Expand and Contract: American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century – Virtual Exhibition Opening Reception

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Top Prize Winners

1st Place: Timothy Eastman
2nd Place: Kelly Fogel
3rd Place: Evan Williams

Honorable Mentions

Eliot Allen, Karen Elizabeth Baker, Josh Bergeron, Bonnie Blake, Jonathan William Brown, Annette LeMay Burk, Miles Harrison Carter, Rafael Cruz Jr., Pieter de Koninck, Thouly Dosios, Yvette Marie Dostatni, Timothy Eastman, Jake Effress, Robin Fader, Kelly Fogel, Nikka Gershman, Eric B. Hanson, Richard Hay Jr., Virginia Hines, Rohina Hoffman, Paul Kessel, Anne Kornfeld, Suz Lipman, Erica Kelly Martin, Terrell Otey, Tim Passaro, Julie Pawlowski, Robyn Reed, Karen Safer, Philip Sager, David Schulman, B. A. Van Sise, Rusty Weston, markewilliams, Jack the Wolfman

Juror & Curator

Dr. Rotem Rozental, Executive Director and Chief Curator, LACP 

Opening Reception (Virtual)

Thursday, July 16, 2026, 12 pm – 1 PST on Zoom RSVP BELOW!

Exhibition Run Dates (Virtual)

July 16th, 2026 – October 16th, 2026

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Winners have been invited to display their work in a curated exhibition at LACP’s gallery in Little Tokyo, in addition to being featured online on the LACP website alongside other selected works.

The third edition of Expand and Contract marks USA’s 250^th anniversary and the second quarter of this century by focusing on American documentary photography today.

Expand and Contract is a series of exhibitions that explore the transformations of contemporary photographic practice, and its meeting points with both conceptual legacies and technological innovations. (See the 2024 edition here and 2025 here). By turning its attention to documentary photography, it suggests that documentary is a highly complex, historically and socially contingent field of vision. The exhibition turns a documentarian lens toward life in America and invites an understanding of the collective through a kaleidoscopic view of the everyday.

It also asks to observe a photographic tradition that prioritizes a connection—between photographers and their subjects, whether those are human or part of the natural world. At this moment, which seems to have been defined by a sense of fragmentation and alienation, documentary seems to carry a critical potential for a needed point of contact.

Back to Show page HERE.

Tickets

Admission is FREE. Please RSVP below. Suggested Donation HERE

Details

• Date: Thursday, July 16th, 2026, 12-1pm PST
• Who: Open to anyone with RSVP
• Cost: FREE
• Location: Online via Zoom

A details email complete with the Zoom link will be sent to the attendees prior to the start date. Please read the instructions included in the email. If you have additional questions please email info@lacphoto.org.

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