Into Your Eyes: Photographic Portraiture in the Digital Era – Virtual Exhibition Opening Reception
- Thursday
November 13, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
As we collectively experience the alienation, isolation and loneliness brought about by our current digital era, portraits seem more pressing and relevant than ever. To look at one’s eyes in an image feels like an immediate invitation to connect, to explore, to be curious about others, to wonder about what the image reveals and what it could never disclose.
FREE with RSVP
© Second Place Winner Grace Heidtke, Still del Mar, 2024
About
Top Prize Winners
First Place – Lacey Terrell
Second Place – Grace Heidtke
Third Place – Jasmine Marie Rutledge
Honorable Mentions
Bonnie Blake, Fred Brashear Jr., Todd Danforth, Diane Fenster, Lisa Guerriero, George Hudson, Ara Josefsson, Nancy Lehrer, Barkat Mehra, Laura Ritch, Evan Schwartz, Yuhan Shi, Aline Smithson, Tom Zimberoff
Juror & Curator
Nicholas Fahey, Fahey/Klein Gallery
Opening Reception (Virtual)
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 12 pm – 1 pm PST on Zoom
Exhibition Run Dates (Virtual)
November 13, 2025 – March 13, 2026
About
As we collectively experience the alienation, isolation and loneliness brought about by our current digital era, portraits seem more pressing and relevant than ever. To look at one’s eyes in an image feels like an immediate invitation to connect, to explore, to be curious about others, to wonder about what the image reveals and what it could never disclose. It’s an ongoing call for empathy, for a relationship with those we will probably never meet, whose lives we, the viewers, will never experience.
Emanuel Levinas wrote about the ethical values we reveal in the world by encountering one’s face. Roland Barthes was fascinated by portraits from the past, and the idea that he is looking at eyes that looked at the world’s greats, or that he is looking at a person no longer living. Photographic portraits shorten the distance between the past and present, between us and those around us, and might help us see beyond ourselves, beyond our time, beyond our experience in the world.
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Tickets
Admission is FREE. Please RSVP below. Suggested Donation HERE
Details
- Date: Thursday, November 13th, 2025, 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.