photographic education through workshops and lectures.

His photographs are held in private and institutional collections, and his work continues to reflect a deep commitment to analog photographic craftsmanship and visual narrative.

Image: Rick Chapman, Isolate 770-California, 1993.
Chromogenic Print
36 x 36 inches
Framed

06/06/2026

Our Fundraising Auction closes in less than a week, culminating on the night of our Benefit Dinner, June 11!

We have a wide selection of photography now available for bidding, including this series of prints by Tom Zimberoff. Learn more about the artist of this work below, and click the link in our bio or go to PhotoAlliance.org to bid in our auction!

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While photographing for his project about the members of White Fence—L.A.’s oldest and most violent gang, dating back to 1900—Tom Zimberoff wasn't struck by the menacing nature of the members, so much as their style: theatrical, self-curated, and precise, a visual assertion of identity and status, a razor-sharp grammar of visual identity: wardrobe as semiotics.

Tom Zimberoff's work was the magazine and editorial world, where he spent a lifetime documenting figures from John Lennon to Groucho Marx, and various other figures at the intersections of art, culture, history, and public life. His photographs have appeared widely in print and are held in museums and private collections. In 2016, his archive of film was accessioned by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also likely to be the only photographer to have shorted out a Los Angeles-class fast-attack nuclear submarine by plugging in his strobe lights.

Image: Tom Zimberoff, The White Fence, 1985
6 Archival Pigment Prints
8 1/4" x 6 1/2" image, matted to 11x14"�
�Open for bidding in the 2026 PhotoAlliance Fundraising Auction.

To coincide with our Benefit Dinner, PhotoAlliance has a selection of amazing photographic works, now live in our Auction! Bidding can be done from anywhere, and artworks can be shipped as well. The final night of bidding will be June 11, and can be done in person at the dinner or online!

06/05/2026

Our Fundraising Auction closes in less than a week, culminating on the night of our Benefit Dinner, June 11!

We have a wide selection of photography now available for bidding, including this work by Chris McCaw. Learn more about the artist of this work below, and click the link in our bio or go to PhotoAlliance.org to bid in our auction!

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Chris McCaw is an American photographic artist renowned for pushing the boundaries of analog photography through experimental, camera-based processes. Born in Daly City, California, in 1971, he earned a BFA in Photography from the Academy of Art University and has spent decades developing unique methods that merge science, craftsmanship, and landscape observation. McCaw is best known for his acclaimed "Sunburn" series, created with hand-built large-format cameras, expired photographic paper, and extremely long exposures directed at the sun. The resulting images record the sun’s path as physical burn marks scorched directly into the paper, transforming light into a tangible trace of time. His work explores themes of duration, celestial movement, and the material nature of photography itself. Held in major museum collections worldwide, McCaw’s photographs stand at the intersection of art, experimentation, and environmental observation, redefining what a photographic image can be.

This image is from the series, "The Family Farm", where McCaw documented the remains of his grandparents farm, after the passing of the last farmer in the family. This image demonstrates his early experiments with long exposures developing the work that would become "Sunburn", while also continuing to make more traditional photographs on film for contact and platinum printing.

Image: Chris McCaw, The nights sky, Manteca, CA. 2007
7 x 17 inches
Analogue platinum/palladium contact print, AP 1
Open for bidding in the 2026 PhotoAlliance Fundraising Auction.

06/04/2026

Our Benefit Dinner and Fundraising Auction is exactly one week away! Join us Thursday June 11 from 6:30-9:30 pm at the Trocadero Clubhouse in Stern Grove for a night of food, friends, and photography! The Fundraising Auction will end live at the dinner, but bids can be placed online from anywhere, with artwork shipping available!

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Learn more about the founding of PhotoAlliance in 2002 by the Founder and Creative Director herself, Linda Connor!

Video by Stuart Bass

05/29/2026

Help fund PhotoAlliance's technology costs!

As part of our 2026 Benefit Auction, we have special "Fund a Need" Categories you can donate to! Whether it is helping us pay Lecturing Artist Honorariums, Portfolio Review Scholarships for Students, or Visiting Artist Travel Expenses, each dollar you donate helps us bring great photography programming to the Bay Area, and engages the community! Click the "Auction Lots" at the Link in our Bio, then select "Fund-a-Need" in the dropbox to see each of our categories!

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PhotoAlliance's technology costs include our web domain, website hosting, a small group Adobe license at a nonprofit rate, and marginal fees through our Point of Sale systems.

Our goal is to raise funds to cover our full annual technology cost of $2,000.

A donation of $175 roughly funds 1 month of technology needs.
A donation of $500 funds 3 months of technology needs.
A donation of $1,000 funds 6 months of technology needs.
A donation of $2,000 funds a full calendar year of technology needs.
Excess donations beyond our goal will go toward future technology costs, and investment in tools which streamline the work of our staff, easing our operational load.

05/28/2026

Our Fundraising Auction closes in less than two weeks, culminating at on the night of our Benefit Dinner, June 11!

There is a breadth of work available for bidding, including these portraits of South Korean video artist Nam June Paik, by Cal Kowal, an American photographer and educator whose conceptually driven work explores perception, abstraction, and the formal qualities of everyday subjects. Kowal’s photographs of Nam June Paik capture the experimental energy and creative spirit that defined Paik’s work and the avant-garde art scene of the era. Kowal’s photographs are held in collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and can be in YOUR collection with works available for bidding in our Auction!

Images: section from Cal Kowal, Seven Portraits of Nan June Paik, 1994.
(7) 8x10 inch Silver Gelatin Prints 
Open for bidding in the 2026 PhotoAlliance Fundraising Auction.

05/25/2026

Our Fundraising Auction ends in two weeks, so make sure you get your bids in! The final night of the auction is also our Benefit Dinner on June 11, at which you can also bid on the works in person. For full info, please visit the link in our Bio, or at PhotoAlliance.org.

Here PhotoAlliance Creative Director Linda Connor speaks about her contribution to the auction, “Banares, India, 1979”, which is available for bidding! It is an 8x10 Gold-toned Silver gelatin print on printing out paper, a process that Linda is best known for.

Video by Stuart Bass

05/23/2026

Our Fundraising Auction is now open, and bidding can be done online from anywhere, (with shipping available!). It runs until June 11, the night of the our Benefit Dinner!

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Read on the learn more about the works of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, the two images posted here are available for bidding now!

Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish American photographer, educator, and Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. While working for five years as a copyrighter on Madison Avenue, one particular slogan he wrote for Minolta Cameras: “What happens inside your mind can happen inside a camera” inspired him to pursue study with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his MFA degree in photography.

Since 1969, he has devoted more than five decades to creating un-manipulated n**e self-portraits that merge the human body with natural and urban landscapes. His photographs are known for surreal visual puns and compositions, where Minkkinen is both the subject and the sole creator.

Image 1: Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Foster Pond 9.9, 1999. 20x24 inch Silver Gelatin Print
Image 2: Image: Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Kasi ja Kivi, Hirvensalmi, Finland, 2007. 20x24 inch Silver Gelatin Print