BLACK & WHITE GROUP SHOW #1

You are invited to a captivating black and white photo show! Join us for an evening of timeless elegance as we celebrate the beauty of monochrome imagery. Discover the depth and emotion captured in each frame. Mark your calendar for Thursday, May 30.

Dress in your chicest black and white attire and immerse yourself in the art of contrast.

RSVP to secure your spot! Can‘t wait to see you.

Limited Parking. Ride Share encouraged.

MICHAEL ANSELL | SILHOUETTES AND STILL LIFE'S

I am influenced by the Pictorialism approach to photography. I'm interested in composition, tonality and shapes. Add some social commentary and you have the basis of this show.
I try to reduce as much detail as possible. It's the impression that matters. The fact that the images have a soft and out of focus look adds to the pictorialism style.

Self Portrait of Michael Ansell

JULIA DEAN | THE WORLD IN BLACK &WHITE

Julia began her career as an apprentice to pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York.She has traveled to more than 45 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. Her extensive teaching experience includes 40 years at various colleges, universities and educational institutions including the University of Nebraska, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Santa Monica College, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops, Oxford University, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and the Leica Akademie.

Photo of Julia Dean by Per Bernal/Faces of Leica

GREG HATTON | THINGS YOU SEE

The work shown is a small sampling of the things we see along the way. Moments that without evidence might be overlooked or if seen for a second, might not be remembered.

It's about the small details of life and in the world around us.

I find a lot of magic in these places and in those moments.

Raw humanity is exposed. Wonder can be examined.

And there's even an opportunity to revisit what sent us down the road to begin with.

As an example, the image of the "Sister Cities" is an image that I first captured in 2002 on an old phone. The fingerpost hinted to me that the world wasn't so far away. A hint I followed and all these years later and with all the places traveled; the first time seeing that post pushes me to this day.

Earlier this year I came back to the monument, reframed it exactly and captured it. Simply to tell the story.

Photo of Greg Hatton by Frank Jackson/fotographz

DANIEL SACKHEIM | UNSEEN

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

As a child, the approach of bedtime filled me with dread. I embodied the quintessential image of a child, tightly clutching his trusty flashlight, haunted by the fear that elusive specters might be lurking beneath my bed, or concealed within the pitch-black darkness of the closet. Those fears, now distant memories, have been supplanted by an artistic fixation bordering on obsession. This pursuit has guided me into a maze of desolate city streets, bathed in the flickering glow of streetlights that seem to scarcely pierce the ominous depths of these urban wildernesses.

This body of work explores life in the shadows of an urban jungle. My inquisitiveness is rooted in a need to discover the secrets that lie hidden deep within even the most forbidding corners of the city. To excavate the past, to stare into the faces of ghosts long forgotten.

Inspired by the visual aesthetic of Film Noir, this work explores isolated fragments of subjects once there but now gone, as a means of shining a light on what is hidden, if only for an instant.

Photo of Daniel Sackheim by Per Bernal/Faces of Leica

WINTERSTONE | BALLET of LIFE

In the twilight of my mother's life, I found solace in capturing the dance of light and darkness through my lens. Each image tells a story of delicate beauty and loving emotion, a ballet of light that whispers of life's fleeting moments. Through this art, I celebrate the resilience of the human spirit and the timeless grace found in the meeting of light and shadow.