A Tour of Artist and Photographer Zoe Crosher's Studio

Zoe Crosher, Founder and President of the Los Angeles branch of The Fainting Club, is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Inspired by the collapse of the image and the imaginary, Crosher explores disconnects between the fantasy of something and its reality. Through her conceptual mappings of identities and self-hoods, both of place (Out The Window and LA-LIKE) and person (The Michelle duBois Project), Crosher is interested in activating the gaps between expectation and misremembering. Recent works have been realized as sculptures and perfumes, billboards and desserts, entropic walls, and fools gold dust paintings, musical compositions and collaborations of all kinds, including curating, publications, and of course, images. Conflating the real and the fake, and concerned with an iterative process, repetition, and multiples that emerge through virtual and real-time, she engages the fiction of documentary and the impossibility of the archive, eschewing any sort of belief in a singular history – aka, the “Imagiatic”. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Photographer Melanie Pullen @ Paris Photo Los Angeles

While some kids had imaginary friends, photographer Melanie Pullen had a transvestite prostitute who she would speak to from her window as a 6 year old, after her parents went to sleep. These early dialogues with the dangerous world of the night in New York City, beyond her childhood bedroom, built the foundation for the strange and dark worlds of crime scenes and ghosts that inhabit her photographs. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Part Two: VIP Opening of Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015

Paris Photo Los Angeles returns this year to Paramount Pictures Studios' famous sound stages and New York City backlots. Paris Photo presents a true exploration of classic and contemporary photography and moving images - and everything in between. The fair opens today and runs until Sunday, May 3rd. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Part One: VIP Opening of Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015

Paris Photo Los Angeles returns this year to Paramount Pictures Studios' famous sound stages and New York City backlots. Paris Photo presents a true exploration of classic and contemporary photography and moving images - and everything in between. The fair opens today and runs until Sunday, May 3rd. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Cole Sternberg On His Solo Exhibition At Paris Photo L.A. →

Artist Cole Sternberg is gearing up for his solo exhibition at Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015 presented by MAMA Gallery. In the following interview, Sternberg discusses his show, entitled "My Grandmother's Den," which is essentially a photographic reproduction of his grandmother's den in Long Island, New York. He also discusses his practice and the fate of mankind. Read the full interview here. 

5 Must See Solo Exhibitions at Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015

Paris Photo Los Angeles returns to Paramount Pictures Studios where the photographic medium will be celebrated among the famous backlot movie sets, sound stages and classic replica's of New York City storefronts and streets. Here are some of the most exciting, must see solo exhibitions that will be on display: 1. Ren Hang presented by Capricious 88 (Stage 14 - Stand 4) 2. Cole Sternberg presented by MAMA (NYB / Stand H3) 3. David Benjamin Sherry presented by OHWOW (Stage 32 / Stand 15) 4. Guy Bourdin presented by Louise Alexander (Stage 31 / Stand 5) 5. Juergen Teller presented by Suzanne Tarasieve (NYB / Stand G5)