Born in Compton, California in 1952, Delaney moved to San Francisco in the late sixties and started documenting her neighbourhood in the seventies, capturing daily life there with a large format camera and colour film. She received a BFA from the San Francisco State University (1975) and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1981). The book South of Market (also published by Mack) appeared in 2013, and also deals with changes happening in the SOMA District of San Francisco. Janet Delaney lives and works today in Berkeley, California.
