Pebble Beach through a Pulitzer winner’s lens

By Tim O’Rourke

Pebble Beach is a mecca for golfers, and the annual AT&T pro-am tournament brings actors, comedians and performers together with some of the sport’s top players for a lively weekend set against a ...

Super Bowl Photo Classics

By EUSTACIO HUMPHREY

Perhaps nothing exemplifies the growth and popularity of the Super Bowl more than the evolution of the places that have hosted it. When the Super Bowl came into existence in the late 1960s, most of the ...

Bay Area Super Bowl Moments

By EUSTACIO HUMPHREY

The NFL's decision to celebrate the 50th edition of the Super Bowl in the heart of the Golden State makes perfect sense. After all, no other region in the country mirrors the remarkable growth of the Super ...

Finalists for the Smithsonian Photo Contest revealed

By Dylan Entelis

Smithsonian.com  has announced it's finalists for their 12th Annual Photo Contest. The contest spans six categories: the Natural World, Travel, People, Americana, Altered Images, and Mobile, for which ...

'It’s What I Do,’ by Lynsey Addario

Chronicle Director of Photography Judy Walgren reviews Lynsey Addario's new book, in which she writes about her life as a war photographer, wife, and mother.

The Chronicle’s Top 125 Photos of 2015

By Kat Duncan

It was an eventful year in the Bay Area. Chronicle photographers captured moments large and small of indescribable beauty, love, humor and loss in 2015. From wildfires, to fashion shoots, to the ...

When Tech comes to town: The rise of Silicon Valley giants

Since arriving in San Francisco from England a few years ago, photographer/writer Stephen McLaren has completely immersed himself in the visual culture of the city. Noting immediately that the tech ...

See winners of ‘Changing City’ photo contest from EyeEm,

By Judy Walgren

Gentrification: Love it or hate it, it’s changing the look and feel of cities around the world. EyeEm , a platform where photographers can post and sell their ...

Southeast Asian filmmakers shine in S.F. spotlight

By Judy Walgren

California is home to the largest population of Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants in the world, with a large concentration living in the Bay Area. For this reason and to mark the 40th anniversary of ...

Syrian refugee struggle seen through children’s eyes

By Brian Feulner

The massive migration of Syrian refugees to Europe has shown the world the lengths people will go to survive. Their treacherous journey across the Mediterranean and Aegean seas is merely the precursor to ...

Darcy Padilla on ‘Facing Change: Documenting America’

By Judy Walgren

In 2013, San Francisco photographer Darcy Padilla received an e-mail from the board of Facing Change Documenting America (FCDA) asking her if she would join their team of 10 renowned photojournalists to ...

Photographer Stephen McLaren searches for the light in S.F.

By Judy Walgren

When Scottish photographer/writer Stephen McLaren is not writing books about photography or organizing line-ups for his high-profile Battery Club photography salons, he is outside chasing the light under ...

Photographer’s work shines light on ‘invisibility of the

By Judy Walgren

British photographer Paul Graham has masterfully organized three bodies of work: “American Night (1998-2002),” “a shimmer of possibility (2004-06),” and “The Present (2009-11)” for the first ...

Stephen Albair’s ‘Private Views’

By Judy Walgren

Stephen Albair’s show “Private Views, Hidden Reflections,” on display in San Francisco’s Dryansky Gallery, is an incredible connection of 20 colorful constructed images that take viewers into ...

The “People’s Pope” in Washington D.C.

By Mike Kepka

WASHINGTON — They call him the “People’s Pope,” and the people demonstrated why, lining the sidewalks and public spaces of the nation’s capital, hoping for a glance of Pope Francis during the ...

‘Femme Papel’ at Rayko Photo Center

By Judy Walgren

Rayko Photo Center kicks off the fall exhibition schedule with an incredible collection of prints by photographers Johnna Arnold, Jenna Kuiper, Vanessa Marsh, Klea McKenna, Maggie Preston, Meghann ...

Can image of drowned Syrian refugee child save lives?

By Judy Walgren

The photograph of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach will go into history as an iconic image of war. The brutal conflict in Syria, emerging from the Arab ...

Visura: a labor of love

By Judy Walgren

A year after Adriana Teresa Letorney, co-founder and creative director for Visura.co , graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2007, she conceived of and began building Visura, an online ...

Highlights and Shadows at the Bancroft Library Gallery

By Judy Walgren

The Bancroft Library, in the heart of the UC Berkeley campus, recently received more than 2,000 books relating to photography from the Reva and David Logan Foundation. The gift included some of the rarest ...

State of the Drought: Something is burning

By Leah Millis

It was like the hint of a first snow. At first, you aren't sure if you see it fall, but then you catch a flake on your arm and you examine it as it shimmers and slowly melts. But this time there's heat ...

In the Park with Sam Wolson

By Dylan Entelis

Hey y'all. This week's "In the Park" interview features Sam Wolson, one of our favorite freelance photographers. Wolson, an Oakland-based Michigan transplant, joined me for a walk around Lake Merritt. He ...

On images and emotions of a historic Pride Week

By Nicole Frugé

The cool thing about Supreme Court decisions is the anticipation. We had two days of no decisions on the gay marriage issue but then, when it came down, everyone jumped into action. There is a lot of drama ...

