Jessica Bethel – Our Truths, Be Told – 2023
Jessica Bethel is a fine art and portrait photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BA in Art and a minor in Art History with a concentration in photography from Florida International University. She enjoys capturing Black and Brown people in a regal light. In her spare time,...
Tumi Adeleye – Our Truths, Be Told – 2023
Tumi Adeleye is a first gen Nigerian-American. She was born and raised in an African household in the heart of New York, Brooklyn before moving to the heart of Nigeria, Lagos. Through photography, Tumi explores the complexities of the cultures she grew up in from the perspective of a black...
Lisa McCord is a fine art and documentary photographer from the Arkansas Delta who lives and works in Los Angeles and Arkansas. Focusing on her experiences on her family’s cotton farm, her creative practice explores concepts of storytelling, memory, and the passage of time.
Cathy Immordino is a Los Angeles-based photographer, whose layered images combine images of personal experience and public spaces. Drawing on techniques and methods from fine art and photojournalism, Immordino’s optical layering serves as an evocative visual allegory for the complex narratives of life and memory. Immordino began her photography career...
Debra Achen – Honorable Mention
Folding and Mending The hand-folded, burned, and stitched prints in my “Folding and Mending” project are a way of expressing “the world folding in on itself.” We have created an imbalance in which our world is collapsing and my images allude to the results. While large, complex solutions are needed,...
Thirty Three + a Third Like many music lovers of a certain generation, I grew up listening to music with my friends, sprawled out on the living room rug, scanning album covers for art and information—very different from today’s solitary, playlist-driven, shuffle-play, music-on-the-go experience. We would flip through our records,...
Corinne Cobabe Rushing – Honorable Mention
Arrested Decay These images emerged from a series of recent projects exploring age, transformation, beauty and decay. Subjects which have been very present for me as I’ve entered my fifties and taken stock of my life and career.
Jacque Rupp – Honorable Mention
The Red Purse “The Red Purse” is about loss and transition. When I became a young widow, I struggled with sadness, conflict and guilt. I was grieving the loss of my own identity along with the loss of my husband. I felt numb, raw and exposed then suddenly felt very...
Ann Prochilo – Honorable Mention
This is Water “This is Water” explores self-awareness and its nemeses: blind certitude and unconsciousness. It is inspired by a speech from David Foster Wallace. He shared the story of two fish swimming along who meet an older fish swimming in the opposite direction. The older fish asks “How’s the...
Sandra Klein – Honorable Mention
Meeting the Shadow As I sit in my garden, I watch life become more and more fragmented – the pandemic, politics, issues of race and ethnicity, personal losses, all contribute to an unhinged surrealism. Here in my garden, I understand that the beauty and decay among the verdure serve as...