Opening Reception Party for PASSING THROUGH Photographs by Leopoldo Pena

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The Avenue 50 Studio Annex presents:

PASSING THROUGH: Photographs by Leopoldo Peña

\\\"Passing Through is an excerpt of a larger body of work in which I am using street photography as a register of demographic change resulting from the deployment of economic forces to reshape the urban space. Although most of the images in the exhibit were captured at different points along the stretch of Broadway Avenue between Griffin Avenue and 9th concerned with the urban landscape than with the individuals who transits through the street on a daily basis. Ironically, the most obvious transformation manifested in the photographs is on the facades of buildings, yet, every architectural face-lift brings a disruption of the quotidian scene around it and with that, the displacements of those individuals who were part of it. And that less obvious change is what I seek to capture.\\\" -excerpt from Artist Statement

In our Main Gallery:

Preview Exhibition for 21st Annual Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery Tour

https://www.facebook.com/events/456481964449733/?source=1

Exhibits run: November 9 - December 7, 2013
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Bio

Leopoldo Peña was born in Michoacán, México and has lived in Los Angeles since 1992. He is a founding member of Colectivo Bajalta, a photo collective organized to promote photography and create a dialog between documentary photographers in the three Californias.

Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at University of California, Irvine. He received a Master’s degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature from Cal State University, Long Beach in 2012. He also works as a freelance photographer/language educator and on personal photo projects and spends most of his free time with his son.

The focus of his photography work is the documentation of cultural performance in California by immigrant communities from Oaxaca and the creation of images exploring the symbolism of human-made elements imposed on the natural landscape.

His work has been published in La Opinión, Al Borde, Derive, Grey Magazine, Retina, NACLA: Report on the Americas, B/W Magazine and El Tequio.