Covering the Dubs

By Russell Yip

It’s not as sexy as you think. Covering the NBA Finals as a photo editor is like being invited to the coolest party ever but never getting to go to the actual event. I see the game through thousands ...

What We’re Watching: ‘Riding With the 12 O’Clock Boys’

By Cameron Robert

There’s something beautiful about Baltimore. Through the eyes of a young child, it can present itself as a concrete jungle full of opportunities, but to others it is seen as a city waiting to explode. In ...

What We’re Watching: Overburden

By Erin Brethauer

At the Roxie Theater on Saturday, May 30, the San Francisco Green Film Festival will be showing “Overburden ,” a new documentary by director, photographer and educator Chad ...

State of the Drought: A brief migration

By Leah Millis

The highway was sparsely populated in the middle of the night as I drove down Interstate 5 toward Anderson (Shasta County) in mid-March. A lone truck swerved dangerously ahead of me. Maybe it was a late ...

Bay Area photographers share their passion at Open Show

“All you have to do is love photography and videos,” says Tim Wagner, founder of Open Show. The audience of about 100 people ranges in visual expertise. Some are professional photographers. Some are ...

State of the Drought: When the trees fall

By Leah Millis

I arrived at Barry Baker’s farm in the early morning gloom. I followed his truck through a maze of roads, our headlights painting visions of ghostly almond trees as we kicked up dirt behind us. Finally ...

Stephen Galloway: 'Void and Verge’

By Judy Walgren

Photographer Stephen Galloway, a contemporary artist living in San Francisco, has created two bodies of work employing his images of rock formations from trips near the Donner Summit and ...

Meet 'T-Rex,' the female Olympic boxing hopeful and film star

By Erin Brethauer

Every spring, the San Francisco International Film Festival opens for two weeks, to the glee of moviegoers around the bay. It’s a chance to see everything from a documentary about riots in Kiev’s ...

State of the Drought

By Leah Millis

The landscapes are beginning to lose the green blush they gained from the handful of rains we had over the winter. The storm that blew through in December caused power outages, some flooding and brought ...

Authors preserve memories, images of Fillmore jazz era

By Judy Walgren

In 2006, filmmaker-writer Elizabeth Pepin and photographer and professor Lewis Watts published “Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era , ” their book documenting the historic Fillmore ...

Kevin Frayer wins the 2015 Hondros Award

By Judy Walgren

The Chris Hondros Fund has announced that Canadian photojournalist Kevin Frayer is the recipient of the 2015 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award, including a $20,000 grant to support his work. ...

Cuba: A view from the east

Associated Press photographer Ramon Espinosa has created a stunning visual portrait of the Santiago, Cuba, situated to the east of the capital, Havana. His poignant images of daily life ...

Flash mob: Strazzante photographs WrestleMania

By Scott Strazzante

I love available light. I enjoy the challenge of finding interesting illumination, even in the dankest settings. I love found light so much, that over the past 15 years or so, I have, probably, only ...

Aerial photos capture S.F. at night

By Judy Walgren

For his entire career, photographer-filmmaker Vincent Laforet has worked on the cutting edge of visual technology. He was one of the first to use a DSLR camera to shoot cinematic-style video with his ...

What We’re Watching: March 12, 2015

By Erin Brethauer and Dylan Entelis

Another serving of compelling video from around the web brought to you by Chronicle editors Dylan Entelis and Erin Brethauer. 1. Fighting Ebola Outbreak Street by Street by Ben C. Solomon, New York ...

Photographer Jim Goldberg packs SFJazz

By Judy Walgren

The San Francisco arts community came out en masse last Wednesday evening to pay homage to their own Jim Goldberg , a visual storyteller extraordinaire, during a talk framed in an intimate setting at ...

In the Park with Peter McCollough

By Erin Brethauer

Hi everyone. I like talking with photographers. And I like parks. San Francisco has an abundance of both photographers and parks. This little column will be a combination of these delightful things. ...

What We're Watching: February 20, 2015

By Erin Brethauer and Dylan Entelis

A weekly roundup of compelling video from around the web. 1. Melody , a New York Times Op-Doc by Marialy Rivas Rivas' poetic storytelling and cinematography stands out in this short documentary ...

Legacy of War

By Judy Walgren

All Giles Duley wants to do is to tell stories. His passion is so strong that stepping on an IED and losing three limbs could not stop him. “It was merely a hiccup along my path,” he says of the ...

Photographers recall 51-point performance

By Dylan Entelis

The 2015 NBA All-Star game tips off tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and the Golden State Warriors - an NBA-best 42-9 heading into All-Star weekend - are heavily represented. Point guard ...

Past Presidential trips to the Bay Area

By Dylan Entelis

President Obama arrived at an unseasonably warm SFO last night for his latest journey to San Francisco. His trip, the first Presidential visit to the Bay Area in 2015, coincides with the White House Summit ...

Les Blank Day, All For Pleasure

By Erin Brethauer

Two years ago, January 22nd was proclaimed Les Blank Day in Berkeley after a declaration made by the City Council. Blank, a filmmaker, lived there until his death at the age of 77. For Christmas, I ...

2014: Chronicle Videos of the Year

By Erin Brethauer

Hi, I’m Erin Brethauer, the newest member of the San Francisco Chronicle’s multimedia team. Looking back on the year, I wanted to share three big projects from the video team here at the newspaper. I ...