Candace Biggerstaff - WIPI Photo LA 2013 Curator:

Candace Biggerstaff was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California, as the youngest of five children. Upon receiving a used Aries rangefinder camera on her thirteenth birthday, her passion for photography was born.

When Candace turned 20 she decided to join Circus Vargas with her soon to be husband, and traveled the country with the circus from city to city for almost 2 years. She has always been intrigued and fascinated by the circus and all of its intricacies, which she has portrayed in various ways through her photography.

“My world is seen as a series of photographs. Growing up, my favorite magazine was LIFE. My favorite book was, The Family of Man, having no idea that the incredible Edward Steichen was the photographer. For me the images were an escape from reality, with reality.”

Her most significant influences include Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Henri Cartier Bresson. Growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the late fifties and sixties exhibit the colors and forms she is drawn to photograph. Candace continues to document a variety of Circus’s. She is also currently working on a series of memorable areas of Los Angeles she frequented with her Father and siblings, “To Celebrate Los Angeles That
still is “.

Candace is currently a member of Los Angeles Art Association, a Charter member of Women In Photography International, and also resides as an “Artist in Residence,” at Studio Channel Islands Art Center.

11 x 14 images printed on eco friendly bamboo along with a selection of acrylic and metal prints through PROLABdigital.com

Candace Biggerstaff images
"Dinner Plates " 20" x 50"
"The Steering Wheel" 40" x 50"

www.CandaceBiggerstaff.com

Barbara Pickles, Camarillo, CA
"Confessions of a Stay At Home Mom #6"

Barbara Pickles is a fine art and commercial photographer in Southern California. After studying art at Wellesley College she became a photographer, art director and commercial producer in Los Angeles. Completing her MFA studies in photography in 2010 at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, Pickles continues to develop her photographic career. In this body of work as an American woman, wife, and mother of three boys, Pickles worked to convey her personal reality within the family. This process constantly brought her back to the dining room table. Yet, in all the images the artist was absent. Ultimately she stepped in front of the camera, and through pose and gesture found a language to communicate her emotional experiences as an American woman, wife, and mother. This is excerpt from a body of 13 images.
barbarapicklesphotography.blogspot.com

Candace Biggerstaff, Newbury Park, CA
"Brand Library Cadallic Scones" 40" x 50"

Candace Biggerstaff, Newbury Park, CA see above
"The Steering Wheel" 40" x 50"

http://www.candacebiggerstaff.com

Diane Silverman, Los Angeles, CA
"In The Beginning"

Diane Silverman has been an actively engaged artist in a variety of media for most of her adult life, with a concentrated focus on photography for the past 20 years. Professionally she is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and art therapist in private practice. This image is part of a continuing project based on autobiographical impressions. After many years of photographing others, she has turned the camera on herself through a series of actual self-portraits and metaphorical still life images. Through her imagery, she hopes to evoke in the viewer a resonance with some of the unspoken internal experiences that lie at a very deep level of human existence. Diane still photographs exclusively with film.
djsilverman@sbcglobal.net

Jamie Johnson, Sherman Oaks, CA
"The Swing"

Jamie Johnson is a Los Angeles based award winning photographer. Her work has been published in International photography magazines and shown in galleries is nine different countries. Her body of work includes the Orphanages of Cambodia, the Rural Tribes of India, the Children who live in the dumps of Mexico, as well and the Children of the Jungles of Laos. Her project "Portraits of Skid Row Thru the Eyes of the Children" has been shown worldwide in 5 galleries and featured in the Fowler Museum. Her work in the "I Love LA" exhibit can currently be seen at The Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles and this Fall will start a worldwide tour starting in Korea. Her most recent work on Cuba can now be seen at the Wooburn Art Festival in England.
Jamie Johnson
www.jamiejohnsonphotography.com

Jean Ferro, Los Angeles, CA
"Crystal Slippers"


Jean Ferro, Los Angeles, CA
"Pink Duck" series, ducks-in-a-row"

Jean Ferro's fine art self-portrait work has been published in international publications Zoom, French Photo and Japan's Shukan Shincho. TV magazine network shows include ABC Eye On LA and the CBS, America Show. Ferro's film and music personality collection includes such artists as David Bowie, Reba McEntire, Ringo Starr, and her actor/director son, Eric Etebari. She produced and directed 30 min documntary "Through Our Own Eyes, Self-Portrait by People Without Homes." As a feature photographer for Los Angeles Magazine, Ferro photographed Arianna Huffington, Larry Gelbart, Fred Otash and others. Her collections include self-portraits, Global Liberty, Bucks County, Pa, Film/Music and the ducks-in-a-row series. President of WIPI 2000-2012
www.JeanFerro.com

Kathy Corday, Chicago, IL
"Gray Image TWO"

Kathy Corday expands her exploration of the charisma of humanity as it exists in shadow to include an examination of our need to categorize what we see in the latest images from her Gray series. As a photographic artist and writer, the former Walt Disney Imagineer embraces her photography with renewed vigor. Having recently completed the artist proofs of her new book, Gray...A Lyrical Tale for Our Time, she looks forward to sharing her work with the world through its publication. Previously, Ms. Corday taught photography at the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia. Exhibitions of her work include the WIPI Exhibition at photoLA 2011; Long Beach Arts, the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, OxBow; and in 1990 Women In Photography International.
http://womeninphotography.org/photoprofile/KathyCorday/index.html

Patrizia Pulga, Bologna - ITALY
"Bilbao"

Italian professional photographer since 1979. As commercial photographer I produce pictures of food for european companies, books and magazines. As photojournalist I am concerned with:Social topics as immigration and women’s condition in Italy, Africa, Asia, North and South America. Architecture and town planning in several cities in  Italy, France, England, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Chech Republic,Turkey and in U.S.A.: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, San Diego and Las Vegas. I had many exhibitions in Europe and U.S.A. and published several books. Some of my pictures are acquired by Beinecke Libray, Yale University, USA, and by CSAC, Parma University, Italy. As photography teacher, I am working since 2001 in an Italian high school for graphic design and I realized many workshops in different Universities and cities in Italy and Spain.
www.patriziapulga.it
www.foodimmagine.it

Wendi Schneider, Denver, CO
"Tiger"

Photographer and designer Wendi Schneider is known for her graceful compositions, which are the foundation for her detailed, sensual photographs. Her color, black and white, sepia and hand-painted photographs are exhibited and collected worldwide and have been featured in magazines, advertising, book covers, spa installations, websites and more. Much of her work is inspired by the natural world, reflecting the lush sensuality of her southern heritage and her background in art history and oil painting. Born in Memphis, she has worked in extensively in New Orleans, New York and Denver and recently the San Francisco area where she is photographing in Marin.

www.wsphotodesign.com