May Members' Critique

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Apart from being a member of SF Camerawork’s board, Jonathan Calm is a photographer and Associate Professor of Photography at Stanford University whose work explores community, mobility, memory, and the layered histories inscribed in American landscapes. He often works at the intersection of documentary photography, installation, and video.

His work has been presented at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Tate Britain, the Reina Sofia Museum, ICA Boston, Apple Park, and the Toledo Museum of Art, and is held in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has received awards and residencies, including an Art Matters Grant, the Larry Sultan Photography Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center.

Currently, Calm’s work, To Wherever, Forever: Archives of Absence and Sites of Passage, is on view at the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University (February 5 - June 13, 2026).

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