Stepping through the doors of the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion late Thursday afternoon the first thing I see is the light. The building is large, open and lofty with skylights…
Author Andy Romanoff
Every year I go to Photo L. A. afraid it may have lost its charm. Every year I am wrong. Thursday night is opening night. Pretty people, artists and photographers…
What I love about shows like Photo L.A. is that they function as anti-museums, places where hi-art and street art vie for your attention without the intervention of a curated…
Paul Kopeikin recently celebrated twenty-five years as a gallerist and threw a party to mark the occasion. It was a lovely evening filled with food, drinks and people having a…
Perfect Exposure Gallery has been showing the work of upcoming and mid-career photographers for 20 years, operating from a small storefront in a neighborhood with no parking. Some months ago…
Los Angeles based photographer Michael Kirchoff is serious about Polaroid. Here’s what he has to say about shooting with it. “Using Polaroid film came to me at an early age,…
The thing that strikes me first about Fred Hoerr’s pictures is how natural they seem. He looks at street life without judgment, people engaged […]…
Last year I wrote about Photo Independent as the little guy across the street from the behemoth Paris Photo L.A. This year Paris Photo is gone and Photo Independent showed…
Once again Jeff Dunas has put together an iconic multi-day photographic love fest in the middle of paradise. For photographers seeking to learn new skills or for inspiration or immersion…
I saw the rarest of things a few weeks ago. A gallery full of people discovering a photographer they had probably never heard of and delighting in the discovery. The…