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99+24+3 by Allison Strauss
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Allison Strauss says, "These photographs are from two ongoing street photography series, L.A. Ghost Wheels and Scoots of Hazard, both contending with contemporary Los Angeles.

I began L.A. Ghost Wheels in 2014, with around 300 photographs to date. The project is an "I Spy" game of vintage cars on the streets of Los Angeles. It wasn't exactly healthy for L.A. to become defined by car culture in the mid-twentieth century, but it has left us with a fleet of unique classic vehicles still out and about as the city is redefined in the twenty-first century, this time by gentrification and its attendant homogenization. In this context, vintage cars emerge as colorful old-timers, the embodiments of their (original) owners--classic Hollywood stars, zoot suited Pachucos, drag racers, surfers, rockers... I photograph the occasional cherry showstopper, but mostly more low-key vehicles and downright beaters that no one else has reason to stop for. I'm just glad to see them hanging in there in this increasingly less livable city, making the streets, ironically, more human.  

Since 2019, I’ve been photographing keeled over electric scooters on the streets of Los Angeles, a project I call Scoots of Hazard. App-based, for-profit electric scooter rental touches on so many of this city’s current issues: Privatization, gentrification, tourism, public transportation, as well as broader issues of technological accessibility and ableism. The scooters raise the essential question, "Who are the streets for?" (This in the same era as civil rights protesters are driven to chant "Whose streets?" "Our streets!") Never is this question more pointed than when a scooter has collapsed across the sidewalk. Who's benefiting from this? Who's losing out? Riders often describe electric scooters as a great convenience and a green alternative to cars.

But these arguments make a leap over the interconnected issues that really determine "greenness" and the convenience of life in Los Angeles (ie. livability). Likewise, there's a tell-tale absurdity to scooters tossed aside on a street corner like new toys come Christmas afternoon, or fallen down like drunks in an alley. By capturing this absurdism, I hope to convey the sham of this neoliberal enterprise and the failings of my city. These photographs are not despairing, however. To see the absurdism requires a sense of humor."

Allison Strauss (b. 1990) is an artist working in photography, collage, assemblage and painting in her native Los Angeles. She attended a Waldorf school and the Armory Center for the Arts as a child, followed by Barnsdall Junior Arts Center and Ryman Arts as a teen.

She interned at Peter Fetterman Gallery at Bergamot Station, which holds one of the largest collections of twentieth century fine art photography in the U.S. She earned her BA in Art from Colorado College in 2012. She then assisted at the former Offramp Gallery in Pasadena. Offramp represented Anita Bunn, whose photographs and videos of L.A. treetops influenced Strauss' emergent interest in photographing her everyday surroundings.

Strauss lived in Portland, Oregon for a time in the 2010s, attending Pacific Northwest College of Art and contributing art reviews to The Portland Mercury. She now contributes to Artillery art magazine. In October 2021, she was artist in residence at Secret Land in Altadena, a residency program for emerging artists in greater Los Angeles. 

Photography Career Highlight: A panel of respected local photographers--Jerry DeWilde, Catherine McGann, and Ara Oshagan--selected an L.A. Ghost Wheels photograph as one of four professional category winners in a 2018 competition and exhibition held by California District Assemblymember Laura Friedman. (The annual “Gallery 43” invites residents of assembly district 43 to submit photographs taken in the district.) The photograph hung in Friedman's office for the year.

Select CV:

2021 Vices (online)—Arc Gallery & Studios, San Francisco, CA

2020 Assorted collages, Exposition Review, Volume V “Act/Break” 

2019 Dog Walker on loan—Silver Park Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Street Traces (solo)—Groundwork Coffee Co., Venice location, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Satan’s Food Court—Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA

2019 Buzzsaw—Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA

2017 Groundcover PNCA MFA exhibition--Lodge Gallery, Allied Works Architecture, Portland, OR

2017 Surrealist Cafe (solo)--Hungry Heart Bakery, Portland, OR

2016 Spitting Image: Figurative Painting by Female Artists--Basic Flowers, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Literature for Life benefit--Pop Secret Gallery, Eagle Rock, CA


www.allisonstraussart.com
@allisonstraussart
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BEAUTY BEHIND WIRES by Armineh Hovanesian
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Armineh Hovanesian says, "My photographs are not usually planned in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on the viewer’s mind, something has been accomplished.  I see what eye see."

