Saturday, March 7th, 8 am – 4:30 pm PDT
Sherrie Berger, Photography Consultant
Sherrie Berger is a creative consultant whose career revolves around photography. She has extensive experience in entertainment, high-end celebrity portraiture, fine art, documentary photography, all phases of production, editing, art direction, PR, marketing, communications, and media relations.
While at ABC Television, directing and coordinating publicists, photographers, producers, and editors, Sherrie and her team were responsible for the advertising and publicity photography of series, movies, and specials on the network, including high-profile content such as the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Olympics. Subsequently, at the international syndication agency Corbis (now Getty Images), she again worked with the industry’s most sought-after and talented photographers. Today Sherrie heads up her own photography consulting practice, teaches workshops, works one-on-one with all levels of photographers, produces television and motion picture shoots, and produces and promotes events such as The Lucie Awards, The Pop Art Photo Show, and MOPLA. She co-founded the nonprofit, Designed Giving, is an officer and a board member of the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), and is a member of the ICG Publicists Guild of America.
Full Day
Angela Bryant, Managing Director, Rose Gallery and Founder, Abryant Gallery
In 2009, Angela Bryant founded Abryant Gallery, an art consultation service and rotating contemporary art gallery for young/new and emerging artists. She has since curated several exhibitions, participated as both a juror and panelist, exhibited over 100 artists and installed 40 exhibits.
Although she was featured in Chicago magazine as one of “Six Young Art Curators You Should Know” Angela is a practicing artist. She is the recipient of several awards and honors and holds an MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Angela has completed several murals over the years ranging from children’s room motifs to large scale outdoor murals. Her latest on-going project is for a public art commission with Western Illinois University. Bryant won the RFQ to design the terrazzo floor of the new Performing Arts Center.
Angela Bryant has served as an adjunct professor, an independent curator, guest lecturer at multiple institutions, and is the co-founder of MOUNT Curatorial Residency. She has also written contemporary art essays and has been published twice. For three years, Angela was the Director of Exhibitions for O’Connor Art Gallery at Dominican University where her programming highlighted the work of both emerging and established artists in two-person and group exhibitions. She is currently the managing director of ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica, California.
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Victoria Chapman, Curator, VC Projects & El Nido art space, Los Angeles, CA
VC Projects was founded in 2014 by British-born Victoria Chapman, who is a Los Angeles-based curator. The company assist artists with their studio and exhibition development as well as representation at art fairs. Chapman has spent over twenty-five years working domestically and internationally in a variety of means with artists, galleries, museums, art consultants, and art institutions, assisting with administrative, curatorial, and exhibition planning. Chapman’s work experience has taken her to museums such as The Isabella Gardener Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, to name a few. For 16 years, Chapman worked for Daniel Fine Art Services as an Art Director working alongside senior curators to create art collections for boutique hotels. She is also a published writer and speaker about art history and the creative process. A featured curator for “Small Talks” (England), Call with CURA, Hieronyvision, Art Confidential Magazine and LACP’s Conversations with a Curator (Los Angeles). Further, produced VC Projects Podcast Conversations About Art on Spotify. In addition, Chapman is a Curatorial Advisor and Liaison to Casa Regis: Center for Culture and Contemporary Art, Italy and a club member of Cromwell Place, London, England.
In 2021 Chapman opened El NIDO art space featuring art exhibitions, sound installations, and classical and avant-garde music programs. The curatorial program is a balance of national and international artists. Regardless of the creative medium, El NIDO works to support a sacred space for individuation.
Victoria is not interested in seeing fashion, commercial or street photography.
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Kim Chapin, Executive Director of Photography, Los Angeles Times
Kim Chapin is the executive director of photography at the Los Angeles Times.
She previously worked at the Boston Globe as the deputy director of photography for 18 years. She was responsible for the day to day operations and visual content in both the print and online versions of the Globe as well as handling most administrative duties within the department. Chapin was a member of the Boston Globe team awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Chapin also worked at Newsday on Long Island, New York, as day and sports photo editor for eight years. She was also design and photo editor for two and a half years at the Saginaw News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with an emphasis in photojournalism.
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Paris Chong, Gallery Director, Leica Gallery
Paris Chong is the Gallery Director of the prestigious Leica Gallery Los Angeles. With over two decades of experience as a Curator she has represented galleries and artists in events including Photo LA, Photo SF, Paris Photo, Paris Photo LA, The Palm Springs Photo Festival in addition to promoting Leica Gallery Los Angeles at international shows such as Art Basel and Photo Paris. Ms. Chong has also served as a respected and sought-after portfolio reviewer for The IPA Photo Awards, Fresh Look, Photoville, The Palm Springs Photo Festival and the ongoing Meet the Curator portfolio reviews for Leica Akademie USA.
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Taylor Galloway, Founder, Smog Press, Los Angeles
Taylor Galloway (b. 1990) is an American photographer and publisher currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Galloway’s photographs explore the ideas of memory, navigation, and one’s own place in their journey. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Europe.
Smog Press is a Los Angeles-based independent art book publisher. Founded in 2021 by Adam Ianniello & Taylor Galloway, Smog Press specializes in small edition photography and design books. They create thoughtfully designed photobooks that each have their own personality. Adam and Taylor assist the photographers they work with at every step of the process – from the edit and sequence to the design of the book and materials chosen. Bookshops and galleries around the country stock Smog Press books, and they have attended and sold books at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, the SF Art Book Fair, and the Print Pomona Art Book Fair.
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Adam Ianniello, Founder, Smog Press, Los Angeles
Adam Ianniello is an American landscape photographer and publisher currently based in Los Angeles, California. His photographs have been featured in various publications such as American Chordata, C4 Journal, Def Greif, The Washington Post and Vogue as well as widely exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, London and Tokyo. Most recently his monograph ‘Angels Point’ published by GOST books was shortlisted for the Rencontres d’Arles 2023 Author Book Award.
In 2020, he co-founded the imprint Smog Press, specializing in small edition photography and design books. They create thoughtfully designed photobooks that each have their own personality. Adam and Taylor assist the photographers they work with at every step of the process – from the edit and sequence to the design of the book and materials chosen. Bookshops and galleries around the country stock Smog Press books, and they have attended and sold books at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, the SF Art Book Fair, and the Print Pomona Art Book Fair.
Full Day
Rebecca Morse, Curator of Photography, LA County Museum of Art
Rebecca Morse is Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Recent projects include Ed Ruscha: Now Then, Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You I Mean Me I Mean You, Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World’s Edge, Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld, and Larry Sultan: Here and Home. She was previously Associate Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) where she organized Amanda Ross Ho: Teeny Tiny Woman, Cai Guo-Qiang: Ladder to the Sky, Rodarte: States of Matter, The Artist’s Museum, and Florian Maier-Aichen. Upcoming projects include Laura Gilpin: Photographer of the West.
Morning Only
Rotem Rozental, Executive Director and Curator, LACP (Available May 31st PM ONLY)
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.
Afternoon Only