A Measure of Uncertainty
Opening Reception: May 1, 5-7 pm
Closing Reception: June 28, 3–5 pm
A Measure of Uncertainty is an exhibition by the Bay Area Photographers Collective. The technologies of human imagination have led to incredible accomplishments while also creating existential threats to the natural world and the social contracts that hold us together. Inundated with information, humans face escalating uncertainty in the world around us. This exhibition by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective explores life amid “A Measure of Uncertainty,” at Redwood City's Center for Creativity from April 30 - June 28, 2026. The fine art photography exhibition, featuring the original work of 13 BAPC artists, is curated by Heather Snider, the former director of SF Camerawork among other leading local galleries.
Curatorial Statement: Through the breadth of our experiences, we all navigate life with measures of uncertainty. The current moment of history feels particularly untethered, with waves of extremity challenging the tenuous structures we use to frame our external and internal realities. Inundated with information, we accumulate anxieties and fantasies of so many unknowns. Adversities and opportunities swell with the potential of transformation.
Technical and unpredictable, photography is a medium that lends itself to the transformative possibilities of uncertainty. Time, motion, light, perspective, scale, sensors, chemistry: these are the measurable yet mutable substances of the photographic process. Each of the photographs in this exhibition distills a particular instance of uncertainty, whether exposed, captured, or created. The wide variety of imagery includes scenes of people in motion through ambiguous spaces, objects of undetermined function, and dizzying perspectives of scenes both alien and familiar.
The BAPC artists employ a range of artistic approaches to tap into photography’s unique relationship with both truth and fiction, from straight documentation to juxtaposition, intervention, and fabrication. Together, their work creates a chorus of photographic perspectives exploring the edges of meaning, inviting open-ended interpretation, and moving in tandem towards the sublime.
— Heather Snider, Curator
The Bay Area Photographers Collective (BAPC) is a community of fine art photographers dedicated to helping each other advance our artistic initiatives. We host peer and professional reviews, hold workshops, and mount group exhibitions. BAPC strives for experimentation, craft, and creativity and we pride ourselves in our diversity of members, photographic styles, and practices.
Since its inception in 1999, members have explored various artistic styles and processes across the spectrum of film and darkroom, alternative processes, and advanced digital technology. We have also experimented with hybrids of photography incorporating sculpture, ceramics, video, and other art forms.
BAPC exhibitions have appeared in leading Bay Area venues and internationally in Yokohama and Kyoto, Japan. The current exhibition was originally presented at Harvey Milk Photo Center in San Francisco, and has been re-curated to engage the Center for Creativity’s unique space and reflect its commitment to exhibiting San Mateo County artists.
If you are an accomplished or emerging photographer with a strong artistic vision and interested in membership, contact us at membership@bapc.photo with a link to your online portfolio.