Wendi Schneider is a visual artist currently working in photography and mixed media. Born in Memphis, TN, she earned an AA in art history from Stephens College in Columbia, MO and a BA in painting from Newcomb/Tulane in New Orleans, LA. She turned to photography in the early ‘80s to...
John uses a Mamiya 645 film camera for much of his black-and-white work, although in the past five years he has also been working with the full-frame Nikons. Many of his monochrome gallery images were printed traditionally, and selenium toned. John is a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. State...
My photography mirrors Buddhist Dogen Zenji’s quote: “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.” I use a myriad of processes and cameras (film, video, digital, wet plate collodion, iPhone) to uncover both physical and emotional landscapes. I challenge the viewer to see beyond instinctual fear and question what is “real”...
Since I was a little boy, I dreamed of traveling “around the world” to learn about and get to know people and places that were mysterious to me. There was a time, in the midst of raising a family and building a career, I feared that dream might be out...
Hsin-Tai has spent most of his life as a classical pianist, but has become a photographer in recent years. Hsin-Tai has been recognized for his extraordinary talents as a performer and instructor. He has competed in many international competitions, and won the first Place Award in the L. A. International...
Karen Hymer – Featured LACP Member, November 2016
Karen Hymer Artist Statement Remnants, a series of hand-worked photopolymer gravures, explores the relationship between the aging human body and natural elements from the Sonoran desert. I grew up in the desert collecting dead animals, dried plants and rocks. This desert landscape has inspired me to seek relationships between the...
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Kevin Weinstein – Featured LACP Member, October 2016
Kevin combines the worlds of photojournalism and artistic photography to capture memories, moods, split-second moments, and momentous events. A self-confessed voyeur prone to gaping at people longer than is socially acceptable, Kevin Weinstein uses his camera to extend, anonymize and legitimize his gaze. His resulting images are inhabited not only...
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Amy Kanka Valadarsky – Featured LACP Member, September 2016
Artist Statement by Amy Kanka Valadarsky Between Here and Then “Between Here and Then” poses questions about our identity as human beings and the interplay of genetics, circumstances and free will in making us what we are. When I started Between Here and Then I wanted to preserve and honor...
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Sebastian Spader ? Featured LACP Member, July 2016
Artist Statement by Sebastian Spader ?WONDERING? is a photographic book project on black & white film exploring unique individuals and their environments through uninformed juxtaposition. The collection of 79 images was shot between 2009 and 2014 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Lockhart, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, and a...
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Norman Schwartz ? Featured LACP Member, June 2016
Artist Statement by Norman Schwartz My devotion to photography as a passionate hobby began about five years ago. Through street photography, I seek to capture the humor, the beauty, the chaos, the emotions or the serenity of a moment in time. Most often I hide in plain view capturing random...
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