Bio: Awarded, Published and Internationally Exhibited photographer:  Born in Paris, raised in Tehran and Boston, with a little over 2 years of dormancy in Lisbon, Armineh is a photographer now based in Los Angeles, capturing moments since 2009. She is one of the early members of the iphoneography movement. She has had no professional training and is self-taught however; her vision has been the driving force behind her creations. Her weapons of choice are her iPhone 11 Pro Max, as well as her Sony ILCE-5000 camera and M Minolta XD11 camera.

Career Highlights:

·       iNstantes Avintes International Photography Festival – Solo Exhibition at Quinta da Agraceira, Avintes, Portugal April 30 - May 30, 2021

·        1st Annual Portrait of America - Silver Winner and Award of Distinction

·        Tokyo International Foto Awards – Silver Winner People / Self-Portrait

·        12th Edition of Julia Margaret Cameron Awards – Winner Digital Manipulation & Collage

·        Lumier Photography Awards - Mobile Photographer of the Year

·        7th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards – one of 15 women photographers selected by Jill Greenberg

·        4th Berlin Foto Biennale – Exhibitor as one of the winners of 7th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards

·        Mobile Camera Club’ Avatars Exhibition at MK2 Cinema in Paris - June 3 – September 30, 2015

 
WORK FOR SALE:

All photos: 14x14
On Archival Paper
$300 Unframed
Limited Edition of 15
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Contact: 
www.armineh-photography.com
Instagram: @armineh_sees_in_blackandwhite
Instagram: @armineh29
 
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HOME FOR THE EVENING by Armineh Hovanesian
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REFLECTED by Armineh Hovanesian
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LATE AFTERNOON, JERUSALEM by Carole Glauber
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Carole Glauber says, "Looking Wide- I imagine my view through the camera lens as a theater proscenium—a stage to reveal poetic randomness, the magic of the moment, and life’s idiosyncrasies. The release of the shutter preserves the fraction of a second between present and future—the culmination of what just happened and is about to happen. I am reflecting on my personal journeys and the importance of quiet observations—that sometimes we need to lose ourselves in the chaos to create order. I hope to engage in the complexities of life where hidden places are everywhere but might be revealed in different ways. Night can be time of uncertainty, day can be exposing, and twilight brings a mystical luminosity, but all allow for intuitive thinking.CV-one page version from 2018-2021."

Carole Glauber is an internationally exhibiting, award-winning photographer and photo-historian, based in Israel since 2017.

She has a B.S.Ed and a M.Ed. and is the author of two books: “Personal History” (Daylight Books) and “Witch of Kodakery: The Photography of Myra Albert Wiggins 1869-1956” (Washington State University Press).

Her photographs have been exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Australia including the Head On Photo Festival, PH21 Gallery in Budapest, ValidFoto in Barcelona, Festival Pil’Ours in France, and The Center for Fine Art Photography, Blue Sky Gallery, ASmith Gallery, Soho Photo Gallery, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum  amongst others in the United States.

Her book "Personal History" received three gold and bronze medals from the Budapest, Tokyo, and Moscow International Foto Awards.

Her photography honors include PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, the International Photography Awards, the Tokyo International Foto Awards, the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, the Pollux Awards, the Mobile Photography Awards, PHmuseum, and the International Krappy Kamera Competition. She is the recipient of a Peter E. Palmquist Photographic History Research Fellowship, a Winterthur Museum Fellowship, an Oregon Humanities Research Fellowship, and numerous grants for her photographic research.

She continues her studies and teaching of History of Photography and making photographs of her experiences and observations based on her curiosity and sense of spontaneity.

