Join us our next artist lecture with Director and Photographer Bethany Vargas
In-person at the Ahmanson Auditorium (Hillside Campus) + on Zoom
Thursday, July 13th, 2023 |  7PM PT/10PM ET

Bethany Vargas is a photographer + director based in Los Angeles. Her creative journey reflects a place where fashion and fiction meet, paying special attention to materials, light, and texture. Being able to effectively navigate both film and stills, Bethany creates thoughtful and dynamic content in a multitude of mediums.

Greg Hoffman, founder of the brand advisory group Modern Arena and former Chief Marketing Officer of Nike, details the importance of creativity in a consumer driven world. This lecture and presentation provides a behind-the-scenes look at brand innovation, “because the world never stops turning and the consumer’s expectations never stop expanding.”

Join us for our next guest lecture, [Zoned in and Out of Focus: Fashion Photography with Mark de Paola]
In-person at the LA Times Theater (Hillside Campus) + on Zoom
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 | 7PM PT/10PM ET

Mark de Paola is a New York City-based fine art and fashion photographer with over 30 years of experience shooting campaign and fine art commissions for the likes of Vogue Spain, Vogue Mexico, Gucci, Oscar de la Renta, Prabal Gurung, David Koma, Roksanda, and Saint Laurent.

De Paola has directed several hundred television spots in the fashion/beauty sector including those for Giorgio RED Perfume (Bergdorf Goodman windows and MoMA NY), Ducati, Leica Camera, Sony, Neutrogena, and Ford Motorsports.

De Paola's fine art work is included in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Getty in Los Angeles, the San Diego Center of Photographic Arts, and the TOP Museum in Tokyo. His photography monographs Recent Work I (2018), Recent Work II (2019), and Five Years and Sixty Seconds (2020) can be found with Leica Camera retailers in major cities worldwide. De Paola's solo exhibitions have traveled around the world including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dali (China), Tokyo, Milan (Triennale Museum), and at home in New York City.

De Paola's pictorialist work as a still and motion artist has been driven by his studies of the neurobiology and cognitive psychology of human vision.

Join us for our next guest lecture, Immersive Storytelling: Artist Talk with Isadora Kosofsky
In-person at the LA Times Theater (Hillside Campus) + on Zoom.
Thursday August 4th, 2022 | 7PM PT/10PM ET

Isadora Kosofsky is a renowned documentary photographer based in Los Angeles. She is known for long-term projects centered on juvenile and mass incarceration, aging and relationships, healthcare, disability rights, and the impact of childhood trauma on women and families. Ms. Kosofsky began her career as a teenager, focusing on end of life and grief. She takes an immersive approach to documentary photography, often spending months and years with individuals and communities to gain an insider’s perspective. She has embedded with families suffering from rare illness in Latin America, lived under city bridges with unhoused communities in the Southwestern U.S, spent fourteen years photographing one woman’s struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease, and was one of the first photojournalists in the US allowed inside a COVID+ nursing home. Ms. Kosofsky is a National Geographic Photographer and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, TIME, Le Monde, and others. She received a 2012 Inge Morath Award for her documentation of three seniors in a romantic conflict, which became a book titled “Senior Love Triangle” published by Kehrer Verlag in 2020. The Royal Photo Society recently named her one of a hundred “heroines” in photography worldwide. Ms Kosofsky is a TED Fellow, part of a network of global innovators, and gave a talk about documentary photography at TED 2018 in Vancouver.

Join us for an evening Artist Talk with Diego Uchitel!
In-person at the LA Times Theater (Hillside Campus) + on Zoom.
Thursday July 7th, 2022 | 6PM PT/9PM ET

ArtCenter Photo is thrilled to welcome Diego Uchitel as our next visiting Artist Lecturer as well as Fashion Photography professor for Fall ‘22. Diego Uchitel is an artist with over 30 years of experience photographing the world’s most beautiful and intriguing subjects. Uchitel’s career is defined by his versatility and a preternatural ability to capture the emotion of a stolen moment. With a masterful eye for light and composition, his work is unabashedly romantic and timeless.

