Andi Campognone has over 30 years of arts experience in the southern California region. She is the Executive Director of AC Projects, a non-profit consulting organization focused on promoting arts and culture. Campognone is the Arts Manager/Senior Curator for the City of Lancaster’s museums and leads the public art initiatives for the City of Lancaster. Ms. Campognone is on the Board of the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation and on the Board of the Holualoa Foundation for Arts & Culture.

Dennis Keeley has worked as an artist, photographer, educator, and writer for more than 40 years. His works have been exhibited in numerous one person and group shows and he is published internationally in studies concerning urban circumstance and condition.

His portraits of musicians were utilized in hundreds of album and cd covers. He began his career as one of an established group of photographers in the field of music portraiture. Currently, Mr Keeley is working with ALTASEA.

Los Angeles native Elisabeth Caren is an editorial, advertising and fine art photographer who incorporates her lifelong passion for the dramatic arts into her visual art practice, creating theatrical portraits as well as cinematic narratives in addition to commissions. Her work can be seen at www.ecarenphoto.com Caren's work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, London, Miami, New York, and Toronto. Elisabeth is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild and a board member of APALA.

Eron Rauch is an artist, writer, and curator focusing on contemporary subculture, online experiences, and virtual/video game photography. He is a writer at Riot Games and runs the platform Video Games for the Arts. He received his MFA in Photography and Media at CalArts, where he teaches a class on photography for designers.

Eve Schillo curates exhibitions that span photographic history and appear in LACMA galleries dedicated to American, Latin American, Modern, Contemporary, and Japanese Art, as well as those devoted to photography. Recent projects include two exhibitions celebrating California photography, You Are Here (2023) and Golden Hour (2021 - 2022) Areas of interest include experimental approaches, photo photo sculpture, photo and the environment, time-based media, Latinx makers, and of course, California and The West.

Jules Wood work closely with celebrities such as Helena Christensen, Caitriona Balfe and Sean Lennon. She has also worked with the legendary Peter Beard and Mick Rock and now styles for legendary fashion photographer Ellen Von Unwerth. She also serves as Fashion Editor of Ellen Von Unwerth's VON Magazine. In 2016, Jules also became Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the critically acclaimed fashion and art magazine, Reserved, highlighting the talents of women, artists and activists in all walks of life.

Katie Shapiro received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and a BFA in Photography from CalArts. Her practice is centered on the ineffable, and visualizing things that cannot be seen. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Kopeikin Gallery, Klompching Gallery, The Armory Center, Pasadena, Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica, Joan, Los Angeles and Aperture Gallery, New York. Her work has received coverage in Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine.

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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 at events including Photo LA, Photo SF, Paris Photo, Paris Photo LA and 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.

Rebecca Morse is Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Recent projects include 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).

Richard S. Chow is co-producer and curator, for Open Show Los Angeles who provides a platform and events for visual artists to share & dialog for 12+ years. Since 2021, he serves as portfolio reviewer for artist grants($10-60k) for Sacramento's California Art Council. He has juried/curated exhibits on behalf of ArtShareLA, MoPLA, and Your Daily Photograph by Duncan Miller Gallery. In 2023, he co-curated a themed exhibit at the Makery Gallery, which is also his studio as one of the resident artists.

Shelley De Soto is a founding partner of De Soto Gallery, specializing in contemporary photography and new approaches to the medium. The gallery hosts special exhibitions periodically, and Shelley works in close collaboration with artists producing projects. Previously, she worked as the Director of Stephen Cohen Gallery. She studied Art History at UC Berkeley and Photography at Art Center College of Design.

Andi Campognone has over 30 years of arts experience in the southern California region. She is the Executive Director of AC Projects, a non-profit consulting organization focused on promoting arts and culture. Campognone is the Arts Manager/Senior Curator for the City of Lancaster’s museums and leads the public art initiatives for the City of Lancaster. Ms. Campognone is on the Board of the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation and on the Board of the Holualoa Foundation for Arts & Culture.

Bonny Taylor Ndiaye, based in Los Angeles with over two decades of experience, has undoubtedly become a trusted advisor in the photographic art world. Her expertise spans many areas, including advising artists on their careers, helping them create compelling portfolios, fine art printing, editing, archiving, and curating exhibitions. Her team at the Print Studio produces high-quality fine art prints that grace galleries and museums worldwide. @bonny_artconsulting

Katie Shapiro received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and a BFA in Photography from CalArts. Her practice is centered on the ineffable, and visualizing things that cannot be seen. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Kopeikin Gallery, Klompching Gallery, The Armory Center, Pasadena, Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica, Joan, Los Angeles and Aperture Gallery, New York. Her work has received coverage in Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine.

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Leah Ollman has been writing criticism and features about art for more than 30 years. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Paris Review Daily, Photograph, and more. She has written essays for books on William Kentridge, Alison Rossiter, Chris McCaw, Julie Blackmon, Michael Light, Michal Chelbin, John Brill, and others, and contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues.

Her book, Ensnaring the Moment: On the Intersection of Poetry and Photography, will by published by Saint Lucy Books in 2025.