EDUCATION:
M.Ed. University of Idaho
B.S.Ed. History, Northern Illinois University
AWARDS:
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 17th ed., Honorable Mention, 2021
Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Silver Medal for Personal History, 2021
International Photography Awards, One Shot-Our Times-Honorable Mention, 2021
Moscow International Foto Awards, Bronze Medal for Personal History, 2021
Pollux Award, Honorable Mentions, 2021
Julia Margaret Cameron Award, 16th ed, Honorable Mentions, 2021
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Bronze Medal for Personal History, 2020
Budapest International Foto Awards, Gold Medal for Personal History, 2020
PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, Silver Winner, 2020
PH21 Gallery, Exhibition: Urban, Honorable Mention, 2020
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, 15th Edition
All-About Photos Awards, Finalist, 2020
Mobile Photography Awards, Ninth Edition, Honorable Mention, 2019
Pollux Awards, 14th Edition, Winner and Honorable Mentions
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, 14th Edition, Honorable Mentions
International Photography Awards, Smartphone Category, Series Honorable Mention, 2019.
Pollux Awards, 13th Edition, Winner and Honorable Mentions
Texas Photographic Society Featured Photographer, June, 2019
International Photography Awards: OneShot Street Photography Awards, Honorable Mentions
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, 13th Edition, Honorable Mentions
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Honorable Mention, 2018.
Pollux Awards, 12th Edition, Winner and Honorable Mention.
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, 12th Edition, Honorable Mentions
Ph21 Gallery, Exhibition: Nocturnal, Juror’s Choice, 2018
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, 11th Edition, Honorable Mention and Finalist
Pollux Awards, 11th Edition, Winner, Finalist, and Honorable Mention, 2017
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, 10th Edition, Finalist
Soho Photo Gallery, International Krappy Kamera Contest, Honorable Mention, 2016
Lightbox Photography Gallery, Plastic Fantastic VII, Honorable Mention, 2016

 
EXHIBITIONS: 
Head on Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia, 2021
Foto Nostrum, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Barcelona, Spain, 2021.
Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Center, Once Upon a Time, Juror: Juror: Paula Tognarelli, Boston, MA, 2021
PH21 Gallery, -scapes, Curator, Zsolt Batori, Budapest, Hungary, 2021
Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Relative Relations, New York, New York, 2021.
All-About-Photo, Travels, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Curator, 2021
South[x]Southeast Photogallery, Urban Landscape, Julie Grahame and Stella Kramer, curators, Molena, Georgia, 2021.
Soho Photo Gallery, Krappy Kamera Exhibit, Juror, Ann Jastrab, 2021
Davis/Orton Gallery, Life in the Pandemic, Juror: Karen Davis, 2021
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, A New Leaf, Jurors, Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy, 2021
Don’t Smile, Did That Just Happen?, Don’t-smile.com 2021.
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Nordstrom Gallery, Jones gallery, and Franson Gallery, Somerville, MA 2020
PhotoPlace Gallery, Landscape, Juror: Ann Jastrab, Middlebury, Vermont, 2020
Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Urban, Curator: Zsolt Batori, 2020
Griffin Museum of Photography 26th Juried Exhibition, Juror: Alexa Dilworth, Winchester, MA 2020
Foto Nostrum, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards and Pollux Awards Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 2020.
Griffin Museum of Photography, Corona-It’s All About the Light, Online Exhibition, 2020.
PHmuseum Mobile Photography Book, Familiar Stranger, presented at Spazio Labo, Bologna, Italy, January, 2020.
Praxis Gallery, After Dark, Juror: Layne Kennedy, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2019.
Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Center, Primary Source, Juror: Paula Tognarelli, Boston, MA, 2019-2020.
Time to Think: Shutterhub Exhibition, Festival Pil’Ours, France, 2019
Gallery Valid Foto, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards and Pollux Awards Exhibition, Barcelona, 2019
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Shibuya Cultural Center, Honorable Mention, 2018/2019.
Light Leaked, Flawed Beings, Curator, Michael Kirchoff, lightleaked.com., 2018.
Ph21 Gallery, Nocturnal, Juror’s Choice, Curator: Zsolt Batori, Budapest, Hungary, 2018.

To contact Carole Glauber
e-mail: cgpdx5@gmail.com
www.caroleglauber.com
Instagram: @carole_glauber
 
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NEW YORK CITY by Carole Glauber
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PASSEIG DE GRACIA, BARCELONA by Carole Glauber
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ROOFTOP, JERUSALEM by Carole Glauber
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STAIRS, HERZLIYA COPY by Carole Glauber
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URBAN POOL, JERUSALEM by Carole Glauber
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FAIRFAX & WILSHIRE LOS ANGELES by Connie Conway
SECOND PLACE
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Connie Conway says, "'L.A. After SUNSET' – A series of photographs that capture the beauty and essence of Los Angeles’s dramatic transformation at sunset. Each image is an illumination of the oddities of the respective landscape – both physical and societal. The end result? Powerful images which evoke a unique combination of gritty reality and ethereal make believe!"

Connie Conway is a fine art photographer, on the board of trustees for the Museum of Neon Art and producer of photo shoots for advertising photographers. She has produced campaigns for some of the industry’s top photographers and brands over the past 25 years.

