2025

• CENTER opens a new exhibition and community space in Santa Fe, New Mexico

2024

• CENTER Celebrates its 30th Year Anniversary

• The annual Project Presentations return to in-person programming

• CENTER receives a significant grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that will support the formalization of our digital archive, providing stability and longevity to the CENTER legacy – Activating the Archive: Preserving 21st-Century Photography

2023

• Taking on the next chapter of the Blue Earth Alliance fiscal sponsorships programming with CENTER’s new program – Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship

• Review Santa Fe returns to form in Santa Fe, New Mexico

• Expanded Project Labs: Seminars and Workshops

• Inaugural Jay and Susie Tyrrell Excellence in Works by Hand Award

• Revamped Member benefits – Access to CENTER’s Circle: Special Content & Resources and Connections Network

2022

• New Member Benefits: CENTER’s Circle: Special Content & Resources

• Review Santa Fe returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico

• New Program: The Democratic Lens: Photography & Civic Engagement discussion series that examines how images have shaped America’s collective memory and inspired individuals to participate in civic life

• Circular Solutions 2021 & 2021 Award and Grant Winners Exhibition at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

2021

• Inaugural Awards highlighting specific themes: Personal, Social, and Environmental

• Me&EVE Award evolves to the Me&Eve Grant

• First ever online portfolio reviews for Review Santa Fe

2020

• First year without Review Santa Fe

• New Program: Photography 20/20 Compendium investigates the past 20 years of photography in interviews, panel discussions, critical essays, and photographer presentations

• Inaugural Project Labs: Seminars & Mentorship

• The Excellence in Teaching Award evolves to the Callanan Excellence in Teaching Award, after CENTER’s Founder, Reid Callanan, and will now be supporting dedicated photographic educators annually

2019

• Inaugural me&EVE Award supporting women supported by alum Dorie Hagler

• Inaugural Excellence in Multimedia Award

• Mayor pro-tem of Santa Fe attends Review Santa Fe Opening Night Lecture

• Lecture A box of ten photographs: Odyssey of Diane Arbus by Smithsonian Curator John Jacob

• Outdoor installation Climate Truth in the Anthropocene

• Free Film: USA attends Review Santa Fe

2018

• Inaugural Photographic Book Fair

• New Producer’s Choice Award

• 1st Solo Exhibition for an artist – Joel-Peter Witkin

• PhotoSummer Exhibitions Conjured Futures and Color Cue: Explorations in Perception

2017

• Art & Oppression Exhibition, Panel Discussion, workshop, and reading room at the Marion Center, Santa Fe University of Art and Design

• Zenith Exhibition at the Marion Center, Santa Fe University of Art and Design

• Global Perspectives: International Photographic Award Winners Exhibition at the Marion Center, Santa Fe University of Art and Design

2016

• Receives OTAB Grant and Collaborative Arts Marketing Grant for the City of Santa Fe

• PhotoSummer with 4 CENTER Exhibitions

• Review Santa Fe offers Festival Passes

2015

• PhotoSummer initiated

• 1st honoree dinner with Anne Wilkes Tucker

2014

• Exhibition at the Marion Center for Photographic Arts

2013

• Exhibition at the CCA

• Produces Artist Labs with 4 artist residents on the IHM Campus and Santa Fe University of Art and Design

2012

• Receives 1st National Endowment for the Arts Grant and Santa Fe Arts Commission Grant

2011

• Exhibition at the NM Museum of Art

• Creative Edge Conference evolves to the Portfolio Bootcamp

• Inaugural Project Development Grant

2009

• Exhibition of Award Winners of the Photographic Center Northwest

2008

• Inaugural Review LA

2007

• CENTER offers a Membership program

2006

• Santa Fe Center for Photography Photoplus Expo Portfolio Reviews

• Name change to CENTER official in December with new branding and identity package

2005

• Exploring the Creative Edge: A Retreat Style Conference

2003

• New name - Santa Fe Center for Photography

• Inaugural Santa Fe Prize for Photography

• Review Santa Fe becomes only juried event in the country.

2001

• Inaugural Review Santa Fe

1998

• Inaugural Excellence in Photographic Teaching Awards

• First annual Project Symposium produced by the Center for Photographic Projects under the aegis of SFCVA

1997

• Assignment Earth, single image awards initiated

1995

• Inaugural Project Competition

• Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts receives 501(c)(3) incorporation

1994

• First Project Workshop initiated by Sam Abell – “one of my motives was that it would be a workshop that did not end”

1993

• Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts (SFCVA), CENTER’s original name, was created for the initial purpose of funding scholarships