Dotan Saguy was born in a small kibbutz five miles south of Israel’s Lebanese border. Dotan grew-up in a diverse working class Parisian suburb, lived in Lower Manhattan during 9/11 and moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2015 Dotan decided to focus on his lifelong passion for photography after a successful career as a high-tech entrepreneur. Since then […]
THE 2020 LENSCRATCH VOTE EXHIBITION
I am voting for women’s rights, for the best in healthcare, equal pay and housing, women’s safety and protection in the courts from abusers, and for a truer, more accurate representation of age, size, color, ability, and gender in media, advertising and film. – Lauren Hare I am voting to make a difference in this […]
Focus on Self-Portraiture: Jennifer McClure
This week we are looking into the mirror and considering who we see. Photographer and educator Jennifer McClure has been examining self for much of her photographic legacy and she is our editor this week, sharing five artists who are working in the genre of Self-Portraiture. Today we begin with Jennifer’s project, Still the Body, […]
Spirit: Focus on Indigenous Art, Artists, and Issues: Donna Garcia
“‘I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by the thousands, but the Indian removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.” Some months ago, I heard Donna Garcia discuss her project, Indian Land for Sale, as part of the Project 2020 Exhibition at the Los Angeles Center […]
Diana Nicholette Jeon: Nights As Inexorable As The Sea and NO KA HOME O KA HALE KAHIKO
Diane Nicholette Jeon has the unique ability to transform her visions, perceptions, and emotions into small stories that remain slightly out of reach. There are no beginnings or endings to these stories, but clues to salient memories and emotional experiences. Many of her projects pair images, and in the case of Nights As Inexorable As The […]
The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture
The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture is a $20,000 prize awarded annually to a photographer whose work demonstrates a compelling new vision in photographic portraiture. In addition to the winner, the jury selects three finalists each year who are invited to participate in an exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography. […]