Letter from ED, Board of Directors & Advisors

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tracy Albert Retired Former Head of Investment Banking for Deloitte Touché, Philanthropist & Photographer Sherrie Berger (Secretary) Photo Consultant and Co-founder of Scarletworks

William Broder (Treasurer) CPA PFS, Business and Wealth Manager and Photographer Ken Deemer (President) Private Investor, Philanthropist and Social Entrepreneur Michelle Elkins Former Technology Executive and Private Investor

Eric Joseph Senior V.P. of Business and Product Development for Freestyle Photographic Supplies and Photographer Lori Ordover Fine Art Photographer Jennifer Pritchard Photographic Artist and Storyteller Aline Smithson Fine Art Photographer and Founder/Editor, Lenscratch

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Ali LeRoi Ann Elliott Cutting Art Streiber Bernd Reinhardt Chris Davies George Baker Gil Garcetti Greg Gorman Ibarionex Perello Marissa Roth Mark Edward Harris Matthew Rolston Mitch Dobrowner Peter Fetterman Sam Abell Victoria Burns

Mission Statement

LACP enables its communities to capture, interpret and reimagine individual and cultural conflicts and the creative combustion that shape Los Angeles and influence the world.

Letter from the Executive Director

Dear Friends, Storytellers can change the world, and they need a safe space to find their voice and capture their story. The Los Angeles Center of Photography is proud to be the crucible that forges creative vision, insight, and experimentation into a vibrant photographic community that expresses the cultural and artistic crosscurrents that are the essence of LA.

During this tumultuous year, our community came together to create and connect, both online and across Los Angeles. LACP and its members have been responding to global and local shifts, through exhibitions, public programs, and community initiatives.

I am proud to share we launched an outreach program in partnership with The Children’s Institute, offering free photography workshops for high school and middle school students in Watts. The workshops focus on developing visual literacy skills and non-verbal forms of creative expression, placing cameras at the hands of teens and pre-teens who learn powerful ways to articulate their perspective and share their lived experience with the world. I look forward to expanding the program with existing and new partners across Los Angeles in 2023.

In May, LACP organized a virtual fundraising event to support Razom, a non-profit organization that provides humanitarian aid to civilians and medical aid to soldiers in Ukraine. Photographer Natalie Keyssar shared her experience covering the war since its early days, presenting painful, intimate stories of the lives and faces behind the conflict.

With our local friends, members, and supporters, we created a network of partnering organizations, offering in-person workshops, classes, and public programs across Los Angeles. Our print lab is now in full motion at Contact Photo Lab at the Brewery, and regular classes and experiences are offered at 14 Studios, Q studios and Thymele Arts. We hosted the pop-up exhibition Fresh As___: Photographic Meditations from the Black Vanguard (Regarding A New Esthetic), curated by Ali LeRoi and Shawn Theodore at Sovern and partnered with Inner-City Arts around their annual Summer on 7th Party, where we featured the members exhibition Undercurrents. And of course, our online offerings are in full swing, with countless opportunities to be inspired, learn and engage.

Lastly, we were thrilled to have our efforts across communities recognized by the Lucie Award, whose members nominated LACP for the Photography Program of the Year Award.

Looking into the new year, soon we will get to share with a refreshed look, a new website, and exciting ventures in line with our mission and our commitment to inspire communities through visual storytelling.

We remain grateful for your support, and for the opportunity to be a part of your photographic journey.

Sincerely, Rotem Rozental, Ph.D.