Brian Kosoff – Featured LACP Member, September 2019
Brian Kosoff Website: http://kosoff.com About This native New Yorker, born 1957, first became interested in art through sculpture, then found his way to photography, which ultimately became his life’s work. His earliest work, produced in his teens, was primarily focused on urban landscape. Many indications of his eventual photographic style were evident then, however landscape […]
Ann Mitchell – Featured LACP Member, August 2019
Ann Mitchell Website: https://www.ann-mitchell.com/ About Ann Mitchell is a photographer known for using the medium in an expressive and poetic manner. After completing a BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design, she worked as an award-winning advertising and editorial photographer for over a decade. She then returned to school to complete a MFA […]
Lisa Levine – Featured LACP Member, July 2019
Lisa Levine Website: https://www.lisalevinephoto.com/ About Lisa Levine is an artist who, in recent years, has been working in the area of public art, creating large scale commissioned artworks for public spaces through her company Counterpoint Studio. She has been commissioned to create works for university campuses, hospitals, public transit, recreational facilities as well as private […]
Joan Haseltine – Featured LACP Member, June 2019
Joan Haseltine Website: N/A About Joan Haseltine is relatively new to photography, having purchased her first camera 4 years ago. After a career on Wall Street and raising two children she began her pursuit of a more creative lifestyle. With a new camera in hand and many classes from LAPC she has begun a journey […]
France Leclerc – Featured LACP Member, April 2019
France Leclerc Website: http://franceleclerc.com/ Blog: http://franceleclerc.com/blog/ Instagram: franceleclerc About France Leclerc, born in Quebec, Canada, is an independent photographer who currently lives in Chicago. Her early career was in academia, teaching at MIT and the University of Chicago, but in 2005 she decided to make a change to pursue her true passion for documentary photography. […]
Diana Nicholette Jeon – Featured LACP Member, March 2019
Diana Nicholette Jeon Website: http://diananicholettejeon.com About Diana Nicholette Jeon was awarded her MFA in Imaging and Digital Art from the University of Maryland at Baltimore County in 2006. Jeon’s work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Canada and Europe; venues include the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rovereto), the Griffin Museum, the […]
Eric Davidove – Featured LACP Member, February 2019
Eric Davidove Website: https://edovephotos.myportfolio.com/ About Eric Davidove was born in Hollywood, California and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is passionate about making Street, Documentary, and Travel Photography. Many of Eric’s photos have been curated into international and national competitive exhibitions, and some have won awards and have been published. Check out […]
Alexandra DeFurio – Featured LACP Member, January 2019
Alexandra DeFurio Website: http://www.alexandradefurio.com/ About Alexandra DeFurio is a Los Angeles-based portrait and fine art photographer. Her personal work is inspired by curiosity, adventure and a drive to uncover beauty even in unconventional spaces. Her credits include photographing seven published cookbooks, sixteen teen celebrity covers for Dream magazine including Ariana Grande and Zendaya, and photographs […]
Norman Schwartz – Featured LACP Member, October 2018
Norman Schwartz Website: https://nsaphoto.myportfolio.com/ About In 2006, Norman Schwartz began capturing alluring photographic images incorporating his fascination with people and minute detail developed during his professional careers as a graduate engineer and attorney. Dr. Schwartz studied photography in community colleges and the extension school at UCLA where he was awarded first place in a student […]
JP Terlizzi – Featured LACP Member, September 2018
JP Terlizzi Website: http://www.jpterlizziphotography.com/ About JP Terlizzi is a visual storyteller who uses photography to explore themes of memory, relationship, and identity. Drawing inspiration from his personal experiences he captures moments that convey narratives—whether the story is a framed moment that reveals something about family and home, or a poetic interpretation of a fading reality, […]
J. Fredric May – Featured LACP Member, August 2018
J. Fredric May Website: https://www.jfredricmay.com/ About A graduate of Brooks Institute, J. Fredric May received his B.S. in Commercial/Color Technology and was accepted into the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop in 1989. He made his living as a photojournalist and commercial photographer traveling all over the world, telling visual stories with a signature style of bold […]
Gina Cholick – Featured LACP Member, July 2018
Gina Cholick Website: https://www.ginacholick.com/ About Gina Cholick is a Los Angeles based fine art photographer. Her work is driven by light and explores themes of desire, isolation and longing. She combines self-portraits and landscapes to evoke a sense of mystery. Gina’s fascination with photography began when taking a summer class as a child in South […]
Cheryl Medow – Featured LACP Member, June 2018
Cheryl Medow Website: http://www.cherylmedow.com/ About Santa Barbara photographic artist Cheryl Medow creates images that entice the viewer to enter the natural world and envision her wild birds in imaginary and real environments. Using classical and contemporary tools, Medow layers her photographs, weaving them together to create visual narratives. Cheryl Medow’s background in the arts is […]
Hakim Boulouiz – Featured LACP Member, March 2018
Hakim Boulouiz Website: www.hakimboulouiz.com About Hakim Boulouiz is a Professional Photographer and an Expert in Urban aesthetics with a multidisciplinary training. After receiving a diploma in Architecture, a diploma in Filmmaking, a Master’s degree in Territory Planning, he completed a PhD analyzing the mutual inspiration between urban modernity and the art of short film. Hakim […]
