On Saturday, April 11, Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles (PAC LA), based in Downtown Los Angeles, invited the LA arts community to hear about its latest initiative, PAC LA Partners, and its inaugural project with the photo department at Pasadena City College (PCC): Second Sight photography festival.
One of speakers at the launch event was a student winner from the first contest in 2023. They told the crowd gathered on the ocean-view terrace of Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica that the prize money they had won changed their life.
They did not have health insurance, and the money they received enabled them to complete their hormone replacement therapy as a transgender person. In addition, after submitting their winning portfolio to UCLA, they were accepted into the photography program. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 