Margo MacArthur is a San Francisco Bay Area photographer. Her street photography practice has been influenced by a search for identity and discovery arising from various life transitions. She is drawn to themes of introspection, detachment, alienation, and quirk. Order is conferred via light, shadow, lines, and shapes thus lending structure to the theater of the street.

Selected Juried and Gallery Exhibitions

2025

Kobe Bento Honorable Mention in Street Photography at NYC4PA

Juror: Debra Klomp Ching

Sutter Street Vision: Shadow and Light at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR

Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery

Into the Past ImageNation New York International Photo Exhibition at One Art Space, New York City, NY

Curator: Martin Vegas

2024

Luggage Carry: Department of Street Photography

Curator: Polly Rusyn

Bam! We are Our Gestures: Women In Street

Curator: Laura Pierangeli

Lunch Dinner Words: Department of Street Photography

Curator: Polly Rusyn

Oranges Light and Shadow: PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont

Juror: Laura Moya

Salesman Honorable Mention in Best Photographer Awards: Street

Corner Click Pro Photographers

Oranges Light: The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA

Winner

Mood Julia Margaret Cameron Awards: Honorable Mention in Non-Professional

Kobe Bento Street Photography

Saloon

2023

Mood Honorable Mention in Urban Observer, Click Voice Competition 

Click Pro Photographers

Nines IdentityThrough the Lens of Attire: Women in Street

Curator: Saima Loan

Saloon Honorable Mention

The Streets at Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Juror: Robi Chakraborty

Dance Best Hands: Women in Street

Curator: Julia Coddington

Saloon In Sight: O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, CA

Juror: Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA

Kobe Bento In Sight: O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, CA

Juror: Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA

Saloon International Color Awards Nominee in People, Amateur

Break International Color Awards Nominee in Silhouette, Amateur

Mood Women Street Photographers Virtual Exhibition

Juror: Whitney Hollington Matewe, Photo Editor Time Magazine

2022

Saloon All About Photo Magazine #28: Streets: Merit Award

Juror: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Nines Flaunt It: Women In Street:

Curator: B. Jane Levine

Umbrage Show Me the Colors at Midwest Center for Photography

Mood Open Theme at Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Juror: Ann Jastrab, Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA

Mood International Color Awards Nominee in Fine Arts, Amateur

Portals International Color Awards Nominee in Architecture, Amateur

F100 Exposed 2022 at Marin Society of Artists, Marin County,  CA

Juror: Ian Bornath, Photographer and Educator

Disband Dynamic: Shadow and Light  at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR

Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery

2021

Primary Portals 2021 at NYC4PA in New York City, NY

Juror: Traer Scott

Umbrage Focus: Trees and Water at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR

Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery

Red     Framed: Shadow and Light  at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR

Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery

Escape Shades of Gray at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR

Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery

Mood Blue  at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, CA

Juror: Jen Tough, Founder of Jen Tough Gallery in Santa Fe, NM

Nomad     Focus: Portraiture  at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR

Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery

Group Exhibitions

2025

Saloon 22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition at FotoNostrum

Kobe Bento Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain

Various Street Scenes at the Bartolini Gallery in the Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA

2024

Oranges 24 Months-Photo of the Month at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA

2023

Saloon Group Exhibition at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA

Kobe Bento Group Exhibition at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA

2022

Teen Portrait shown in Pictures of People web Gallery and in-person at the DeYoung Museum

in conjunction with Alice Neel: People Come First

2021

Various A Celebration of Women’s Equality Day, Mill Valley, CA

2019

July 4th Group Photography Exhibition at The Image Flow in Mill Valley, CA

Contact Email:

margomacjames@gmail.com