The Los Angeles Center of Photography is thrilled to produce an ongoing series on the history of photography. The series, typically offered the third Tuesday of each month, will be divided into the genres of photography.
Ann Mitchell is an artist who uses photography to explore space and place, actively engaged in creating worlds of poetic experience. After completing a BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design, she worked as an award-winning advertising and editorial photographer for over a decade. She then returned to school to complete a MFA in Art from Claremont Graduate University. While there, in addition to producing her own work, she also curated several large art projects and has continued that commitment to community through the organizing of photo-related events. After graduation she joined the Art Department at Long Beach City College, where she taught for over two decades, hosted multiple visual media festivals, served as Chair and as Digital Media Program Coordinator. In 2020 she transitioned into being an actively practicing full-time artist while continuing to teach through workshops, curation and individual tutoring.
Her work been featured in Black and White Photography UK, Float Magazine, Women's Art Quarterly, Lenscratch, Lenswork, Balcony Press and many other publications. Her imagery has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been part of exhibitions at the Center for Photographic Art, Seoul Museum of Art, CSU Long Beach Art Gallery to name just a few. She continues to mentor and pursue her photographic interests in her most recent series The Chance Chronicles, a photomontage set of platinum palladium dreamscapes.
