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an afternoon with Anna Boyiazis

The photo exhibit of Anna Boyiazis, my online friend from Burn Magazine and Road Trips, was opening the weekend I was in Los Angeles. On Friday afternoon, May 20, 2011, my sister Emily and brother-in-law Gorsha and I met Anna at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery atop Olive Hill in Barnsdall Park. This was the first time Anna and I had met but we felt like we knew each other very well from having seen one another's work, reading comments we'd posted online and communicating by email. Although it was two days before the official opening, we were fortunate that the show was already open to the public and that dear Anna was willing to drive an hour on Los Angeles freeways to meet us.

A recipient of a 2011 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship, Anna had been invited by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery to present new work in the 2011 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition. This annual nonthematic group exhibition highlights a selection of new work from ten accomplished mid career LA contemporary artists. The exhibition runs Thursday, May 19 through Sunday, July 3, 2011. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Gallery will be hosting Conversations with the Artists. Anna's is Saturday, June 18 at 2 pm. All events are free and open to the public.

I was awestruck by the beauty, power and poignancy of the ten images Anna had chosen to show. They are from her ongoing body of work documenting AIDS orphans in Uganda, but instead of highlighting the suffering of these children, Anna shows their day-to-day lives as she experiences it with them during her stays in their village in Uganda. You can see more of Anna's photographs on her website, Anna Boyiazis Photography.
Anna Boyiazis in front of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Anna Boyiazis in front of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
the COLA exhibition poster
the COLA exhibition poster
Anna Boyiazis with her photographs
Anna Boyiazis with her photographs
Anna with one of her photos behind her
Anna with one of her photos behind her
Anna walks around the gallery space
Anna walks around the gallery space
Anna with her photos
Anna with her photos
Anna smiles at her beloved children in Uganda
Anna smiles at her beloved children in Uganda
Anna with my sister and brother-in-law, Emily and Gorsha Paramonov
Anna with my sister and brother-in-law, Emily and Gorsha Paramonov
Anna and Patricia as photographed by Emily Paramonova
Anna and Patricia as photographed by Emily Paramonova
man sitting outside the Thai restaurant where we ate
man sitting outside the Thai restaurant where we ate