Photographer’s Eye

This series of presentations on Los Angeles photographers began in 1994 with a lecture on the career of Los Angeles photographer Will Connell. Michael Dawson of Dawson’s Book Shop gave the slide presentation. At present, Photo Friends has hosted more than 80 Los Angeles photographers.

Unless otherwise noted, this bimonthly lunchtime lecture series is held on the second Wednesday of February, April, June, August, October and December in Meeting Room A at the Central Library. (map)

Check back for information about future programs and an updated Past Speakers List.

Past Speakers

February 2024 Rick Castro S/M Blvd: Street Hustler Photographs
October 2023 Kristin Bedford – Cruise Night
December 2020 Michele Asselin – Hollywood Park
February 2020 Miriam Caldwell – The Lost History of the Clifton’s Cafeteria Camera Girls
October 2019 Osceola Refetoff – Creativity and the Documentary Impulse
August 2019 Cat Gwynn – 10-Mile Radius
June 2019 Stephen Schafer – Capturing History Forever, Photographing for the Historic American Buildings Survey
April 2019 Robert Pacheco – Downtown L.A. Street Scenes of a Fading Era
February 2019 Pamela Peters – NDNZ in the City: Multi-media Narratives of American Indian Culture in the Heart of Los Angeles
October 2018 Tom LaBonge – Tom LaBonge Loves LA
August 2018 George Rodriguez – Double Vision
April 2018 Fiona Connor – Placeholder for a Grand Central Market Archive
February 2018 Christina Rice – Inside the LAPL Photo Collection
October 2017 Ken Karagozian – Building the Downtown Los Angeles Regional Transit Project
August 2017 Nick Ut
June 2017 Todd Blubaugh – Too Far Gone
April 2017 Raul Roa – Pro Tips to Improve Your Photography
February 2017 Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin – North of the 101
October 2016 David K. Thompson – Seeing Downtown
August 2016 David Davis – One Golden Moment: 1984 LA Olympics
June 2016 Warren Hill – Power & Persistence: Grassroots Activists & Musicians in LA
April 2016 Leopoldo Peña – Interlude on Broadway
February 2016 Roger Steffens – The Forrest Gump of LSD
August 2015 Julie Green – California Country Fairs
June 2015 Elisa Leonelli – 1970s Street Photography
April 2015 George Brich – CarScapes
January 2015 Douglas Hill & Martin Cox – Shooting Architecture
October 2014 Art Meza – Lowriting
August 2014 Eric John – Outtakes: What You Don’t See in Photographs
June 2014 Kevin McCollister – East of West LA
April 2014 Anne Fishbein – Racetrack Culture
October 2013 Helen Garber – Urban Noir: LA/NY
August 2013 Jeffrey Schwartz – Rock & Rock Seen: Los Angeles Through the Lens of Chuck Boyd
June 2013 Sara Jane Boyers – Finding Chinatown: An American Story
May 2013 Steve Grody – Graffiti: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
February 2013 John Tapia Urquiza – Sin Turistas: Welcome to Highland Park
August 2012 Kevin Knight – Heroes, Villains, Jedi, Fan Convention Portraits
April 2012 Ted Soqui & Glynn Martin – 20th Anniversary of the LA Riots
March 2012 John Matkowsky – Ansel Adams Los Angeles
February 2012 Beth Ann Guynn – A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution Revealed
November 2011 Gerald Panter – Eating on the Run
May 2011 Tom Zimmerman & Eric Evavold – Neon Noir
April 2008 Stefano Paltera
February 2008 Ann Mitchell
December 2007 Meredith Jenks
October 2007 Christopher James Alexander
August 2007 Stone Ishimaru
June 2007 David Fahey
April 2007 Douglas McCulloh
February 2007 Doug Hill
December 2006 Catherine Bauknight
October 2006 Hans Gutknecht
August 2006 Rick Namiahs
June 2006 Wendy Horowitz
April 2006 George Bojorquez
February 2006 Wendy Cheng
December 2005 Peter Reiss
October 2005 Hector Mata
August 2005 Rick Mechtly
June 2005 Francine Orr
April 2005 Cheryl Himmelstein
February 2005 Michael Grecco
December 2004 Sports symposium moderated by Andy McCue with photographers Andrew Bernstein, Keith Birmingham, Anne Knudsen, and James Ruebsamen
October 2004 David Davis
August 2004 Tom Lamb
June 2004 Mark Johnstone
April 2004 Julius Shulman
February 2004 Don Rogers
December 2003 Virginia Lee Hunter
October 2003 Grant Mudford
August 2003 Douglas McCulloh
June 2003 Paul Kopeikin
April 2003 Gail Albert Halaban
February 2003 Art Streiber
December 2002 Gil Garcetti
October 2002 Carolyn Cole
August 2002 Charles Phoenix
June 2002 Nick Ut & Mark Edward Harris
April 2002 Julia Dean
February 2002 Delmar Watson
December 2001 Robert Glenn Ketchum
August 2001 Slobodan Dimitrov
June 2001 Livia Corona & Joaquin Trujillo
April 2001 Stephen White
February 2001 David Strick
December 2000 Darryl Curran
October 2000 Howard Bingham
August 2000 Marissa Roth
June 2000 Ray McSavaney
April 2000 Lara Jo Regan
February 2000 Nancy Webber
December 1999 Jerry McMillan
October 1999 Sarah Fix
August 1999 Marvin Rand
June 1999 Lester Sloan
April 1999 Sheila Pinkel
February 1999 Robert Flick
December 1998 Lauren Greenfield
October 1998 Virgil Mirano
August 1998 Tom LaBonge
June 1998 Gregg Segal
April 1998 Robert Berger & Anne Conser
February 1998 Robert Landau
December 1997 Gary Leonard
October 1997 Lane Barden
August 1997 Earl Witscher
June 1997 Victoria Pearson
April 1997 Anthony Friedkin
February 1997 Bob Douglas
December 1996 Tim Street-Porter
October 1996 Kathleen Estrada
August 1996 Tom Zimmerman
June 1996 Roland Charles
April 1996 Karen Halverson
February 1996 Genaro Molina
December 1995 Thos K. Meyer
October 1995 Dennis Callwood
August 1995 Irene Fertik
June 1995 Todd Gray
April 1995 Iris Schneider
February 1995 John Humble