Event Dates
Time
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Gregory Halpern, works from the ZZYZX series, 2016. Courtesy of the Artist and Magnum Photos.
Book Launch
Book Launch | Andrew Witt’s Lost Days, Endless Nights: Photography and Film from Los Angeles
ADMISSION
Free
No RSVP required.
At 7:30pm Andrew Witt will present a slide presentation of material from the book, followed by a response and conversation with Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez. The book will be for sale at the event. Pale Fire’s salon will be open and is cash only.
Lost Days, Endless Nights: Photography and Film from Los Angeles (MIT Press, 2025) explores how artists and activists reimagined the aesthetic and political capacities of documentary photography and film from the 1970s to the present, with chapters on Agnès Varda, Allan Sekula, Asco, John Divola, Gregory Halpern, Guadalupe Rosales, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Anthony Hernandez, and the collaborative practice of Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.
Andrew Witt is an art historian and critic who writes on contemporary art. He is currently the 2025–2026 PERICULUM Foundation for Contemporary Art Discourse Fellow. His book “Lost Days, Endless Nights: Photography and Film from Los Angeles” was recently published by MIT Press (2025). Andrew’s writing has appeared in Camera Austria, History of Photography, Momus, Oxford Art Journal and Philosophy of Photography. Witt completed his PhD at University College London in 2017 and his MA at UCL in 2010. From 2018 to 2022 he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez is an artist working with photography and film/video. Recent solo presentations include David Peter Francis, New York City (2024); Center for Cultural & Artistic Practices, Winnipeg(2021); and Terremoto/ La Postal, Mexico City (2019). His work has been a part of group exhibitions, most recently, Luhring Augustine, New York City (2024); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2023), and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2022). His work has been featured in Aperture, Artforum, Border Crossings, the New York Times, and is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and in 2019 was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.
Presented in partnership between Pale Fire, Capture Photography Festival and UBC’s Critical Image Forum.
Please note the gallery is wheelchair accessible, but the washroom is not.
