• Derek Goldberg, FORUM, Jan. 2022

  • Ryan Lafferty, Open Show #40

  • Jeff Larason, Open Show #40

  • Gwendolyn Anne Davies, Open Show #38

  • Roberta Mangini Glisson, Open Show #38

  • Cassandra Klos, Open Show #39

  • Joseph Akerman, Open Show #37

  • Gershon Kreimer, Open Show #36

  • Granville Carroll, Open Show #35

  • Laura Belevica, Open Show #35

promoting diverse photography projects by established and emerging photographers worldwide

Support Pasadena Photography Arts…

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Join us each month for our alternating FORUM and Open Show events. Through FORUM, we invite special guests including museum curators, art educators, and long-established photographers. And through Open Show - Pasadena/East LA, we support the projects of emerging and professional fine art, documentary and conceptual photographers.

 
 
 

PPA Photo Award ‘25

The third annual PPA Photo Award is now accepting applications: “Excellence in Contemporary Photography” (Open Theme)

Deadline to apply: April 7, 2025

“The Pasadena Photographic Arts FORUM is an irreplaceable player in the rich Southern California art ecosystem. It's been my absolute pleasure to join the lively roster of artists, curators, and speakers showing work and putting a fine shine on the state of photography. PPA/FORUM is a connector, a nexus, a vibrant creator of community."

– Douglas McCulloh, Senior Curator, California Museum of Photography

EVENT SPOTLIGHT

 
 

WATCH OPEN SHOW #48: “LOVE”

Open Show - Pasadena/East LA #48 features…

MAGDALENA SALIBA presenting "Memory hurts wherever you touch it"
CLARA JEANNE REED presenting "I'd Go to Church if it was Pink"
KRISTINE SCHOMAKER presenting "Perceive Me"
PATRICIA MCELROY presenting "Between Then & Now"