Spend your afternoon with ArtCenter Photo!
Join us for our upcoming virtual Artist Talk with Quil Lemons
April 5th | 12PM PT/3PM ET | On Zoom

ArtCenter Photo is thrilled to welcome Quil Lemons as our next visiting Artist Lecturer. Quil is a New York-based photographer with a distinct visual language that interrogates ideas around masculinity, family queerness, race, and beauty.

View more of Quil’s work: quillemons.com + @QuilLemons

Free and open to all!

You’re invited to ArtCenter Photo’s upcoming virtual Artist Talk,
“Photography on the Sly, A Conversation with Melissa Breyer and Bill Shapiro”
March 10th | 12PM PT/3PM ET | On Zoom

We are delighted to have author and former Editor-in-Chief of Life Magazine, Bill Shapiro, facilitating an illuminating conversation with photographer and writer Melissa Breyer. This program will touch on contemporary street photography, women in street photography, publishing photography books, and working with editors.

You’re invited to ArtCenter Photo’s upcoming virtual Artist Talk with Maggie Steber.
December 9th | 4PM PT/7PM ET | On Zoom

Maggie Steber is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2017-2018, and has worked in 70 countries photographing stories on the human condition. She was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic magazine. Other honors include Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2019, the President’s Award from the Overseas Press Club, the Lucie Award for Photojournalism 2019, Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation Awards, Pictures of the Year Awards, Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, the Ernst Haas Grant and a Knight Foundation Grant.

Steber’s photographs are included in the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation Collection and the Richter Library Collections at the University of Miami. Earlier in her career, Steber worked as a photo editor for Associated Press and Director of Photography at The Miami Herald, as well as a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine. She is affiliated with VII Photo Agency and lives in Miami, FL.

Please join us as Ricky Weaver, ArtCenter AICAD Fellows Artist is Residence, discusses the relationship between Image Ontology and Dark Sousveillance as it relates to the photographic medium and the ritual of making.

Image Ontology and Dark Sousveillance: Ricky Weaver on the Ritual of Making is an in person and virtual event. ArtCenter Faculty, Students, and Staff are encourage to attend in person at the LA Times Media Center. This event will simultaneously be available on Zoom to the greater ArtCenter Community.

This event is free!

ArtCenter College of Design
Dx3: Dialogues in Diversity & Design
Fall 2021 Virtual Speaker Series

ArtCenter Admissions in collaboration with the Center for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion presents Dx3: Dialogues in Diversity & Design, a virtual speaker series. For the Fall 2021 edition, we will engage in conversation with influential alumni who have utilized their creativity to inspire, empower and highlight their communities through their own personal narratives and creative careers. Additionally, each alumni speaker will share their pathway to ArtCenter and how their identities informed their pursuit of an art and design education.

Rhombie Sandoval
BFA 14 Photography & Imaging
Thursday, November 18, 2021
6:00PM PT

Rhombie Sandoval is a photographer and storyteller currently residing in Southern California. Her entry into photography started after receiving a camera as a gift from the Make A Wish Foundation, a gesture arranged on her behalf due to being born with heart disease. With the camera, Sandoval realized she could navigate her shyness and connect with people using the camera as a tool to understand various vantage points, searching for and highlighting the common themes linked to one’s identity and location. Sandoval received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from ArtCenter College of Design. She is also the founder of Anywhere Blvd, a platform which features portrait photographers by promoting the narratives of their subjects.

Currently, Sandoval is working on releasing her new body of work ‘King’ shot during her residency in Marrakech, Morocco as a member of The Queens Collective.

Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link the day of the event.
This virtual speaker event with Rhombie Sandoval is co-sponsored by ArtCenter Admissions, the Center for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI), and the Photography and Imaging Department.

You’re invited to ArtCenter Photo’s upcoming artist talk, In Conversation with Michael Grant.
November 10th | 6PM PT | On Zoom

Michael Grant was born in Miami, FL and currently works out of Brooklyn, NY. Grant is an artist who investigates aesthetics of blackness, class, family, relationships, and cultural diversities. Grant works across multiple mediums developing bodies of work employing photography, collage, video, sculpture, and sound design. Constantly inspired by the materiality of black culture and its expression through domestic environments, Grant is drawn to non-traditional processes with the aim of showcasing a new standard.