Lisa Ohlweiler is a Los Angeles-based artist whose photographic works explore image context and formal analogies as a means to balance her love for conceptualism and that California quality of light. Lisa's work is included in the museum collection at LACMA and has been exhibited at Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles; Cohen Gallery, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles; Margo Leavin Gallery, Bellfast Exposed, Bellfast. Lisa currently teaches photography at Otis College of Art & Design and Pasadena City College.

Assignments have taken Mark Edward Harris to more than 100 countries on all seven continents. His editorial work has appeared in numerous publications such as Vanity Fair, LIFE, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Vogue, Wallpaper and Nat Geo Traveler. Among his numerous accolades are CLIO, ACE, Impact DOCS Award of Excellence, Aurora Gold, New York Book Show Book of the Year and IPA awards. Harris has published 10 books including North Korea, The Way of the Japanese Bath and The People of the Forest.

Melanie Pullen is a self-taught fine-art photographer raised in a family of photojournalists, publishers and artists. Her photography is heavily influenced by early forensic photography, war journalism, cinema and fashion.

Pullen’s photography is in notable private collections and the permanent collections of the: The Getty Museum; The Jumex Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fredrick R. Weisman Museum, Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center Museum and MOAH Museum.

Merry Karnowsky is a Los Angeles art dealer and gallerist. Karnowsky was born in Eastern Washington State and educated at Pitzer College - Claremont, California. In 1997, she opened The Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles, California, and was influential in the underground "Lowbrow (art movement)," pop surrealism, and Street Art scene, with exhibitions by Shepard Fairey, Camille Rose Garcia, Mercedes Helnwein and Todd Schorr.

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 at events including Photo LA, Photo SF, Paris Photo, Paris Photo LA and 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.

Ryan Linkof joined the Lucas Museum in July 2018 as the museum’s first curator. Previously, he served as part of the founding curatorial team of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and as a curator in the Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He has organized numerous exhibitions, including Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium (LACMA and the Getty Museum), and Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa – Art and Film (LACMA). He is the author of Public Images.

Yiwei Lu wears multiple hats as a curator, the founder of Yiwei Gallery, and a judge for the International Photography Awards. Currently spearheading communication efforts at Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica, she also has contributes to two professional photography magazines. Born and raised from China, Yiwei's journey led her to earn a USC Master's degree in Visual Anthropology. In 2019, she launched Yiwei Gallery in Los Angeles, a space dedicated to empowering underrepresented artists.

Andi Elloway is a portrait, fashion, and lifestyle photographer based in Los Angeles. Her work often tells a story via first person narrative and has been compared to gonzo journalism. Elloway takes inspiration from skate culture, travel, music, and life experiences. Her clients include Puma, Flaunt Magazine, Nordstrom, Nike, Wonderland, Good American, and Purple Magazine.

Bonny Taylor Ndiaye, based in Los Angeles with over two decades of experience, has undoubtedly become a trusted advisor in the photographic art world. Her expertise spans many areas, including advising artists on their careers, helping them create compelling portfolios, fine art printing, editing, archiving, and curating exhibitions. Her team at the Print Studio produces high-quality fine art prints that grace galleries and museums worldwide. @bonny_artconsulting

Dennis Keeley has worked as an artist, photographer, educator, and writer for more than 40 years. His works have been exhibited in numerous one person and group shows and he is published internationally in studies concerning urban circumstance and condition.

His portraits of musicians were utilized in hundreds of album and cd covers. He began his career as one of an established group of photographers in the field of music portraiture. Currently, Mr Keeley is working with ALTASEA.

Douglas McCulloh is Senior Curator at the California Museum of Photography and a practicing artist. He has curated 26 exhibitions which have appeared in museums across the U.S., Europe, South Korea, and China. His own work has shown nationally and internationally in more than 250 exhibitions. McCulloh is an honors graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds an M.F.A. in photography and digital media.

>> NEW! "Every Day We Have to Invent the Reality of This World : AI Post Photography" exhibition curated by Douglas McCulloh now open at the California Museum of Photography through March 3, 2024 - ucrarts.ucr.edu/exhibitions/ai-post-photography <<

Lisa Ohlweiler is a Los Angeles-based artist whose photographic works explore image context and formal analogies as a means to balance her love for conceptualism and that California quality of light. Lisa's work is included in the museum collection at LACMA and has been exhibited at Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles; Cohen Gallery Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles; Margo Leavin Gallery, Bellfast Exposed, Bellfast. Lisa currently teaches photography at Otis College of Art and Design and Pasadena City College.

Assignments have taken Mark Edward Harris to more than 100 countries on all seven continents. His editorial work has appeared in numerous publications such as Vanity Fair, LIFE, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Vogue, Wallpaper and Nat Geo Traveler. Among his numerous accolades are CLIO, ACE, Impact DOCS Award of Excellence, Aurora Gold, New York Book Show Book of the Year and IPA awards. Harris has published 10 books including North Korea, The Way of the Japanese Bath and The People of the Forest.

Mark Hanauer has been photographing extraordinary people for magazines, foundations, museums, corporations, et al. since forever. www.markhanauer.com

Melanie Pullen is a self-taught fine-art photographer raised in a family of photojournalists, publishers and artists. Her photography is heavily influenced by early forensic photography, war journalism, cinema and fashion.