Connie’s path to photography started in South Jersey where she grew up. At the age of five she received a Polaroid Land Camera and has been making photographs ever since. 

She always had a love for neon and it flourished during her project L.A. After SUNSET, a series of images that capture the beauty and essence of Los Angeles’ dramatic transformation at sunset.  In 2016, L.A. After SUNSET the book was published. Her Canter’s image is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Neon Art.  

In March of 2020, in the midst of the global pandemic. Connie created an entirely new body of work along with a video telling the story of A Different Light, images of an empty and isolated Los Angeles. 

The video along all of Connie’s work can be viewed on her website:

www.connieconway-fineartphotography.com
www.connieconway.com
Instagram: @connieconway
Facebook: connie.conway
connie@conniecownay.com – email
 
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LAX LOS ANGELES by Connie Conway
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BROADWAY DTLA by Connie Conway
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UNION 76 STATION BEVERLY HILLS by Connie Conway
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BELLFLOWER BAGEL by Connie Conway
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BENDIX BUILDING by Connie Conway
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DOOMSAYER by David Roberson
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David L. Robertson says, "I have been seriously involved in photography for almost fifty years and I have struggled throughout that time in trying to put into words what I am attempting to convey in my images.  In 2007, Jay Maisel described them as conveying solitude, but not loneliness. 

I agreed immediately, and I have not been able to come up with a better description since then.  I want the viewer to draw a sense of comfort from my captures, but at the same time I am attracted to natural and man-made design.  For all of those years, I have worked hard to create strong compositions and have only lately come to the realization that the strongest composition suffers if it does not also convey some emotion. That is my current quest.  What I love about photography is that it is a continuing journey of discovery and growth, and the destination is not nearly as important as the travel.
 
My interest in photography began my freshman year of college in 1968 where I had access to a darkroom.  I converted from film to digital in 2003 with the Nikon D100 at a cost of $2,000 for slightly more than 6 MP on a cropped sensor.   Now I am a dedicated Nikon, Leica,  and Pentax (medium format) shooter, depending on the nature of the shoot.  

I have been a Lightroom workshop instructor for the Barefoot Contessa Photo Adventures at various locations around the country and I am currently a workshop instructor at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, California, where I have taught over thirty courses in Lightroom, digital printing, black and white conversion software, and studio lighting.  

Besides teaching, I have also been accepted into over fifty juried competitions, from Sacramento to Paris and Berlin.  I have had the honor of appearing in the gallery at the Center for Photographic Art eight times since 2012 in both the annual members’ exhibit and the international exhibit, both of which are limited to 45 prints selected out of well over 1,000 entries each time.  

In addition to juried exhibits, I have had solo and group exhibits in the Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, the Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA, the main gallery at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center (twice), the Grants Pass Museum of Art in Oregon and the PRAXIS Photo Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  I also had several of my portraits exhibited in a group exhibit in Berlin, Germany in 2016.  

My work has also appeared in Black and White magazine multiple times, most recently in the February 2022 edition. Finally, I have judged local photography competitions for the last five years, many of them multiple times."

 www.dlrobertsonphotography.com
Instagram: @davidrobertson1950 
 
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LUNCH BREAK by David Roberson
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NEW YORK VIEW by David Roberson
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NEWS ON POINTE by David Roberson
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UMBRELLAS OVER BONN by David Roberson
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WAITING FOR THE TRAIN by David Roberson
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A CITY FULL OF STRANGERS by Dennis Geller
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Dennis Geller says of his series, 'A HOME/TOWN', "The place that I live is in many was totally different fromanyplace I have lived before. Born in the first and sixth largest cities in thecountry (Brooklyn, NY,  of course)  I had my share of Midwest and Upstate kindsof towns during my schooling and early years, but eventually settled down in acosmopolitan suburb adjacent to Boston, where I raised my kids.

 A few life changes later I find myself in a smaller sleepysuburb, surrounded by more of the same. A nice enough place, to be sure, butwithout the sense that there were always things happening, and things tosee.  When I first moved here I foundlots to photograph that matched my mood, but not much has changed in these fewyears, and I’d been suffering under the feeling that I'd taken all the picturesthere were for me to take.

These images attempt to describe the particularity of thisplace in terms of its essential sameness to other places, at least in theregion if not I much of the country."