Leslie Jean-Bart – Featured LACP Member, December 2017
Leslie Jean-Bart Website: http://www.realityimagination.com/ About Born in Haiti where he acquired his love for the ocean, Leslie Jean-Bart has been living in New York City since he arrived in the US in 1967. After earning a master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University, Jean-Bart embarked on a photography career that resulted in the creation […]
Joshua Sarinana – Featured LACP Member, November 2017
Joshua Sariñana Website: http://www.joshuasarinana.com/ About Dr. Joshua Sariñana was born in San José, California. He obtained his neuroscience degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles and in a Nobel Prize winning lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After MIT, Sariñana became a research fellow at Harvard Medical School where he studied […]
Matthew Finley – Featured LACP Member, October 2017
Matthew Finley Website: http://www.mfinleyphoto.com/ About Whether using the handcrafted processes of tintype and ambrotype photography to echo our indelible and invariable histories, or the more recent cousin to those techniques, instant film, Matthew Finley strives to connect to the viewer on an intimate and emotional level while at the same time creating conceptual portraiture […]
Jenna Mulhall-Brereton – Featured LACP Member, September 2017
Jenna Mulhall-Brereton Website: http://jennabrereton.com/ About Jenna Mulhall-Brereton is a both a photographer and a professional in the philanthropy sector. These two passions are fueled by her travels throughout the world. Her photography is rooted in the documentary tradition, and she most often shoots in black and white. For her, this boils down what is […]
Hsin Tai Liu – Featured LACP Member, January 2017
Hsin Tai Liu Website: http://www.htlphoto.com/ Artist Statement “I have lost my inner child on the streets. I think the city kept it somewhere; and I believe I will find it back with street photography.” About Hsin-Tai has spent most of his life as a classical pianist, but has become a photographer in recent years. Hsin-Tai […]
Elisabeth Caren – Featured LACP Member, December 2016
Elisabeth Caren Website: www.ecarenphoto.com Artist Statement I use photography as a medium to explore people, emotion, stories and ideas in a classic and cinematic style. I love photographing people and highlighting what I see as the most beautiful aspect of a person, which could be a physical or personality trait, or both! I am happiest […]
Karen Hymer – Featured LACP Member, November 2016
Karen Hymer Artist Statement Remnants, a series of hand-worked photopolymer gravures, explores the relationship between the aging human body and natural elements from the Sonoran desert. I grew up in the desert collecting dead animals, dried plants and rocks. This desert landscape has inspired me to seek relationships between the transformation of my own aging […]
Kevin Weinstein – Featured LACP Member, October 2016
Kevin combines the worlds of photojournalism and artistic photography to capture memories, moods, split-second moments, and momentous events. A self-confessed voyeur prone to gaping at people longer than is socially acceptable, Kevin Weinstein uses his camera to extend, anonymize and legitimize his gaze. His resulting images are inhabited not only by captivating subjects but also […]
Amy Kanka Valadarsky – Featured LACP Member, September 2016
Artist Statement by Amy Kanka Valadarsky Between Here and Then “Between Here and Then” poses questions about our identity as human beings and the interplay of genetics, circumstances and free will in making us what we are. When I started Between Here and Then I wanted to preserve and honor the memory of the people […]
Sebastian Spader ? Featured LACP Member, July 2016
Artist Statement by Sebastian Spader ?WONDERING? is a photographic book project on black & white film exploring unique individuals and their environments through uninformed juxtaposition. The collection of 79 images was shot between 2009 and 2014 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Lockhart, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, and a few odd places somewhere in […]
Norman Schwartz ? Featured LACP Member, June 2016
Artist Statement by Norman Schwartz My devotion to photography as a passionate hobby began about five years ago. Through street photography, I seek to capture the humor, the beauty, the chaos, the emotions or the serenity of a moment in time. Most often I hide in plain view capturing random subjects I have never met […]
Lisa Guerriero – Featured LACP Member, May 2016
Artist Statement INSIDE URBAN AMERICA Lisa Guerriero emigrated from Montreal to the suburbs of Los Angeles in the early 70’s. Every summer of her childhood her parents packed up the car and went on vacation. Visiting places, such as San Francisco, South Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas. Staying in a variety of modest 1950s motels […]
Gina Cholick ? Featured LACP Member, April 2016
Artist Statement Inquietude I?m of a generation taught to follow my dreams, which is a beautiful and seemingly liberating concept. For me, life without constraints causes anxiety. I want to be and do everything. Within this infinity of choice, I freeze. Instead of taking action, hours are spent in an internal struggle. I visualize multiple […]
Eric Politzer ? Featured LACP Member, March 2016
Artist Statement “?OUT! The Transformistas of Havana? is a celebration of performers, both gay men and MTF transgenders, in the gay cabarets of Havana. It celebrates their individuality, creativity, theatricality and, most importantly, their sense of confidence in who they are as individuals and their pride in being members of a larger community. The project […]
Dotan Saguy ? Featured LACP Member, February 2016
Artist Statement Dotan Saguy is a Los Angeles based photographer born in Israel and raised in Paris, France. Dotan studied photojournalism at Santa Monica College and has attended advanced street photography workshops led by award winning photographers. Dotan?s work to date focuses on black and white street scenes of Los Angeles and his native Paris. […]