Feb 13 - March 15

At the center of Be Good… are images of Candlestick Park. Presented not as nostalgia, but as lived memory, Candlestick functions as a site where collective history and personal experience converge. For many San Franciscans, it represents a shared sense of loss—of place, continuity, and time. The site also holds profound personal significance for Emmanuel: the car accident that would claim the life of his 23-year-old brother occurred at the demolished location where Candlestick Park once was built. BE GOOD is dedicated to his memory.

Together, these photographs consider sports as a cultural constant—one that holds both joy and grief, and the constant battle of impermanence within the visual language of San Francisco.

Emmanuel David Blackwell III is a born and bred San Francisco–based artist whose photographic practice centers on sports as a lived framework—defined by fleeting moments, emotional highs and lows, victory and defeat, shattered dreams, and the discipline required to practice something until becoming deeply proficient. Be Good… brings together a constellation of images made over the past 15+ years, drawn from Emmanuel’s sustained engagement with San Francisco, its sports culture and the environments that surround it.

Raised in San Francisco, Emmanuel’s earliest attachments to the city were formed through sports—through summer camp at Kezar, countless recreation centers and playgrounds, and accessibility to gamedays as a youth. In this body of work, sports operate as a portal rather than a subject in isolation, opening onto broader questions of identity, memory, and belonging within a constantly changing city. The photographs move between spectacle and intimacy, capturing moments that exist briefly before dissolving—much like the games themselves.