Dennis Geller came to the artworld after careers as a University Professor and researcher in Mathematics andComputer Science, a software development manager, a business news analyst and aHigh School Math Teacher. He wrote two textbooks and morethan 40 scientific papers to his credit. He started doing photography in 2014 and since then has had 24 works accepted into juried competitions; in the last year he’s gotten Honorable Mentions in shows in Los Angeles, Plymouth, Mass andWinchester, Mass at the prestigious Griffin Museum of Photography.

Career Highlights:

2020 Abstractions, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA.  2020 53rd Annual Juried Art Show, Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA. 2020 6th Annual Group Show, Davis-Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY.  2020 Transformation 2020, Plymouth (MA) Center for the Arts.  2020 26th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA. Honorable Mention.  2020 Coffeeshop Artists (three entries accepted) Commerce Place, Malden, MA.  2019 PHOTOcentric 2019 (two entries accepted), Garrison Art Center,  2019 Transformations (Digital Exhibition), Pennsylvania Center For Photography,  2019 About Lighting LA Photo Curator, online exhibition:   Honorable Mention,  Subsequently chosen as one of "2019 Top 40 Images Submitted to L.A. Photo Curator & N.Y. Photo Curator" 2019 Fine Art of Photography 2019, Plymouth (MA) Center for the Arts. Honorable Mention  2019 LensCulture Art Photography Competition Gallery 2019 Abstracts Matter, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2018 Abstraction, Lafayette City Center Gallery (Griffin Museum), Boston, MA  2018 National Juried Photography Exhibition, Wickford Art Association, Kingstown,RI.   2018 Color 2018, 3 Square Art, Fort Collins,CO.  2018 Fourth Annual Group Show, Davis-Orton Gallery, Hudson, N.Y. 

www.dennisgeller.net
www.instagram.com/gellerdennis/
 
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IS, WAS, AND WILL BE by Dennis Geller
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SWEPT ALONG by Dennis Geller
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TIME TO GET ORGANIZED by Dennis Geller
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WAITING FOR THE GAME by Dennis Geller
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WHERE ELSE COULD I BE by Dennis Geller
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BERNAUER STRASSE by Diane Meyer
BEST SERIES
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Diane Meyer says, "I recently completed series of 43 hand-sewn photographs taken along the entire roughly 100 mile path of the former Berlin Wall. Sections of the photographs have been obscured by cross-stitch embroidery sewn directly into the photograph.

The embroidery is made to resemble pixels and borrows the visual language of digital imaging in an analog, tactile process. In many images, the embroidered sections represent the exact scale and location of the former Wall offering a pixelated view of what lies behind. In this way, the embroidery appears as a translucent trace in the landscape of something that no longer exists but is a weight on history and memory.

By using the embroidery in a way that is reminiscent of pixels, a connection is being made between forgetting and file corruption.The images were taken in the city center as well as the outskirts of city where I followed the former path of the wall through suburbs and forests. I was particularly interested in photographing locations where no visible traces of the actual wall remain but where one can still see subtle clues of its previous existence.

These clues include incongruities in the architecture that occurred as new structures were built on newly opened land parcels, changes in streetlights, or newer vegetation. Often the embroidered sections of the image run along the horizon line forming an unnatural separation that blocks the viewer.

This aspect of the sewing emphasizes the unnatural boundaries created by the wall itself. The sewing, which is soft and domestic provides a literal contrast to the concrete of the wall and a metaphorical contrast to its symbolism. As the scale of the stitches remains the same, the overall size of the image determines the amount of detail captured in the embroidery with the larger pieces in the series having over 30,000 individual stitches.

Another theme that runs through my work is an interest in the porous nature of memory and the ways it can be disrupted and replaced by images as well the means by which photography transforms history into nostalgic objects that obscure objective understandings of the past."

Diane Meyer received a BFA in Photography from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1999 and an MFA in Visual Arts from The University of California, San Diego in 2002.
She has been living in Los Angeles since 2005.

Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester; the 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica; AIR Gallery, NYC, The Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City; SPARC, South Pasadena, the Granary Contemporary Art Center, Ephraim, Utah; Klompching Gallery, NYC; a two person show at Pictura Gallery in Bloomington and numerous group shows in the United States and abroad including those at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester; Robert Mann Gallery, NYC; Regina Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Klompching Gallery, NYC; The Brattleboro Museum of Art, VT; Burrad Arts Foundation, Vancouver; Kunstagentur Dresden, Germany; Große Rathaus, Landshut, Germany; the Diffusion International Photography Festival, Cardiff, Wales; Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica; Fototropia, Guatemala City; Schneider Gallery, Chicago; Field Projects, NYC; China House, Penang, Malaysia; Galerie Huit, Arles, France; Project 42, Alkmaar, The Netherlands; Große Rathaus Galerie, Landshut; The Clarinda Carnegie Museum, IA; The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, Susan Laney Contemporary, Savannah; Marshall Contemporary, Venice; and others. 

