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: Gil Garcetti
Gil Garcetti
Photographer
Many people remember Gil Garcetti as the Los Angeles County District Attorney. Much of his life, however, has been as an urban photographer. Since leaving the District Attorney’s office in 2000, Gil has six photographic books published and has had photographic exhibitions around the world, including the United Nations, the National Building Museum in Washington D.C., the Millennium Art Museum in Beijing, New York City Public Library for Performing Arts and the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Garcetti’s book WATER IS KEY includes 78 black and white photographs and features essays by prominent leaders, President Jimmy Carter, former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson and the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sileaf.
As of June 13, 2010