Pullen’s photography is in notable private collections and the permanent collections of the: The Getty Museum; The Jumex Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fredrick R. Weisman Museum, Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center Museum and MOAH Museum.

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 at events including Photo LA, Photo SF, Paris Photo, Paris Photo LA and 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.

Ryan Linkof joined the Lucas Museum in July 2018 as the museum’s first curator. Previously, he served as part of the founding curatorial team of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and as a curator in the Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He has organized numerous exhibitions, including Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium (LACMA and the Getty Museum), and Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa – Art and Film (LACMA). He is the author of Public Images.

Aline Smithson is a visual artist, editor, and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Best known for her conceptual portraiture and a practice that uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography. Smithson has exhibited widely and her work is held in numerous public collections and has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PDN (cover). Smithson is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Lenscratch a daily journal of photography.

>> NEW! “If Memory Serves : Photography, Recollections and Vision | Honoring Aline Smithson" exhibition opens at Los Angeles Center of Photography from Dec 16, 2023 - Feb 24, 2024 - lacphoto.org/exhibition/if-memory-serves-photography-recollections-and-vision <<

Douglas Hill is a fine art and architectural photographer. Of primary interest has been the built environment and it’s relationship to the improbable southern California landscape. His work has been exhibited widely at museums and galleries and can be found in the permanent collections of the Getty, the Huntington, the Smithsonian, LACMA, and the Amon Carter Museum among others. He has taught photography at UCLA Extension since 1994. Hill was a Photolucida Critical Mass 2023 finalist.

Jacek Laskus is a Cinematographer, Director and Photographer. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers as well as the Polish Society of Cinematographers. He is best know for feature-length films: Parting Glances, Square Dance, The Whole Sheban and Color Straight Up (Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy)

As a photographer he has had one person shows in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and at The Camerimage Festival, and co-authored a book of his photography Hollywood_PL

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Jules Wood work closely with celebrities such as Helena Christensen, Caitriona Balfe and Sean Lennon. She has also worked with the legendary Peter Beard and Mick Rock and now styles for legendary fashion photographer Ellen Von Unwerth. She also serves as Fashion Editor of Ellen Von Unwerth's VON Magazine. In 2016, Jules also became Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the critically acclaimed fashion and art magazine, Reserved, highlighting the talents of women, artists and activists in all walks of life.

Patricia Lanza is an independent curator and consultant for photography and fine art. She is a regular contributor writing about photography for the Eye of Photography online magazine (www.loeildelaphotographie.com).

She was the Director of Talent and Content for The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles from 2009 to 2017, producing twenty-two exhibitions. She began her career at the National Geographic Society in Washington DC where she was a contract photographer traveling to fifty-three countries. Her photographic exhibition on Vincent van Gogh’s artistic journey is currently touring and presented at the Kennedy Museum, Ohio and recently in Bremen, Germany at the F15 Gallery.

After studying Meso-American Culture at The Universidad de las Americas, Peter began working with Larry Gagosian from 1974- 1981. During his ten year he gave Bill Eggleston his first color exhibition in Los Angeles. Other exhibitions would included the work of Ellsworth Kelly, Eric Fischl, David Salle, Robert Longo, Chris Burden and many others. In 2002, Peter founded Hayworth Gallery championing young up-and-coming artists. He is now a private art dealer and photographer.

Richard S. Chow is co-producer and curator, for Open Show Los Angeles who provides a platform and events for visual artists to share & dialog for 12+ years. Since 2021, he serves as portfolio reviewer for artist grants($10-60k) for Sacramento's California Art Council. He has juried/curated exhibits on behalf of ArtShareLA, MoPLA, and Your Daily Photograph by Duncan Miller Gallery. In 2023, he co-curated a themed exhibit at the Makery Gallery, which is also his studio as one of the resident artists.

Robert Berman has been in business in Santa Monica, California since 1979. Founder and owner ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY and SANTA MONICA AUCTIONS was early on in exhibiting artists such as Keith Haring and Raymond Pettibon and has done historical and seminal exhibitions by such artists as William S. Burroughs and Man Ray. He has been instumental in the deaccession of complete collections as well as consulting in the creation of fine art estates.

Shane McCauley is an American photographer and filmmaker. He started taking pictures aged seven and honed his craft documenting the music scene in Philadelphia and chronicling Youth Culture and expanding this to a Global remit. He has published several books to date, notably 128 Beats Per Minute (Rizzoli) and Blow Your Head (Picturebox). Over his 30-year career Shane has shot for Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Rolling Stone, GQ, Urban Outfitters, Adidas and Sony Music.

Yiwei Lu wears multiple hats as a curator, the founder of Yiwei Gallery, and a judge for the International Photography Awards. Currently spearheading communication efforts at Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica, she also has contributes to two professional photography magazines. Born and raised from China, Yiwei's journey led her to earn a USC Master's degree in Visual Anthropology. In 2019, she launched Yiwei Gallery in Los Angeles, a space dedicated to empowering underrepresented artists.