Her work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum, the Clarinda Carnegie Museum, the Hood Museum, the Museum of  Contemporary Photography, Chicago and the University of Maryland.

She is represented by Klompching Gallery in New York.

.www.dianemeyer.net
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STRASSE II by Diane Meyer
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BRANDENBURG GATE by Diane Meyer
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CHECKPOINT CHARLIE by Diane Meyer
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HEIDELBERGER STRASSE by Diane Meyer
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REICHSTAG by Diane Meyer
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RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH by Douglas Hill
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Douglas Hill says, "My intention with the ongoing series, City of Sets, is to explore the actual appearance of Los Angeles, which has so often been portrayed on film and TV as places other than itself.  Of particular interest to me is the inevitable collision between the collective perception of the city by those who have never set foot in it and those who call it home.  The history of Los Angeles and that of the film industry are inextricably intertwined.  From the moment in the early 20th century that the first filmmakers stepped off the train they had taken to escape the uncooperative weather on the east coast, Los Angeles became the undisputed center of what was fast becoming a real industry.  Almost immediately directors began heading into the growing city's streets, casts and crews in tow, to shoot scenes for their mostly two-reel movies.  The streets were ideal for this purpose since nothing had to be built in advance and everything had the advantage of looking real... because it was!  If an intersection was comprised of buildings that even vaguely resembled New York, then for all intents and purposes that became New York to moviegoers.  But the thing is, Los Angeles has never looked like any of those places.  It has really only ever looked like itself.  Attempts have been made all over Los Angeles to emulate the appearance of other places, often to such an outlandish degree that they have come to epitomize Los Angeles."

Douglas Hill was born to Canadian parents in London, England in 1950. At the age of five he moved to New York where he lived until coming to Los Angeles in 1968 where he still resides. He attained U.S. citizenship in 1990. 

Hill began making photographs in 1969.  His work has been shown at The Gilb Museum, Arcadia, CA; Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS; PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; Berlin Blue Gallery, Berlin, Germany; G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica; The International Center for Photography, New York; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Friends of Photography, Carmel; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich; Prairie State College, Chicago; The Photography Place, Philadelphia, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica; The Huntington, San Marino and publications: This Side of Paradise: Body & Landscape in Los Angeles Photography; Looking at Los Angeles; American Photo; Camera; 24 Hours in the Life of Los Angeles; The New Color. 

His work is included in the collections of the Huntington, the Library of Congress, Center for Creative Photography, Center for Motion Picture Studies, Amon Carter Museum and participated in The Los Angeles Documentary Project commemorating the bicentennial of Los Angeles, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.  Hill has taught photography at UCLA Extension since 1995 and has offered workshops and master classes since 2010. 

He lives with Elayne Sawaya, his wife of 41 years and their poodle, Godfrey, in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.

CV -
Solo shows-
“The Main Drag: Photographs from the San Gabriel Valley”
The Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage – January 2020
Arcadia, CA

“Every Bridge (Over the Los Angeles River)”
Craig Krull Gallery – March/April 2007
Santa Monica, CA

“Studio Backlots”
Craig Krull Gallery – April/May 1999
Santa Monica, CA

Group shows-
"TPS30" – January 2022
Texas Photographic Society – Abilene, TX

"Color: Photography Now" – December 2021
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Developed Work” – November 2021
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

"Square Off 3" - November 2021
Helms Bakery Washington Corridor Gallery

"Members' Annual Exhibition" - August 2021
Los Angeles Center of Photography - Los Angeles, CA

"Field Work: Landscape & Architecture - June 2021
Black Box Gallery - Portland, OR

"Color Photography: 2020" - December 2020
Black Box Gallery - Portland, OR

"The Print Swap Group Show" – November 2020
Blank Wall Gallery – Athens, Greece (postponed)

