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PAC LA PRESENTS: YEAR OF THE WOMAN
In honor of the powerful women who helped to shape PAC LA's first decade, we are launching Year of the Woman, a series of flagship public educational events celebrating notable women in fine art photography. The organization is building an entire year of programming around this central theme and will offer free, in-person events, held quarterly at venues across the city in 2025 and early 2026.
This groundbreaking programming initiative is made possible through the generous sponsorship of Eastman Museum Los Angeles.
SAVE THE DATE!
August 9 2025 | The Gallerists: An In-Person Panel Discussion | FREE | Join the waiting list!
Public Event Highlight: Photo Forward
In 2023, PAC LA organized and hosted Photo Forward, a brand new, 100% free Photography Fair at Bergamont Station in Santa Monica. Over the course of a weekend, thousands of visitors experienced the excitement of discovering new work, meeting notable gallerists, and learning from PAC LA presenters on topics ranging from the creation of photo books to starting a photo collection.
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Member Walkthrough: Carrie Mae Weems and Tracy Chandler - A unique afternoon at two galleries
Meet Italian scholar and exhibition creator, Giulia Zorzi to explore the show, Carrie Mae Weems: Slow Fade to Black at La Sena Gallery. Slow Fade to Black is a series of 26 photographs of iconic black female singers and performers from the mid-20th century. Caught in the act of performing memorable career moments, they are intentionally shown out of focus. In doing so, the resulting photographs focus on the vanishing memory of them.
Our group will then join Photographer Tracy Chandler for an introduction to her show, A Poor Sort of Memory. To create this series, the artist went back to her hometown in the California desert – and not without ambivalence. “As I revisited old hideouts in concrete washes and private bunks in rock formations, I was reminded of a past laden with trauma and my desperation to find both a sense of belonging and an independent self,” she says.
Wednesday, June 25 | 1 PM PST
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Member Walkthrough: Yang Fudong at Marian Goodman Gallery
Marian Goodman Gallery will welcome PAC LA members to the much-anticipated exhibition by Yang Fudong, Sparrow and the Sea.
The exhibition opens with a series of photographic film stills that provide us with glimpses of what is to come. In addition to the photographs, Yang presents two new series of mixed media and photographic works, Sparrow and Island, that enrich the overarching investigations of light, time, and memory present in Sparrow on the Sea.
Saturday, June 28 | Noon PST
Member Event Highlight: The Lapis Press
In March 2024, PAC LA members were invited to The Lapis Press for a special curatorial walkthrough of the studio–visiting works from newly released editions by Stephen Shore and Daido Moriyama, as well as projects on view by Ed Ruscha, Kehinde Wiley, Matthew Brandt, Analia Saban and others.
PAC LA Online
Since early 2020, PAC LA has presented conversations with artists, curators, collectors and experts from all corners of the photography and lens-based art world. Visit our YouTube Channel to enjoy our full archive.
Production of new PAC LA online talks and our free public archive is made possible by the generous financial support of the Herb Ritts Foundation.
Recent Conversations
PAC LA Online Hightlight: A Conversation with John Simmons
Our June 2023 artist talk and discussion with acclaimed photographer and cinematographer John Simmons. The artist presented works from his archive of early photographs and from his current practice, and shared his background and stories of his multi-disciplinary career as a documentarian of social and visual culture, as well as his passion for working within the mediums of photography and film.
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