Mother Earth Speaks (Virtual)
Feb 20, 2025 – Apr 3, 2025
LACP is partnering with Photographers Without Borders (PWB), a global community of photographers and filmmakers to present projects by the Grantees of PWB’s Revolutionary Storytellers Program. The photographers use visual storytelling to present and chronicle the work of global communities who are protecting land and water, stories that capture deep connections between people and their lands, and a reciprocal relationship between human beings and the natural world.
Participating Artists
Fatma Fahmy – Lake Qarun
Ayse Gürsöz – Healing Our Waters With Kelp – Indigenous Futurist Solutions for Mother Earth
Nitashia Johnson – The Faces That Face
Alex Moana King – Keeping Pukapuka: The Motu of Self-Preservation
Tatiana Lopez – ROOTED: Sapara Women (Re)Weave their Ancestral Knowledge to Reclaim Land Rights
Celine Murillo – Where Stories Are Told and Wisdom is Remembered
Angela Ponce – Guardians of Glaciers
Curated by
Danielle Khan Da Silva, Photographers without Borders and Dr. Rotem Rozental, Los Angeles Center of Photography Executive Director and Chief Curator.
Virtual Opening Reception
Thursday, February 20th, 6-7 pm PST online
RSVP Here!
Exhibition Run Dates
February 20th – April 3rd, 2025
About
Los Angeles Center of Photography is partnering with Photographers Without Borders (PWB), a global community of photographers and filmmakers to present projects by the Grantees of PWB’s Revolutionary Storytellers Program, among them Tatiana Lopez, Alex Moana King, Ayse Gürsöz, Fatma Fahmy and Angela Ponce.
The photographers use visual storytelling to present and chronicle the work of global communities who are protecting land and water. Those stories, which emerge from indigenous communities in Alaska, Egypt, Peru and Ecuador, among others, capture deep connections between people and their lands, and a reciprocal relationship between human beings and the natural world: One that is based on giving and respect, rather than destruction and taking. Through photography and video installations, the exhibition will bring these stories into the gallery space, suggesting powerful ways to re-consider our relationship with natural resources, and one another.
The views from those communities, captured by photographers who are native to these regions, outline powerful ideas and perspectives on key issues, such as climate change and its impact on our lives, environmentalism, environmental justice and the role economic policies play in shaping our present and future.
The Curators
Danielle Khan Da Silva (she/they), is a mixed South Asian-Portuguese conservation biologist and award-winning documentary photographer/filmmaker specializing in rematriation and re-Indigenized conservation storytelling. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Photographers Without Borders®.
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.
Features
Mother Earth Speaks will feature:
- Virtual opening Reception – Thursday, February 20th, 6-7 pm PST online RSVP HERE
Instructions for Purchasing Artwork
Interested in purchasing artwork? Please email info@lacphoto.org and a representative will contact you ASAP. Thank you!