A person looks at ceramic sculptor of an engine entitled, “Static Fuel #4” by artist Steven Montgomery at Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair at  Barker Hangar on Saturday, January 21, 2012.

Attendees look at Bob Poe’s “eyePhoto” (captured with an iPhone) during the 21st Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition (photo LA) opening night reception at the historic Santa Monica Civic Center on Thursday, January 12 2012. 

Over the past twenty-one years Photo L.A. has earned a reputation as one of the foremost art fairs and the leading photo-based events in the country representing the finest galleries from around the globe and has exhibited more than three hundred galleries, private dealers and publishers and has presented more than one hundred and fifty lectures and collecting seminars to the public.

Continuing the discourse on photography’s place in the fine arts, Photo L.A. provides galleries from around the globe a platform for the exhibition of vintage masterworks and contemporary photography, as well as video and multimedia installations. This exciting juxtaposition creates the unique environment that characterizes photo l.a.

Photo L.A. attracts over eleven thousand interested collectors, curators and dealers of photography each year.

The opening Gala Reception benefits the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography.

Photo L.A. runs through Sunday, January 16th.

Teachers, parents, and students help paint Artist David Legaspi’s a multicultural-themed and environmental-themed murals at Franklin Elementary School on Sunday, October 23, 2011.

A pair of glittering red high-heel shoes and a trophy cutout hang from a power line on Main Street on Wednesday, September 21, 2011. The hanging installation art was put up throughout L.A. to promote artist Manny Castro’s upcoming show "This Hollywood Life" at Gallery iam8bit in Echo Park. The show starts September 29, 2011, located at 2147 W. Sunset Boulevard.

Rawesome muralist Carole De Cruz creates a FARMAGEDDON movie poster in chalk on the sidewalk at Ocean Avenue on Saturday, September 17, 2011. Farmageddon is a documentary about the escalating fight for food rights in America. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why. Farmageddon exposes the battle over food rights in America. Farmer's and consumers start food co-ops and buying clubs or homesteads, and then are shut down by the government in the name of food safety.

The chalk art mural was sponsored by Real Food Rights. Real Food Rights is a movement to protect your right to choose real, unprocessed foods including raw milk and other unpasteurized and non-irradiated fresh foods.

Real Food Rights believes everyone has the right to choose to eat real food, defined as nutrient-dense, enzyme-rich, fresh living raw foods–including raw milk and other dairy like raw butter and yogurt that hasn’t been pasteurized and homogenized, natural raw honey that hasn’t been heated and filtered, and fresh raw almonds that haven’t been irradiated.

Real Food Rights believes in the freedom to contract directly with independent farmers to steward ownership of herds and crops in order to meet community standards of excellence. We exercise the right to obtain food that was grown or made by people we know and have direct relationships with.

Real Food Rights believes the right to choose the food we eat, including raw living food, and the right to choose the source of our food, is a fundamental liberty protected by the Right to Privacy clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. No state or federal or county agency or corporate lobby has the authority to violate this fundamental right.

Real Food Rights believes the FDA has a longstanding conflict of interest with the multi-billion dollar commercial food industry, including the commercial dairy industry, whose focus on mass production, profit, and long shelf life has mass-produced ‘dead’ food, including ‘dead’ milk, with little functional nutritional value, and that has contributed to the obesity, asthma, and allergies epidemics.

Real Food Rights believes that commercial food mass-produced on factory farms must have different standards to guarantee food safety than small independent farms contracting herd shares to private food clubs who are held personally responsible for quality assurance and freshness by the members of such clubs. We believe that pasteurizing commercial milk can cover up many poor practices on factory dairy farms. We don’t recommend that anyone eat commercial, factory-raised, hybridized dairy products raw.

Real Food Rights believes the Real Food Rights movement is part of the Green Movement toward a new sustainable economy, because eating fresh living quality foods grown on local small farms feeds sustainable local economies.

Real Food Rights mission is to protect your right to choose real, unprocessed foods including raw milk and other unpasteurized and non-irradiated fresh foods.

Children help paint Artist David Legaspi’s Ocean-Themed mural at Franklin Elementary School on Saturday, September 3, 2011. This mural is just part of a bigger courtyard remodeling project in the school featuring new tables, awnings and landscaping. The Courtyard remodeling project is sponsored by the Grazer family.

A woman rides an art bicycle covered in fake pink fur along the Santa Monica bike path on Wednesday, August 3, 2011.

Members from the Santa Monica Family YMCA and the Santa Monica Police Activities League take photos from atop Joyce Kohl’s public art sculpture entitled "Ocean Park Segue" (1988), during Santa Monica Bay Human Relations Council's Kids With Cameras Summer Photo Workshop on Wednesday, August 3, 2011.