IT'S PHOTO MONTH IN SEPTEMBER @ LPM GALLERY.

TONITE: "THE PRICE OF SEX" BY MIMI CHAKAROVA

LATER THIS MONTH:
FEATURING TONY FOUHSE / OTTAWA
& SCOT SOTHERN / LOS ANGELES


TONY FOUHSE: New Photographs
ANGELENOS / Portraits from L.A.

September 7 – 20, 2012
Vernissage Friday 7 / 7 – 10pm
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Statement:

"Beyond the cliché, Los Angeles is a tough town to photograph. The  
landmarks and the myths are top of mind but the reality is something  
else.

Photographer Tony Fouhse spent 8 days in Los Angeles looking behind  
the scenes, shooting 4×5 portraits of Angelenos, plain and simple.
He went to the usual spots: Hollywood, The Sunset Strip, Venice  
Beach. And he went places he was told he couldn’t: South Central,  
East L.A.

These 10 portraits show some of the people he met and photographed:  
Russian emigrés, gang bangers, runaways. . .
The face of Los Angeles you don’t see on Entertainment Tonight".




and...


SCOT SOTHERN / LOWLIFE
PHOTOGRAPHS

September 21 – October 4, 2012
Vernissage Friday Sept 21 / 7 – 10pm
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Proudly Sponsored by CKCU 93.1 FM

Statement:

Cruising night time byways for an adrenaline high, Scot Sothern first  
patronized the marketplace of curbside prostitution on a prurient  
whim. Diving to the murky depths of sexual obsession he resurfaced  
five years later, shell shocked, and without excuse. While there,  
trusty Nikon in hand, Scot snapped what he saw: full-frontal X-rated  
realities, fine-art documents, black and white, pathos and pizzazz.

LOWLIFE is an illustrated diary of dysfunction; the confessions of a  
befuddled baby-boomer maintaining a precarious connection to  
propriety and fatherhood while side-tripping into noirish  
infatuations. These stories and images, shot mostly in Southern  
California between 1986 and 1990 record the existence of the many  
disenfranchised Americans, men and women, hawking body and soul for  
the price of a Big Mac and a fix, struggling in a culture that deems  
them criminal and expendable.'

Sothern is an American born and based photographer, spending the  
majority of his career in commercial photography and film.  
‘Lowlife’ is his first exhibited series, and has propelled Sothern  
to fame with the courageous honesty in his text and the  
uncompromising direction of his images. This will be his first  
Canadian exhibition.

Leaving home and formal education at seventeen, in the 1960′s, Scot  
Sothern spent thirty-seven unsettled years hustling freelance  
photography. Scot worked in department stores, churches, bowling  
alleys, sports events and high school proms. He worked in a cave at a  
tourist-trap in Missouri, making and selling photo mementos.  
Traveling with aportable studio, knocking door-to-door in suburban  
America, he made and sold children’s portraits and novelties–photo  
buttons and key-chain viewers. Scot shot model’s portfolios, head- 
shots, and nude magazine layouts. He spent three years in  
Tallahassee, Florida, with a photography studio, three seasons with a  
high school yearbook studio in Los Angeles, and has been employed in  
three different cities as a darkroom technician.

In 1983, in Saudi Arabia, Scot made industrial training films and  
photographed the disappearing Bedouin tribes. He worked as an optical  
camera operator in Los Angeles and New York City. Scot photo- 
illustrated a series of magazine stories including "Shopping For God:  
Religious Cults in America". These essays were represented by both  
the Black Star and Onyx Photo agencies and published worldwide.  
Forced into commercial retirement by the crippling by product of a  
motorcycle mishap, Scot now writes books and has continued making  
photographs.

In 2010 Scot’s first solo exhibit, LOWLIFE, was at the Drkrm Gallery  
in Los Angeles. In 2011 Lowlife, the book, photos and text, was  
published in the UK by Stanley Barker.

This is Scot's Canadian Premiere for LOWLIFE.


Merci,


Guy Berube, Director
La Petite Mort Gallery
www.lapetitemortgallery.com