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Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles Member-Access Event Free Admission to Sponsors, $10 for Members Preview Walkthrough and Conversation with Getty Curator of Photographs, Virginia Heckert Virginia Heckert is the Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. For the conversation, Virginia will discuss the continually evolving medium of photography. She plans to chat with the exhibitors about how they strive and hope to contribute to the medium. She will also discuss how Photo Forward LA provides a collaborative learning opportunity in concert with this evolution.

Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles Member-Access Event Free Admission to Sponsors, $10 for Members Preview Walkthrough with Curator Regina Mamou Regina Mamou is a visual artist and lecturer with a specialization in photography and contemporary art. She is currently the first artist-in-residence at The Wende Museum of the Cold War. Regina’s work centers on the desire to understand the diversity of ideological systems and the struggle to create community. Join us for a glimpse inside our photography community through the eyes of this brilliant scholar. Regina Mamou holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and is the recipient of a Fulbright to Jordan.

Public Guided Tour Event Admission $25 Walkthrough & Conversation Hosted by CCP Curator of Photographs, Rebecca Senf & Collector Michael Hawley How do I start my collection? What are our roles as guardians of photography? Where is the photo world headed for the institution and the individual? Important starting-point questions when building a collection. Long-time friends Becky Senf and Michael Hawley, a curator and a collector, bring you inside the conversation they’ve been having for years. Dr. Rebecca Senf is Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Her B.A. in Art History is from the University of Arizona; her M.A. and Ph.D. were awarded by Boston University. Dr. Senf is an Ansel Adams scholar, whose most recent book on Ansel Adams’s early years, called Making a Photographer, was co-published by the CCP and Yale University Press. Michael Hawley is a writer and photography collector. He is a founding board member of PAC LA and chair of the Getty Museum Photographs Council. His broad and diverse collection has been growing since the early 1990s. RSVP here: https://www.photoforwardla.com/programming

Bergamot Station Arts Center Danziger Gallery, Suite B1 2525 Michigan Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90404 Saturday, February 18 11am - 7pm Sunday, February 19 11am - 5pm Free admission. Parking Onsite parking is FREE but may become limited over the weekend, especially in the evening. Consider using ride share or the Expo Line and exit at 26th St/Bergamot.

Free Public Event Bill Owens Book Signing at Scott Nichols Gallery Scott Nichols Gallery is proud to be hosting photographer Bill Owens for a book signing at their booth on Saturday, February 18, from 2-4pm. Owens’ book, The Legacy of Suburbia: Photographs 1964-2022 is a limited edition release of 100, and it features a special limited print 4th of July Parade. Other books by Bill Owens and his latest limited edition portfolio will also be available for purchase.

Bergamot Station Arts Center Danziger Gallery, Suite B1 2525 Michigan Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90404 Saturday, February 18 11am - 7pm Sunday, February 19 11am - 5pm Free admission. Parking Onsite parking is FREE but may become limited over the weekend, especially in the evening. Consider using ride share or the Expo Line and exit at 26th St/Bergamot.