APA LA at SMC with Julia Dean

Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, and founder of the Los Angeles Center of Photography, formerly The Julia Dean Photo Workshops. She 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 40 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. Her extensive teaching experience includes 33 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 and the Los Angeles Center of Photography.For the past 15 years, Julia has concentrated on street photography around the world. For the past five years, street shooting in downtown Los Angeles has been her primary focus. In 2014, one of her L.A. street photos — The Kiss — won for the United States in an international street shooting contest. The same photograph won first place in Leica’s I-Shot-It street shooting contest in 2015. Julia received a Bachelor of Science degree in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska, and is the author/photographer of the award-winning children’s book, A Year on Monhegan Island.

Julia will be showing three bodies of work during her presentation. The World in Black & White, is a retrospective body of work covering 33 years of travels around the U.S. and the world, all shot with black & white film. The second body of work is from the San Carlos Apache Reservation where Julia lived for two months in 2009 while documenting everyday life on the reservation. Lastly, Julia will present a 10-minute slideshow of her street shots of downtown Los Angeles from the past five years.

PARKING: $10 Parking at Pico and 14th
See map here.

Please note: Please arrive 1 hour early to allow for street parking on meters or empty spots. The College has evening classes at the same time, arriving early does not guarantee free parking.
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