JANET DELANEY AND CLINT WOODSIDE
In Conversation
Date: September 20th, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM CT
Cost: FREE
Location: Columbia College Chicago Student Center | 754 S Wabash Ave
In conjunction with the 2025 Filter Photo Festival, Filter Photo is pleased to present Janet Delaney and Clint Woodside in conversation, as they discuss Delaney's recent publication, Too Many Products Too Much Pressure (Deadbeat Club). Delaney will show a short video piece that serves a a precurser to the publication, as well as discuss the trajectory of making the work in 1980 and publishing it in 2025. Additionally, Delaney and Woodside will dive into the perils and pleasures of book making and the larger issues of the practice of Art and Life.
Janet Delaney is a fine art photographer whose work explores the social, political and economic dynamics of urban life. Her books include South of Market (MACK 2013), documenting a 1980s working class neighborhood in San Francisco; Public Matters (MACK 2018), capturing public life during the Reagan era; and Red Eye to New York (MACK 2021), portraying 1980s Manhattan. She is currently working on a sequel to South of Market, focusing on tech’s impact on her former neighborhood. Too Many Products, Too Much Pressure, (Deadbeat Club 2025) comes out soon and is about her father’s life as a mid-20th-century Los Angeles salesman.
Delaney received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 and three NEA Grants. Her work is held in major institutions including SFMOMA, the de Young Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, the Museum of the City of New York, and the High Museum. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. Delaney earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and taught at UC Berkeley, where she lives and works.
Clint Woodside is a photographer, curator, and founder of Deadbeat Club, an acclaimed independent publishing house rooted in contemporary photography. Based in Los Angeles, Woodside works with artists around the world with the expectation of close collaboration and long standing partnership. With thoughtful design, innovative editing and meticulous print quality, each title is one Deadbeat Club is proud to share with its community. Woodside has curated shows and exhibited work extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the US.