Janet Delaney

Janet Delaney is an American photographer known for her poignant documentation of the intersection of work, home, and shifting cityscapes. Supported by research and interviews, her projects reflect a deep engagement with the passage of time and photography's role as a historical record. Delaney gained recognition for her South of Market series, chronicling 1980s San Francisco gentrification. Her later projects, Public Matters and Red Eye to New York, captured civic life and street scenes in San Francisco and New York during the 1980s. Her most recent publication, Too Many Products Too Much Pressure, documents a week in the life of her father, a salesman in Los Angeles.

A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Delaney has received three NEA grants and held a one year San Francisco Arts Commission residency. Her work is in major collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young, and the High Museum and the Museum of Fine Art Houston. She earned her MFA from the San Francisco Arts Institute and held a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley.