APA|SD Presents: Peer to Peer, November 19th, 2025

Do you have a photography project or series you’re passionate about? Curious what your peers and others think of it?

Join APA | SD and our photo community on Wednesday, November 19th at 6:00PM for an evening dedicated to sharing creative projects. This is an opportunity for you to share your work and/or to comment on the work of others. 3 photographers will share their projects in an in-person critique setting. Our “Peer to Peer” events are open to everyone, but you must be a current APA member to present your project.

As independent artists, we know it’s not easy to create in a silo. Sharing your work is an invaluable way to help find your voice and leverage the communal nature of creativity. Letting others in on your process can be inspiring and helps lead to self-discovery that can push a project even further.

If you don’t have a project to share, that’s ok. Come out to support the presenters and photo community. Constructive feedback and insight are always welcome.

Send us a link to your project for consideration. Submissions should be ready to share and present to an audience. If you are selected to present, you will be given 15-20 minutes including time for comments and questions.

WHEN: Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 | 6 PM

WHERE: Studio on Banks | 5343 Banks St, San Diego, CA 92110

Email director@apasd.org to register

This is a FREE event

Untitled 2025 Call for Entries is Open!

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Untitled is an annual juried exhibition designed to showcase the best work – images that show your unique vision, creative passion, and individualistic style, titled or untitled. Each year we invite curators, editors and industry professionals from the international photo community to help curate our annual exhibition and fundraiser. This year we’re honored to welcome our jurors Shana Lopes, Assistant Director from SFMOMA and Alyssa Ortega Coppelman, an independent photo and photobook editor, writer, picture researcher, and consultant based in Austin, Texas.

Our jurors will consider all photographic submissions for an in-person exhibition where 20 images will be displayed, and the top three finalists awarded prizes, one of which will receive the ‘Best of Show’ honors.

Our annual call for entries is open to anyone from students to professional photographers and there are no categories.

APA members receive discounts on all entries. For details and to submit your work click here or visit the Untitledshow.org to view past winner galleries. The deadline to enter is October 13, 2025.

Entry fees help support annual programming and events for APA San Diego and Outside the Lens. 10% of all entry fees will be donated to Outside the Lens in support of their mission and programming.

Thank you for your support!

APA|SD Presents: Culture and Coffee, Friday, August 15th

Join APA | SD for a casual members gathering at Bread & Salt Gallery on Friday, August 15th at 11:30am to tour their new exhibition by Jason Sherry. Meet us for a tour at 11:30 and stay to grab a coffee with us afterwards at Provecho! Coffee Co.

This is a great way to connect with other photographers, artists and members, learn more about APA and ask any questions.

Where: 1955 Julian Ave, San Diego, CA 92113

When: Friday, August 15th at 11:30am

This is a Free event so come out, meet other members and get more involved with your local photo community.

RSVP director@apasd.org

We hope to see you there!

Untitled 2024 Call for Entries now open!

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APA|SD is proud to announce our 11th annual Untitled photo competition and exhibition. Entries are now open.

Untitled is an annual competition and exhibition designed to showcase the best work of APA members and beyond – Images that show your unique vision, creative passion, and individualistic style, titled or untitled. This contest is open to all photographers at any level. All entries will be curated by our jurors and the top 20 images will be selected to display for exhibition with the top three (3) photos awarded prizes.

While an APA membership is not required to enter, members receive discounts on entries as well as sponsor benefits and discount pricing for gear and services throughout the year.

We welcome this year’s jurors: Bade Turgut, Director of Weinstein Hammons Gallery and photography consultant, Julie Skarwecki.

You can find full details and submission guidelines at untitledshow.org.

Entry fees help support programming and events for APA San Diego and 20% of the entry proceeds will be donated to the Flashes of Hope a program of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation that creates free uplifting portraits to honor the unique life and memories of every child fighting cancer.

Deadline extended to 12:00 PM PT on October 16th, 2024.

APA’s mission is to advocate, educate and elevate the professional photographic community.

Lens & Light Artist Reception, July 31st

Light and Lens photo exhibition on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at the University Club in San Diego.

Join APA|SD and The University Club Arts Committee to celebrate the works of San Diego photographic artists and APA members Nick Nacca, Rob Hammer, and Gary Allard.

Experience this unforgettable exploration of visual storytelling through lens and light at the Arts Committee exquisite photography art exhibit. This unique event celebrates the artistry and creativity of talented photographers, showcasing their distinct perspectives and narratives frozen in time. Experience the power of photography as it transports you across landscapes, cultures, and emotions. From breathtaking landscapes that evoke wanderlust to intimate portraits that reveal the essence of human connection, each image invites you to delve deeper into the artist’s vision and the stories they tell.

When: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 | 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Where: University Club Atop Symphony Towers
750 B St Ste 3400, San Diego, CA 92101

Complimentary to Attend | Registration Required
Register Here

APA Awards Call for Entries is open! Deadline Extended to July 28

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Our annual competition is open to all photographers at every level, worldwide — everyone from emerging photographers to established professionals.

