MEMBER EVENT | A Roundtable Conversation with Kristin Bedford
Monday, May 24 at 3PM (PST)

Virtual Conversation

A roundtable conversation with photographer Kristin Bedford on the occasion of her newly published monograph Cruise Night. The roundtable will include a virtual presentation of the new body of work, alongside an open discussion on the making of the series and the social complexities within her practice and cultural representation.

Known for her quiet portraits of American cultural movements, Kristin Bedford’s new work, Cruise Night, is an intimate and unstaged exploration of Mexican American lowrider car culture in Los Angeles. From 2014 to 2019 she attended hundreds of lowrider cruise nights, car shows, quinceañeras, weddings and funerals. Bedford’s images offer a new visual narrative around the lowrider tradition and invite us to question prevalent societal stereotypes. Located at the intersection of aesthetics and social realism, her photographs explore the nuance of cars as mobile canvases and the legendary community that creates them. With the bold language of color photography and the female vantage point, Cruise Night is an original look at a prolific American movement set against the Los Angeles cityscape.

Kristin Bedford’s photographs have appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe and are held in numerous private and public collections worldwide, including the Library of Congress and the Archive of Documentary Arts at the Rubenstein Library.

Kristin Bedford’s photography explores race, visual stereotypes and communal self-expression. Through long-term engagement with communities, Bedford makes photographs that invite us to reconsider prevalent visual narratives around cultural and spiritual movements.

**This online event was held as a Zoom meeting and recorded for later viewing.
For your Member’s Link to the recording, or to become a member, visit membership@paclosangeles.com.