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For Photo LA 2019, De Soto Gallery brings together recent works by Connie Samaras, Alma Haser, and Jonas N.T. Becker. Each of the artists contemplates nature, imagining the implications of possible futures through the lens of a metaphorical present.

Connie Samaras’ "The Past Is Another Planet" (2016) came in response to an invitation by the Huntington Library to commemorate the great science fiction writer, Octavia E. Butler, one of very few black authors working in the genre whose social insights and political prescience are eerily relevant today. It blends views of the library’s …