Our Judges will select 43 APA Award Winners this year.

APA members save on each entry. APA Leader level members save over 35% on each image.

Now is a great time to join APA : enter enough images and your first year of membership can be free.

Like to upgrade? Please email: membershiprep@apanational.org

Awards Deadline Extended: Tuesday, July 28

MORE INFO AND TO ENTER NOW CLICK HERE

“And Here We Are – A Nature Story” with Bil Zelman at MOPA

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Join us for “And Here We Are – A Nature Story” with Bil Zelman at Museum of Photographic Arts on Thursday, September 6, 2018. This is a special one-night event including a photographic talk and presentation in the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater.

Photographer Bil Zelman’s evocative monograph “And Here We Are – A Nature Story” examines the current condition of our rapidly changing landscape, the punishing impacts of non-native and invasive species and the fragile places where man and nature collide.

Zelman has traveled extensively from the Amazon River to the Hudson, across the Sonoran Desert, the Mississippi Delta and up through the mountains of British Columbia documenting the beginnings of the Holocene Extinction and the impacts when species are juggled on a global scale. “Each photograph in this series presents its own protagonist in a distinct environment and while every image tells its own cautionary tale, the entire collection of photographs depicts the larger story of humanity’s often overlooked impacts.”

About Bil Zelman:

Photographer Bil Zelman has been on assignment in over 30 countries, shot journalism overseas for VICE and photographed and directed dozens of international fashion and advertising campaigns for well-known brands such as Frye Boots, Coca-Cola, Guinness, and Harley Davidson. His work has been featured in a variety of publications including Rolling Stone and GQ and he’s been selected for Archives Top 200 Photographers Worldwide ten years in a row.

Thursday, September 6th, 2018
Doors open at 6:00 PM, Event starts at 6:30 PM

APA and MOPA Members: $5
Students and OTL: $5
Affiliates: $15
Non-members: $20
Reserve your seat now

Thank you to our sponsors:

An Evening with Dan Winters

APA San Diego is very proud to welcome acclaimed photographer Dan Winters. Join us for a special event including a photographic talk and presentation at the Museum of Photographic Arts in the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater on Tuesday, March 6th 2018.

About Dan:
Dan Winters is an award-winning photographer who is best known for his celebrity portraits, photojournalism and illustrations. His work has been featured in a variety of publications including GQ, Vanity Fair, TIME, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and WIRED. His range of clients include
HBO, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Universal, Sony, RCA and Interscope. He’s had multiple solo gallery exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and a solo exhibition at the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah. His work is in permanent collections at the National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Telfair Museum and The Harry Ransom Center.

Aside from an impressive client list and overall body of work, Dan has a collection of successful books in publication that address a variety of subjects, including Road To Seeing, a deep dive into his personal journey in photography and The Grey Ghost, a selection of 30 years of New York street photography. He currently splits his time
between Austin, Los Angeles and Savannah Georgia with his wife and son.

March 6, 2018 6:00-8:00 at MOPA / Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater
APA and MOPA Members: $15
Students: $15
Affiliates (ASMP, LPW, SDMP) $20
Non-members: $25
Doors open at 6:00pm and event starts at 6:30pm
Reserve your seats now.

APA|SD would like to thank our generous sponsors:

Anatomy of a Personal Project with Phillipp Scholz Rittermann

It’s not if creative block will strike, just when. So, how does one get unstuck? Keep shooting they say… No assignments? Shoot for yourself!

Join APA San Diego for the first of a series: The Anatomy of a Personal Project – and learn how to rekindle the spark that got you into this racket in the first place.

Philipp will share personal work, strategies to overcome the demons of self-doubt induced inertia, and how to get back out into the world.

About Philipp:

Temporal and spatial themes lie at the heart of Rittermann’s photographic practice. His imagery encompasses nocturnal scenes of industry, pristine landscape, and most recently, installations of large-scale transparencies, which surround the viewer.

Born and raised in Lima, Perú, Rittermann lived in Germany and Spain  before immigrating to the United States in the early ’80s. His work is held in over one hundred public private, and corporate collections, including MoMA, NY, SFMoMA, CA, MFA, TX, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France, and many others.

Rittermann has been teaching photography for over thirty years in the USA and abroad. He exhibits in national, and international venues, and was honored with a mid-career survey at the Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, which published the monograph Navigating by Light. In 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego exhibited large-scale works from Emperor’s River, a photographic project he conducted in China. Emperor’s River has traveled to several museums across the country.

Thursday, January 25th, 2018
6:30 PM
Chris Park and Marshall Williams Studio
5343 Banks Street
San Diego, CA 92110

Tickets and information are available here

Special thanks to our Sponsors:

APA | San Diego

San Diego Chapter of American Photographic Artists

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