Debe Arlook – Honorable Mention
one, one thousand … “I suppose you have received many letters from desperate mothers. Here is mine.” My sister wrote these words to a neurologist in 1997 when my nephew was two years old. one, one thousand… is a different kind of love story. It is an unconventional documentary exposing...
Marsha Guggenheim – Third Place Winner
Without a Map How does one move through life with the scars of the past? When I was ten, my mother died unexpectedly from a heart attack. I couldn’t understand where she went or when she would return. Just as I began to comprehend this loss, my father died. I...
Annette LeMay Burke – Second Place Winner
Memory Building My parents died within a few months of each other. They lived in the same house for 60 years, from the day they were married until their deaths. Once they were gone, I was left with my grief, memories of our lives together, and all their possessions, including...
B.A. Van Sise – First Place Winner
On the National Language In “On the National Language”, the photographer – who specializes in the intersection between poetry and the visual image- works with speakers of America’s roughly 100 endangered languages to create poignant images that reflect not only the subjects but their underlying languages and cultures. Many of...
Victor Ramos is from Los Angeles, California. Victor became interested in photography at a young age by watching his father take snapshots of the family with a 35mm Kodak camera. When Victor was 12, he asked to borrow the camera. His father never got it back. Victor has exhibited in the US and internationally...
Portfolio Reviewers – EXPOSURE WEEKEND 2023
List of reviewers bios for EXPOSURE WEEKEND 2023 Sessions will run 8:30AM-1PM (AM) and 1pm -6:00 pm (PM) PST, February 1-5, 2023 Emanuel Aguilar, Director, PATRON Gallery, Chicago Emanuel Aguilar is a gallerist and independent curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he founded PATRON, a contemporary...
Zaydee Sanchez is a Mexican American visual storyteller, documentary photographer, and writer from Tulare, California, in the San Joaquin Valley. She seeks to highlight underreported communities and overlooked narratives, with a focus on labor workers, gender, and displacement. Zaydee is an International Women’s Media Foundation grantee and both a USC...
Leba Marquez is a Los Angeles-based social documentary photographer with a discerning eye for color, composition, and narrative. Her photos, captured around the world, focus on the theme of “Who Are We?” She has exhibited throughout the US: The Los Angeles Center of Photography, St. John’s College in Santa Fe,...
Born and raised in Cleveland, OH., Dubber earned double B.A.’s, one in German and the other in Studio Art from Cleveland State University. Making her way to Los Angeles in 2003, she began a career as a unit still photographer in the entertainment industry where she currently works on feature...
Nearly two decades ago, I launched a career as a documentary/portrait photographer with a series of black and white portraits of breast cancer survivors. My camera of choice has been predominately the Mamiya RZ and the Mamiya 645. Black and white film is my “thing” which is what I chose...