Wallis Annenberg has announced that the Photo Space will not be re-opening. Read her letter of appreciation on the closing of a chapter in Los Angeles.

Photo by: Darcy Padilla
Darcy Padilla
Photographer

Darcy Padilla is a photographer, journalist, and educator focusing on contemporary issues and long-term projects. Exhibited and published internationally, Padilla documented the 2016 U.S. elections exclusively for Le Monde and, in 2017, she exhibited her ongoing project on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at the Visa pour l’image: International Festival of Photojournalism. Padilla was a judge on the second season of Sky Arts’ Master of Photography, simulcast across five countries (Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom). Family Love, her recent book, is based on Padilla’s documentary The Julie Project that follows a family for 21 years – an intimate story of poverty, AIDS, and social issues.
Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, three World Press Photo Awards, an Alexia Foundation Grant, the Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship, a Getty Images Grant, the Alicia Patterson Fellowship, International Photo-Reporter Grant, Canon Female Photojournalist Award, and the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography. Padilla has taught photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and UC Davis, lectured at Stanford University, Syracuse University, UC Berkeley, and led workshops at Rencontres d’Arles. She is a member Agence VU’ in Paris and currently lives in San Francisco.