Summertime Vintage: RSVP, In-Person Exhibition Opening Reception
- Thursday
August 7, 2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Summertime Vintage considers lo-fi histories, and our relationships with photographic and technological tools, as well as the ways in which they produce new visual languages, concepts and ideas.
FREE with RSVP
© Photo by 2nd Place Winner Peggy Reynolds
About
Top Prize Winners
First Place – Rebecca Hackermann
Second Place – Peggy Reynolds
Third Place – Mica Meyer
Honorable Mentions
Richard Alexander, Federica Armstrong, Annie Briard, Cameron Coley-Smith, Valentino Constantinou, Dora Duan, Robert Gideon, Mark Harmel, Susan Isaacson, Epiphany Knedler, George Krause, James Kuo, Neil Leventhal, Jasmine Lord, James Malsich, Kerry Mansfield, Erika Maru, Catherine Panebianco, michael rababy, Matthew Ragen, Fray Reyes, Sandra Richardson, Noel Roque, Sara Silks, Bing-Chi WU, Carl Young
Juror & Curator
Dr. Rotem Rozental, Los Angeles Center of Photography Executive Director and Chief Curator.
Opening Reception (In-Person)
Thursday, August 7th, 2025, 6-8pm, 2025 RSVP Below
Exhibition Run Dates
August 7th, 2025 – September 27th, 2025
About
Summertime Vintage will be shown in LACP’s new 2nd floor gallery space.
It’s summer, let’s play. Inspired by LACP’s location between the Toy District, Little Tokyo and the Arts District in Los Angeles, this show invited photographers that explore vintage and lo-fi aesthetics and technologies from a multitude of perspectives, practices and approaches.
As a style and an approach, lo-fi aesthetics rose to prominence in the 1990s. It was embedded in the Gen-X nostalgia for the hues and cultural objects of their 1970s childhood. It was also a rejection of a cultural mainstream that seemed to have preferred conventions over creativity, and was utilizing those as a way to block entry into centers of production. Lo-fi was connected to street culture, to underground music, to an existence that recognizes things might not get any better. And if they don’t, we should probably make the most of what we have and do it with old Kodaks, if we can.
The introduction of digital cameras during the same decade served a harsh blow to the traditional photographic industry. Slowly, it also nourished a turn toward disposable, snapshot or toy cameras that found their way to heart of DIY indie culture. By the 2010s, it was hard to find a single Urban Outfitters store without an old camera section.
This exhibition considers such histories, and our relationships with photographic and technological tools, as well as the ways in which they produce new visual languages, concepts and ideas.
Back to Show page HERE.
Tickets
Admission is FREE. Please RSVP below. Suggested Donation HERE
Details
- Date: Thursday, August 7, 6pm-8pm PST
- Free and Open to the Public
- Location: Downtown Los Angeles (LACP Headquarters) 2nd Floor, 252 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.
- Parking: Street parking, Public parking: Terasaki Budokan Recreation Center (paid, underground, just across the street from LACP) and Joe’s Auto Parks Parking, 330 Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (paid, surface).
If you have additional questions please email info@lacphoto.org.