Events and Opportunities: Medium, Palm Springs, All Media 2021 at IFAC, Duncan Miller on Selling Work

By Gerhard Clausing • I want to call your attention to the Medium Festival of Photography, currently going on mostly online (through March 13). Interesting presentations! Details here: https://www.mediumphoto.org/ Also, the Palm Springs Photo Festival will be happening April 26-29, 2021; here are the details: http://2021.palmspringsphotofestival.com/ And here are two events about submitting and selling...

The Botany of Living – Louise Russell and Douglas Stockdale

By Gerhard Clausing • Yesterday I was able to witness a particularly delightful set of artist talks, via Zoom, put on by the Photographer’s Eye Gallery in Escondido (which, by the way, also offers workshops and has a traditional darkroom). Featuring two artists from Southern California, Louise Russell and Douglas Stockdale, and moderated by the...

Photo LA 2020 and Open Show LA: Observations

By Gerhard Clausing • Even when you have only one day available to visit this annual show, the benefits are great. Galleries, individual photographers, and publishers and book authors and editors are available to discuss their various creative efforts with photo and book collectors and fans. Associated events, especially Open Show LA, are a shared...

Classic Photographs Los Angeles 2019

By Debe Arlook • For its 10-year anniversary, Classic Photographs Los Angeles christened ROSEGALLERY’s new space in Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica. Rose Shoshana (shown above, photo by Brittany Neimeth) and her team were in high gear hosting the weekend event before officially opening the doors to their new location just days later....

Linda Troeller – Leica Gallery Exhibit, Living in the Chelsea Hotel, October 24 – December 2

By Gerhard Clausing  • This exhibit of iconic images by Linda Troeller opens on Thursday, October 24, at the Leica Gallery in Los Angeles, and runs through December 2. The gallery is at 8783 Beverly Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA. Hours are Mondays through Saturdays 10-6 and Sundays 12-5. More details here. The vernissage, with your...

LACP Photo Book Competition – Deadline August 8

Photo Book Competition Call for Entries • The Los Angeles Center of Photography is pleased to announce its first Photo Book Competition. Prize winners and selected books from each category will be shown during the Portfolio Walk on Friday, September 13th of EXPOSURE Weekend at the Hotel MdR in Marina del Rey and will be on view at the...

Open Show L.A. #52

By Gerhard Clausing • On April 23, 2019, an enthusiastic audience attended Open Show L.A. #52, organized by Jonas Yip and Richard S. Chow, and hosted by Chris Davies at Fabrik Projects Gallery. Five interesting projects were presented, of which I have selected two for a more extensive description. Douglas Stockdale’s “Memory Pods” project effectively...

Photo LA 2019

The Photo LA and Focus Photo LA exhibition and events, held from January 31 through February 3, 2019, added up to an impressive opportunity for collectors and enthusiasts to study the latest offerings in photographic art and book publications. Some 60 galleries, publishers, bookstores, non-profits, schools, and other organizations were present to provide a vast...

On-line exhibition: Water & Ice

copyright Scott Mathews Within the artistic genre of landscape, documentary and still-live photography, the subject of water and all of its related forms is one of the classic themes. The subject of water has continued to evolve into contemporary art due to its metaphoric potential as representing one of the basic essences of life, thus...