Artist Statement I should have come earlier In October 2025, my little sister came to live with my husband and me in Los Angeles permanently. At the time, I had no idea it would happen. She had simply come to Los Angeles to see if it was the hellhole my...
Artist Statement Articulating a sense of place, for me, involves the regret that comes with irrevocable change. Often I only notice something when it is slipping away. The images in this series are part of my process to decide whether I stay in Los Angeles or move somewhere else. My family first came here in the 1880s. For generations our history was intertwined...
Artist Statement Ghost Town Impressions of Ventura Boulevard, 2026 Ventura Boulevard is a study in cognitive dissonance; a vortex of immense activity within a startling emptiness. Stretching 18 miles, the Boulevard is the world’s longest continuous retail corridor, serving more than three million residents. Its nearly 4,000 businesses employ over 27,000 people, generating $1.4 billion in payroll and an estimated $10 billion in annual revenue....
Fleeting:Navigating LA Streets and Motherhood Shuttling my fifteen-year-old son across Los Angeles for school and soccer, our car has become an extension of our home. For six months, I have documented the quiet and chaotic rhythms of this daily commute, capturing intimate moments inside the vehicle alongside the abstract visuals...
Artist Statement The Geography of Memory These photographs trace the geography of my youth in San Francisco. During those years I was a street kid, and the city became both my refuge and my teacher. They are less a history of the city than a map of the places that...
Artist Statement This project is a layered portrait of San Francisco’s Mission District, seen through its streets, storefronts, windows, shop interiors, posters, murals, and everyday encounters. The images move between direct street observation and more fragmented, unmanipulated photographs shaped by glass, glare, reflections, and weathered surfaces. Together, they show the...
Artist Statement Pets and Their Peeps explores the relationships between people and the animals they call family. Pets are companions, sources of emotional support, and constant presences through life’s changes. While every relationship is unique, the bond between a person and their pet reflects qualities that are deeply human: love, loyalty, vulnerability, and...
Artist Statement San Francisco’s Castro District evolved from an Irish Catholic immigrant neighborhood known as Eureka Valley into a thriving “gayborhood” in the late 1960s. Those early years marked a brief but extraordinary period of liberation and community that would last little more than a decade before the AIDS epidemic...
Bio Kelly Fogel is a Los Angeles-based documentary photographer whose long-term projects explore identity, resilience, and social justice across a wide range of communities and causes. With over two decades of photographing protests and social movements, her work documents both global struggles and personal transformations. From the skateboarders and surfers...
Bio Evan Williams, 46, is a writer and photographer based in Fort Myers, Fla. He has an English degree from Florida Gulf Coast University and completed the one-year professional certificate program at the Los Angeles Center of Photography in 2023. He grew up in Fort Scott and Wichita, Kan. and...