“Suburban Architecture” – September 2020
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Walkabout” – May 2020
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Viewpoint: Landscape & Architecture” – January 2020
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Twelfth Annual ten x ten Small Works Exhibition” – December 2019
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Developed Work” – November 2019
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Top 40” – June 2019
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art – Los Angeles, CA

“Color Burst: A Picture Show” – May 2019
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Holiday Exhibition” – December 2018
Root Brooklyn – New York, NY

“2018 Hot New Pics” – October 2018
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Punctum” – October 2018
PH21 Gallery – Budapest, Hungary

“Open Call 2018” – September 2018
PhotoPlace Gallery – Middlebury, VT

“Photo Shoot: 2018” – September 2018
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Top 40” – June 2018
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art – Los Angeles, CA

“The Print Swap” – May 2018
BERLIN BLUE art – Berlin, Germany

“2018 Juried Exhibition” – January 2018
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Tenth Annual ten x ten Small Works Exhibition” – November 2017
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Boundaries” – November 2017
L.A. Photo Curator – Los Angeles, CA

“Photo Shoot: 2017” – October 2017
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Focus: Narrative Photography” – July 2017
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“LAB: found and lost” – June 2017
Void and (Float.) – Athens, Greece

“LAND: Interaction” – February 2015
Keystone Gallery – Los Angeles, CA

“The Built Environment” – November-December 2014
PhotoPlace Gallery – Middlebury, VT

“International Juried Exhibition” – October 2014
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art – Los Angeles, CA

“Off the Clock Juried Exhibition” – March 2014
American Photographic Artists – Los Angeles, CA

“Off the Clock Juried Exhibition” – March 2013
American Photographic Artists – Los Angeles, CA

Selected publication-
“This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs”
The Huntington

Collections-
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA

Huntington Library
San Marino, CA

Bruce & Nancy Berman
Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Center for Creative Photography
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Center for Motion Picture Study
Acad. of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA

Cedars-Sinai Hospital
Los Angeles, CA

Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR

WORK FOR SALE-

Bullock's Wilshire, Wilshire Blvd, Koreatown - 22"H x 17" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Bullock's Wilshire, Westmoreland Ave, Koreatown - 22"H x 17" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Three Topiary, Transportation Center, Alameda St, Chinatown - 17"H x 22" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Parking Structure, MTA HQ, Spring St, Chinatown - 17"H x 22" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Chain Restaurant, St Vincent de Paul Church, West Adams, University Park - 22"H x 17" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Russian Orthodox Church, Western Ave, Hollywood - 22"H x 17" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front


e: douglas@douglashillphotography.com
w: www.douglashillphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/odouglas50
 
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BULLOCKS WESTMORELAND by Douglas Hill
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BULLOCKS WILSHIRE by Douglas Hill
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CHAIN RESTAURANT by Douglas Hill
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Douglas Hill says, "My intention with the ongoing series, City of Sets, is to explore the actual appearance of Los Angeles, which has so often been portrayed on film and TV as places other than itself.  Of particular interest to me is the inevitable collision between the collective perception of the city by those who have never set foot in it and those who call it home.  The history of Los Angeles and that of the film industry are inextricably intertwined.  From the moment in the early 20th century that the first filmmakers stepped off the train they had taken to escape the uncooperative weather on the east coast, Los Angeles became the undisputed center of what was fast becoming a real industry.  Almost immediately directors began heading into the growing city's streets, casts and crews in tow, to shoot scenes for their mostly two-reel movies.  The streets were ideal for this purpose since nothing had to be built in advance and everything had the advantage of looking real... because it was!  If an intersection was comprised of buildings that even vaguely resembled New York, then for all intents and purposes that became New York to moviegoers.  But the thing is, Los Angeles has never looked like any of those places.  It has really only ever looked like itself.  Attempts have been made all over Los Angeles to emulate the appearance of other places, often to such an outlandish degree that they have come to epitomize Los Angeles."

Douglas Hill was born to Canadian parents in London, England in 1950. At the age of five he moved to New York where he lived until coming to Los Angeles in 1968 where he still resides. He attained U.S. citizenship in 1990. 

Hill began making photographs in 1969.  His work has been shown at The Gilb Museum, Arcadia, CA; Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS; PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; Berlin Blue Gallery, Berlin, Germany; G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica; The International Center for Photography, New York; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Friends of Photography, Carmel; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich; Prairie State College, Chicago; The Photography Place, Philadelphia, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica; The Huntington, San Marino and publications: This Side of Paradise: Body & Landscape in Los Angeles Photography; Looking at Los Angeles; American Photo; Camera; 24 Hours in the Life of Los Angeles; The New Color. 

