Leopoldo Peña's Instantáneos
September 12, 2009
RETRATOS Y RECUERDOS Exhibit
June 01, 2009
From June 6 – July 3, The Marengo Collection will exhibit RETRATOS Y RECUERDOS, a photography exhibition featuring the images of Bill Brewer, Corey Kaplan, Andy Kitchen, Manuel Martinez, Eriberto Oriol, Leopoldo Pena, Vicki Ragan, Domingo Rodriguez, and Jessica Torres.
The opening reception is scheduled on Saturday, June 6,
2 – 6 P.M.
Leopoldo Peña's South Central Farmers
March 30, 2009
Leopoldo Peña's portraits of some of the South Central Farmers are great historical documents of Latinos in Los Angeles. Between 1994 and 2006 the South Central Farm was located at East 41st and South Alameda Streets in an industrial area of South Los Angeles. Peña spent two months photographing the farmers in mid-2006.
Peña did not document the farmers like most of the media who merely covered the closure of the farm but failed to document the over 350 families as urban farmers. "I decided to just do portraits. I thought it was a different take and it also forced me to interact more with the farmers, instead of just sneaking on them and shooting a photo through the fence like most people were doing. I wanted to do something more humane, more personal, something that most of the media there were not doing."
Peña attended East Los Angeles College and California State University, Long Beach.
