Expand and Contract: Notes about American Documentary Photography within the twenty first Century – In-Person Reception RSVP

Exhibiting Artists

Isadora Kosofsky | Susan Meisels | Keva Rosenfeld | John Senese | Eric Smith | Marcus Ubungen

Curator

Dr. Rotem Rozental, Los Angeles Center of Photography Executive Director and Chief Curator.

Opening Reception (In-Person)

July 25, 3 – 5pm with a walkthrough at 3:30pm RSVP BELOW

Exhibition Run Dates (In-Person)

July 25 – September 12, 2026

About

This third version of Expand and Contract focuses on American images at present, now that the primary quarter of the twenty-first century has drawn to a detailed. It asks whether or not this primary quarter-century of photographic manufacturing has traits formed by bigger societal, technological and geopolitical shifts. This isn’t an try to supply a sweeping view of documentary images within the US in latest many years. Rather, this exhibition is a modest and earnest try to contemplate how America sees itself, what it highlights and what may be lacking from the body, starting with the flip of the century and 9/11, exploring protests, circumstances of residing, and the aftermath of wildfires.

Documentary is a fancy discipline of follow, which has a deep (and at occasions contentious) relationship with illustration or the dearth thereof. This exhibition suggests such tensions must be highlighted, in addition to the methods by which photographers seize their very own communities and tales now.

Susan Meiselas takes the viewer to the border, creating its bodily presence within the house with a photographic mural, proven alongside compilations of movies grabbed from social media and different digital sources, depicting deportations and conflicts with ICE brokers. Isadora Kosofsky seems on the lives of households with incarcerated dad and mom at twelve males’s and ladies’s prisons in Florida. Eric Smith has been chronicling the protests in Los Angeles, between 2016-2026, starting with the primary Trump presidency. Marcus Ubungen has been returning to Altadena to seize portraits of residents, and the incongruities between incomprehensible devastation and chronic rebuilding efforts.

Documentary filmmaker Keva Rosenfeld’s intimate Polaroid portraits of a number of the most well-known individuals on this planet seize a tradition in transition, triggered by the rise of digital expertise. John Senese shares a never-before-seen collection concerning the World Trade Center and 9/11, depicting a world shifting endlessly in entrance of the lens.

Back to Show web page HERE.

Tickets

Admission is FREE. Please RSVP under. Suggested Donation HERE

• Date: Saturday, July 25, 3 – 5pm with a walkthrough at 3:30pm PST
• Free and Open to the Public
• Location: Downtown Los Angeles (LACP Headquarters), 252 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.
• Parking: Street parking, Public parking: Terasaki Budokan Recreation Center (paid, underground, simply throughout the road from LACP) and Joe’s Auto Parks Parking, 330 Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (paid, floor).

If you will have further questions please electronic mail [email protected].

Add to Calendar