His work is included in the collections of the Huntington, the Library of Congress, Center for Creative Photography, Center for Motion Picture Studies, Amon Carter Museum and participated in The Los Angeles Documentary Project commemorating the bicentennial of Los Angeles, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.  Hill has taught photography at UCLA Extension since 1995 and has offered workshops and master classes since 2010. 

He lives with Elayne Sawaya, his wife of 41 years and their poodle, Godfrey, in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.

CV -
Solo shows-
“The Main Drag: Photographs from the San Gabriel Valley”
The Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage – January 2020
Arcadia, CA

“Every Bridge (Over the Los Angeles River)”
Craig Krull Gallery – March/April 2007
Santa Monica, CA

“Studio Backlots”
Craig Krull Gallery – April/May 1999
Santa Monica, CA

Group shows-
"TPS30" – January 2022
Texas Photographic Society – Abilene, TX

"Color: Photography Now" – December 2021
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Developed Work” – November 2021
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

"Square Off 3" - November 2021
Helms Bakery Washington Corridor Gallery

"Members' Annual Exhibition" - August 2021
Los Angeles Center of Photography - Los Angeles, CA

"Field Work: Landscape & Architecture - June 2021
Black Box Gallery - Portland, OR

"Color Photography: 2020" - December 2020
Black Box Gallery - Portland, OR

"The Print Swap Group Show" – November 2020
Blank Wall Gallery – Athens, Greece (postponed)

“Suburban Architecture” – September 2020
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Walkabout” – May 2020
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Viewpoint: Landscape & Architecture” – January 2020
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Twelfth Annual ten x ten Small Works Exhibition” – December 2019
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Developed Work” – November 2019
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Top 40” – June 2019
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art – Los Angeles, CA

“Color Burst: A Picture Show” – May 2019
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Holiday Exhibition” – December 2018
Root Brooklyn – New York, NY

“2018 Hot New Pics” – October 2018
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Punctum” – October 2018
PH21 Gallery – Budapest, Hungary

“Open Call 2018” – September 2018
PhotoPlace Gallery – Middlebury, VT

“Photo Shoot: 2018” – September 2018
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Top 40” – June 2018
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art – Los Angeles, CA

“The Print Swap” – May 2018
BERLIN BLUE art – Berlin, Germany

“2018 Juried Exhibition” – January 2018
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Tenth Annual ten x ten Small Works Exhibition” – November 2017
Midwest Center for Photography – Wichita, KS

“Boundaries” – November 2017
L.A. Photo Curator – Los Angeles, CA

“Photo Shoot: 2017” – October 2017
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“Focus: Narrative Photography” – July 2017
Black Box Gallery – Portland, OR

“LAB: found and lost” – June 2017
Void and (Float.) – Athens, Greece

“LAND: Interaction” – February 2015
Keystone Gallery – Los Angeles, CA

“The Built Environment” – November-December 2014
PhotoPlace Gallery – Middlebury, VT

“International Juried Exhibition” – October 2014
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art – Los Angeles, CA

“Off the Clock Juried Exhibition” – March 2014
American Photographic Artists – Los Angeles, CA

“Off the Clock Juried Exhibition” – March 2013
American Photographic Artists – Los Angeles, CA

Selected publication-
“This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs”
The Huntington

Collections-
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA

Huntington Library
San Marino, CA

Bruce & Nancy Berman
Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Center for Creative Photography
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Center for Motion Picture Study
Acad. of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA

Cedars-Sinai Hospital
Los Angeles, CA

Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR

WORK FOR SALE-

Bullock's Wilshire, Wilshire Blvd, Koreatown - 22"H x 17" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Bullock's Wilshire, Westmoreland Ave, Koreatown - 22"H x 17" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Three Topiary, Transportation Center, Alameda St, Chinatown - 17"H x 22" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Parking Structure, MTA HQ, Spring St, Chinatown - 17"H x 22" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Chain Restaurant, St Vincent de Paul Church, West Adams, University Park - 22"H x 17" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front

Russian Orthodox Church, Western Ave, Hollywood - 22"H x 17" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 20
Signed on front


e: douglas@douglashillphotography.com
w: www.douglashillphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/odouglas50
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #1
PARKING STRUCTURE by Douglas Hill
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