CfPA members show their best photography as part of PhotoCarmel 2026.

On the sunny Saturday afternoon of March 28, the Center for Photographic Art’s gallery at Sunset Center was so full of people—photographers and photography lovers—that the crowd was spilling outside. 

They all gathered for the opening of the 2026 Members' Juried Exhibition, a show of 45 images carefully selected from more than 2,300 entries submitted by photographers throughout the U.S. and abroad. An additional 45 images were selected for online view only. 

The juror was Rebecca Senf, the chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. 

Below are some eye-catching images from the exhibit that will be on display until May 10. 

Margo Cooper is a photographer and oral historian based in New Hampshire. She travels the U.S., from Maine to Mississippi, documenting lives and traditions. She is a longtime contributing writer and photographer for Living Blues magazine.

Tash Damjanovic is a Toronto-based fine art photographer, and has spent more than 25 years focusing on creating abstract, painter-like images. She creates calm and painterly images that explore cityscapes, landscapes and the human figure. 

Allison Plass is a photographic artist living in NYC. Her photographic practice is influenced by art history, the natural world and the intersection of cultural myths and stories we carry about our own lives. She is the first recipient of the Salon Jane Award for Women in Photography, 2024.

Carolyn Moore is a fourth-generation Californian whose deep connection to nature shapes her photographic vision. Although formally trained in music at UC Berkeley, the University of Oslo, and the Conservatory of Music in Norway, her creative focus shifted to photography in 2005. She works with both digital and experimental analog processes, including pinhole, plastic and lensless techniques. 

Kayhan Jafar-Shaghaghi is a photographic artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was born in Tehran in 1978 and immigrated in his early 20s to the UK. He started taking pictures seriously when he moved to London in early 2000s.

Visit the exhibit's page online. The Center for Photographic Art gallery is located at Sunset Center, 9th and San Carlos, Carmel. The hours are noon-4pm Wednesday to Sunday.