Lisa McCord – Featured Member, January 2023
Lisa McCord Website: lisammcordphotography.com Instagram: @lisamccord About: Lisa McCord is a fine art and documentary photographer from the Arkansas Delta who lives and works in Los Angeles and Arkansas. Focusing on her experiences on her family’s cotton farm, her creative practice explores concepts of storytelling, memory, and the passage of time. McCord received her BFA from […]
Debra Achen – Honorable Mention
Folding and Mending The hand-folded, burned, and stitched prints in my “Folding and Mending” project are a way of expressing “the world folding in on itself.” We have created an imbalance in which our world is collapsing and my images allude to the results. While large, complex solutions are needed, there are small things each […]
Jonas Yip – Honorable Mention
Thirty Three + a Third Like many music lovers of a certain generation, I grew up listening to music with my friends, sprawled out on the living room rug, scanning album covers for art and information—very different from today’s solitary, playlist-driven, shuffle-play, music-on-the-go experience. We would flip through our records, scanning and choosing from albums […]
Corinne Cobabe Rushing – Honorable Mention
Arrested Decay These images emerged from a series of recent projects exploring age, transformation, beauty and decay. Subjects which have been very present for me as I’ve entered my fifties and taken stock of my life and career.
Jacque Rupp – Honorable Mention
The Red Purse “The Red Purse” is about loss and transition. When I became a young widow, I struggled with sadness, conflict and guilt. I was grieving the loss of my own identity along with the loss of my husband. I felt numb, raw and exposed then suddenly felt very sexual and alive. Anything was […]
Ann Prochilo – Honorable Mention
This is Water “This is Water” explores self-awareness and its nemeses: blind certitude and unconsciousness. It is inspired by a speech from David Foster Wallace. He shared the story of two fish swimming along who meet an older fish swimming in the opposite direction. The older fish asks “How’s the water, boys?” The two young […]
Sandra Klein – Honorable Mention
Meeting the Shadow As I sit in my garden, I watch life become more and more fragmented – the pandemic, politics, issues of race and ethnicity, personal losses, all contribute to an unhinged surrealism. Here in my garden, I understand that the beauty and decay among the verdure serve as a metaphor for this new […]
Debe Arlook – Honorable Mention
one, one thousand … “I suppose you have received many letters from desperate mothers. Here is mine.” My sister wrote these words to a neurologist in 1997 when my nephew was two years old. one, one thousand… is a different kind of love story. It is an unconventional documentary exposing the impact a rare and […]
Marsha Guggenheim – Third Place Winner
Without a Map How does one move through life with the scars of the past? When I was ten, my mother died unexpectedly from a heart attack. I couldn’t understand where she went or when she would return. Just as I began to comprehend this loss, my father died. I was without support from my […]
Annette LeMay Burke – Second Place Winner
Memory Building My parents died within a few months of each other. They lived in the same house for 60 years, from the day they were married until their deaths. Once they were gone, I was left with my grief, memories of our lives together, and all their possessions, including a well- organized archive of […]
B.A. Van Sise – First Place Winner
On the National Language In “On the National Language”, the photographer – who specializes in the intersection between poetry and the visual image- works with speakers of America’s roughly 100 endangered languages to create poignant images that reflect not only the subjects but their underlying languages and cultures. Many of these speakers are among the […]
LACP’s 2nd Annual Project Exhibition, 2022
Photo by B.A. Van Sise, first place prize winner About In 2020, the LACP team just finished installing a first annual project exhibition when the world shut down. The last nail was hammered into the wall as the official announcement of lockdown was released and shifted life as we had known for a very, very […]
Cathy Immordino – Featured Member, December 2022
Cathy Immordino Website: www.cathyimmordino.com www.makery.la Instagram: @cathyimmordinoart About: Cathy Immordino is a Los Angeles-based photographer, whose layered images combine images of personal experience and public spaces. Drawing on techniques and methods from fine art and photojournalism, Immordino’s optical layering serves as an evocative visual allegory for the complex narratives of life and memory. Immordino began her photography career after […]
Victor Ramos – Featured Member, November 2022
Victor Ramos Website: www.victormramosphoto.com Instagram: @vmramosphoto @portraitsofthequantum About: Victor Ramos is from Los Angeles, California. Victor became interested in photography at a young age by watching his father take snapshots of the family with a 35mm Kodak camera. When Victor was 12, he asked to borrow the camera. His father never got it back. Victor has exhibited in […]
Portfolio Reviewers – EXPOSURE WEEKEND 2023
List of reviewers bios for EXPOSURE WEEKEND 2023 Sessions will run 8:30AM-1PM (AM) and 1pm -6:00 pm (PM) PST, February 1-5, 2023 Emanuel Aguilar, Director, PATRON Gallery, Chicago Emanuel Aguilar is a gallerist and independent curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he founded PATRON, a contemporary art gallery with a focus […]
Zaydee Sanchez – Featured Member, October 2022
Zaydee Sanchez Website: https://www.zaydeesanchez.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zaydee.s/ About: Zaydee Sanchez Zaydee Sanchez is a Mexican American visual storyteller, documentary photographer, and writer from Tulare, California, in the San Joaquin Valley. She seeks to highlight underreported communities and overlooked narratives, with a focus on labor workers, gender, and displacement. Zaydee is an International Women’s Media Foundationgrantee and […]
