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SUMMARY:Meet-Up in LA: Chinese New Year Parade with Nancy Kaye (Hybrid Learning - Two Sessions)
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Learning (In-Person and Online)\nCelebrate tradition\, culture\, and community at Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown as part of LACP’s Meet-Up in LA series. This photographic experience invites students to document one of Los Angeles’s most vibrant annual events\, filled with parades\, lion dances\, ceremonial rituals\, colorful decorations\, and bustling street life. Photographers will have the opportunity to capture moments of joy\, movement\, and cultural expression while sharpening their skills in observation\, timing\, and visual storytelling. From intimate details to sweeping scenes of celebration\, this meet-up offers a dynamic environment to explore narrative and composition within a living cultural tradition.\nThis engaging exploration of Los Angeles is part of LACP’s Meet-Up in LA series of classes\, designed for visual storytellers of all levels. Each class includes an in-person photographic experience centered on a distinctive Los Angeles location or a unique LA event\, followed by an online Zoom session for critique and reflection on the work created.\nStudents will develop their photography skills while capturing the eclectic essence of the city—from its neighborhoods and cultural landmarks to its dynamic public gatherings—with a strong focus on narrative and composition. Participants should be familiar with their cameras (digital cameras are strongly encouraged).\nThis Meet-Up will focus on the Chinese New Year Parade event in Chinatown.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nNancy Kaye is an LA photographer\, educator\, and curator\, previously based in New York and London. Her background is photojournalism\, having worked for The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and AP. She currently focuses on sociologically-driven and fine art projects.\n\nHer photos are widely exhibited in juried shows and included in numerous books and documentaries. Her portrait of author Ralph Ellison is in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. She was honored with inclusion in Your Daily Photograph's Hot 100 of 2021\, 100 photographers selected out of 4\,500 by collectors and curators\, through LA’s Duncan Miller Gallery.\n\nNancy teaches at LA Valley College and LA City College\, leads street photo workshops\, and guides photographers in personal projects. She was interviewed for Street Photography Magazine’s February podcast.\n\nAmong group exhibitions she’s curated are With Water/Without Water at Photoville LA\; Capture This Moment\, ten online exhibitions documenting the pandemic for American Jewish University’s Whizin Center\; A World at Home\, depicting the pandemic’s early days\; and 2022: A Year of Duality\, a 2023 print exhibit.\n\nShe’s currently president of the LA chapter of American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP.)\n\nView Instructor Profile Here.
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