Have your work exhibited in Los Angeles at the FOCUS photo l.a. pop-up gallery and win a round trip ticket and two night stay to attend the opening of the exhibition. 

For 27 years  photo l.a. has celebrated and brought together the photography and arts community from around the world. It is with this mission in mind that we present FOCUS photo l.a. , a competition open to help provide emerging and mid-career artists/photographers opportunities to promote their work and broaden their career paths.

The FOCUS photo l.a. finalists will be determined by a panel of renowned art and photography experts (see below) who will select the Top Twenty photographs from the completed submissions. Our partners, A&I Fine Art & Photography  and Fine Art Solutions  will take these twenty photographs and professionally print and expertly frame them, respectively, for exhibition.

One lucky Grand Prize Winner will be selected from the Top Twenty finalists and receive a round-trip ticket to Los Angeles along with a two-night stay in Los Angeles to attend the opening of the gallery exhibition.

Register today at www.focusphotola.com or by clicking below.
  [meet the judges]

JO ANN CALLIS   (Artist and Educator CalArts)
Jo Anne Callis was born in Cincinnati and began teaching at CalArts in 1976. Her work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Gallery Min, Tokyo and Rose Gallery here in Santa Monica. In 2009 a retrospective of her work, Woman Twirling, was presented by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Callis has received three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as many other awards and prizes.


PARIS CHONG   (Curator and Gallery Manager Leica, Los Angeles)

Miss Chong has seventeen years of experience in curating, managing, and promoting fine art galleries and artists of every genre. Currently, Paris coordinates and curates all events/art shows at the flagship store in WEHO for artists such as Bruce Gilden, Danny Clinch, Julian Lennon, Lenny Kravitz, Ralph Gibson, Neal Preston and Eli Reed. She has represented galleries and artists at events such as: Photo LA, Photo SF, Paris Photo, Paris Photo, Los Angeles and The Palm Springs Photo Festival as well as representing Leica Gallery Los Angeles at Art Basel Miami and Paris Photo, France. She has reviewed portfolios for Farmani Gallery, Fresh Look and The Palm Springs Photo Festival. Paris’ love of art contributes to showcasing established and up and coming local and international artists. 

Paris recently curated the Fall Photo Gallery at the historic ASC Clubhouse in Hollywood featuring still photographs by the world’s top Directors of Photography and has been invited back for their Spring show in 2018.
Miss Chong is on the event committee for PHOTO15, 16 and 17...an organization raising money to build The International Aids Monument in West Hollywood as well as Fresh Focus/ City of Hearts, an arts education program that collects funds to keep art training in underprivileged areas around the greater Los Angeles area as well as The Covenant House, providing shelter for underprivileged youth.

RACHEL PEART      (Specialist, Associate Vice President, Photographs, Phillips, New York)

Rachel joined Phillips in 2015 after eight years in the auction industry. She previously served as the Director of Photographs at Heritage Auctions, working with Photographs, Fine Art, and Historical collections around the United States and holding auctions in Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York. During her tenure, she brought numerous private and corporate collections to the photographs, modern, and contemporary markets. She has continued her growth in this role working closely with collectors and focusing on appraisals within the department. Most recently she managed the exhibition That Day: Laura Wilson, Pictures in the American West which was on view in New York from January – February 2017. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and previously held a position assisting the Registrar at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.