Fast Forward: Analog Photography as a Third Space
Apr 10, 2026 – May 2, 2026
Top Prize Winners
1st Place: Chandler Nelson Hubbard
2nd Place: Preston Utley
3rd Place: Lynn Bierbaum
Honorable Mentions
Anna Rose Barker, Candace Robe Biggerstaff, Carol Blaise, Fred Brashear Jr., Rick Castro, Patricia Houghton Clarke, George Feucht, Alexa Frangos, Lyn Gaza, Julia Hallee, Eric B. Hanson, Richard Hay Jr., John Hesketh, Ara Josefsson, Catherine Ruby Just, Andrew Kaufman, Julia Komarova and Nicole Little, Lisa McCord, Nina Menconi, Phylicia J. L. Munn, Annalise Neil, Eric Newnam, Sebastian Nicolau, Sean Niu, Lori Pond, Victor M. Ramos, Noel Roque, Anna E. Schink, Jane Lena Schulman, Ashleigh Simons, Jeff Smudde, William Mark Sommer, Preston Utley, Elizabeth Waterman, Lareina J. Wong, Sam Yesko, Jonas Yip, James Yocuté
Jurors
Aline Smithson, Founder/Editor Lenscratch, Photographer, and Educator & Dr. Rotem Rozental, Los Angeles Center of Photography Executive Director and Chief Curator
Opening Reception
Friday, April 10th, 2026, 7-8pm @ LACP Headquarters, 2nd Floor Gallery, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 RSVP HERE
Exhibition Run Dates
April 10th, 2026 – May 2nd, 2026
About
Life with social media is exhausting. AI floods the world with machine generated images. The more connected we are, the more isolated we feel. In response, emerging voices and veteran visual storytellers turn to the tactility of the photographic object, the intentionality of the development process, and the uniqueness of a composition captured on a roll of film. They seek connection and community through photography. The future, so it seems, is analog.
Fast Forward considers how photography creates a space for camaraderie and interaction, and how analog processes play a pivotal role in such conversations.
Jurors
Aline Smithson is a visual artist, educator, and editor based in Los Angeles, California. Best known for her conceptual portraiture and a practice that uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, her work is influenced by the elevated unreal. She received a BA in art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was accepted into the College of Creative Studies, studying under artists such as William Wegman, Allen Ruppersburg, and Charles Garabian. After a decade-long career as a New York Fashion Editor, Aline returned to Los Angeles and to her own artistic practice.
She has exhibited widely including over 40 solo shows at institutions such as the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, the San Jose Art Museum, the Shanghai, Lishui, and Pingyqo Festivals in China, The Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, the Center of Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the Tagomago Gallery in Barcelona and Paris, and the Verve Gallery in Santa Fe. In addition, her work is held in a number of public collections and her photographs have been featured in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, PDN, and Communication Arts, among others.
Rotem Rozental, Ph.D, is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her upcoming book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement will be released by Routledge Publishers in March 2023, and was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.
Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department. She mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her writings about contemporary art and image-based media, as well as Jewish and Israeli art, were published in Artforum.com, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet and Forward, among other outlets.
Jurors Statement
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