Comeback: LACP’s 8th Annual Members’ Exhibition, 2022
Photo by Jonas Yip, first place prize winner About As the world continues to navigate unpredictable conditions, as we continue to come in and out of safe spaces, wherever they may be, we need to learn, re-learn and learn again how to be with one another and find our place in the world. The late […]
Leba Marquez – Featured LACP Member, September 2022
Leba Marquez Website: https://www.lebamarquezphotography.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lebamar/ About: Leba Marquez Leba Marquez is a Los Angeles-based social documentary photographer with a discerning eye for color, composition, and narrative. Her photos, captured around the world, focus on the theme of “Who Are We?” She has exhibited throughout the US: The Los Angeles Center of Photography, St. John’s […]
Undercurrents: Pop Up Members Exhibition at Summer on 7th
Photo by Ann Prochilo, exhibiting artist Organized as part of Inner-City Arts Annual Party About On view as part of Inner-City Arts Summer on 7th event, this group exhibition begins in what lies right beneath the surface. Our vulnerabilities, as individuals and communities, are an integral part of how we experience ourselves and those around […]
Public Record: Portraits of Affection and Intimacy (A virtual exhibition)
Photo by Xiangyun Chen, first place prize winner About LGBTQIA+ life and experience are constantly contested, negated and marginalized within public discourse. As Gilbert Baker, who created the pride flag as a symbol of hope in 1978, once said, “When all else fails, art is the ultimate weapon.” With this in mind, this virtual exhibition […]
Beth Dubber – Featured LACP Member, August 2022
Beth Dubber Website: http://www.bethdubber.com Hollywood On The Spectrum Website: https://hollywoodonthespectrum.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethdubberphotography About: Beth Dubber Born and raised in Cleveland, OH., Dubber earned double B.A.’s, one in German and the other in Studio Art from Cleveland State University. Making her way to Los Angeles in 2003, she began a career as a unit still photographer […]
Jean Karotkin – Featured LACP Member, May 2022
Jean Karotkin Website: https://www.jeankaotkin.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeankarotkin About: Jean Karotkin Nearly two decades ago, I launched a career as a documentary/portrait photographer with a series of black and white portraits of breast cancer survivors. My camera of choice has been predominately the Mamiya RZ and the Mamiya 645. Black and white film is my “thing” which […]
LACP’s 8th Annual Street Photography Around the World Exhibition – Virtual Gallery
Photo by Ellen Mitchell, top prize winner for a Series (body) of Work Images: View the exhibiting work by watching the video below. Join us for our 8th Annual “Street Photography Around the World” Exhibition! Thursday, April 7, 5 pm PST Virtual Opening Night Reception About: Every year, the Los Angeles Center of Photography […]
Jacinta Giles – Featured LACP Member, March 2022
Jacinta Giles Website: https://www.jacintagiles.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacintagiles/ About: Jacinta Giles is an artist and researcher based in Brisbane (Meanjin), Australia. For 2022, she has work showing at Exposure Photography Festival, Calgary, Rotterdam Photo, Netherlands, and Tiradentes Photography Festival, Brazil. Giles’s work has been exhibited in Australia, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States and […]
Fresh As ____: Photographic Meditations from the Black Vanguard (Regarding A New Esthetic)
Photo by Alexis Hunley, exhibiting artist About In honor of Black History, LACP is proud to produce the pop-up exhibition “Fresh As ____”: Photographic Meditations from the Black Vanguard (Regarding A New Esthetic)” The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles-based photographer Ali LeRoi and Philadelphia-based photographer Shawn Theodore. Six talented artists were carefully selected to […]
Krysia Lukkason – Featured LACP Member, February 2022
Krysia Lukkason Website: https://www.krysialukkason.com About: Krysia Lukkason is a fine art photographer from Santa Rosa, California. Krysia draws inspiration from the landscape as she explores themes regarding the human condition, duality of life, and relationships with our internal and external environments. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography from California State University, Fullerton, […]
Annette LeMay Burke – Featured LACP Member, January 2022
Annette LeMay Burke Website: http://atelierlemay.com/ About: Annette LeMay Burke is a photographic artist and Northern California native who lives in the heart of Silicon Valley. A longtime observer of the evolution of the western landscape, Burke is interested in how our environment changes over time and the artifacts—both tangible and temporal—that are left behind. She […]
Portfolio Reviewers – EXPOSURE WEEKEND 2022
List of reviewers bios for EXPOSURE WEEKEND 2022 Sessions will run 8:30AM-1PM (AM) and 1pm -5:30pm (PM) PST, January 27-30, 2022 Alexa Becker, Contributing Editor, Kehrer Verlag Alexa Becker is Contributing Editor for photography and art books for Kehrer Verlag, a Germany-based publisher founded in 1995. After earning her Master’s in Art History from […]
LACP’s Sixth Annual “The Creative Portrait” Exhibition – 2021
Photo by Tuan Bui, exhibiting artist About We are pleased to announce LACP’s Sixth Annual “The Creative Portrait” Exhibition juried by Aline Smithson. This exhibition will be shown at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, October 24 – November 17, 2021. An opening day reception is scheduled for Sunday, October 24, 10 am – 5 […]
Mona Kuhn’s Work and Auction Photographs – 2021
Photo by Mona Kuhn Tuesday, September 7 – Thursday, October 7, 2021 Los Angeles Center of Photography 5566 W. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 The Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) is honored to reopen our gallery to the public with an exhibition of Mona Kuhn’s large scale photographs. Mona Kuhn is the honoree […]