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LOCATION:252 S Los Angeles Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90012\, United States
SUMMARY:Lenscratch: The First Twenty Years - In-Person Reception RSVP
DESCRIPTION:Curators\n\n\n\nAline Smithson and Dr. Rotem Rozental\n\n\n\nOpening Reception and Holiday Cheer\n\n\n\nSaturday\, December 5\, 3 - 5pm @ LACP Headquarters\, 252 S. Los Angeles St\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012\n\n\n\nExhibition Run Dates\n\n\n\nDecember 3\, 2026-January 9\, 2027 @ LACP Headquarters\, 252 S. Los Angeles St\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012\n\n\n\n\nRSVP BELOW\n\n\n\nExhibition Run Dates\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 28th - Saturday\, October 24th\, 2026 @ LACP Headquarters\, 252 S. Los Angeles St\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\nThe beloved online platform Lenscratch is marking its twentieth anniversary\, and LACP is celebrating this milestone with a group exhibition that depicts select winners of the Lenscratch Student Prize. Their works will be joined by the 2026 winner of the Aline Smithson Next Generation Award\, which honors female-identified\, LA-based emerging visual storytellers.\nSince it was launched in 2006 by artist and educator Aline Smithson as a personal blog\, Lenscratch posted daily about thousands of photographers and their ecosystem. From resources about publishers\, grants or institutions to in-depth conversations and features that depict photographers from across the world\, Lenscratch is a focal point of the international photographic community and a vibrant forum with a global reach.\nIn its first twenty years of activity\, photographers and writers from across the world joined Smithson to sustain and drive forward this labor of love\, and grew the platform as an equitable\, transparent and supportive space for visual storytellers and their community.\nReflecting on those histories and Lenscratch’s path toward the future\, this exhibition delves into the platform’s extensive archive and returns to voices who were introduced to the photographic world on Lenscratch. In doing so\, the exhibition celebrates practitioners and the experiences that inform their perspectives at a moment when human relationships with machines of vision and capturing seem particularly fraught\, and networks of peers feel more needed than ever.\nBack to Show page HERE.\nTickets\nAdmission is FREE. Please RSVP below. Suggested Donation HERE
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