Susan Spiritus

Susan Spiritus

Susan Spiritus Gallery / Director

Susan Spiritus has been a leader in the field of fine art photography for 39 years, opening the doors to her Southern California gallery in 1976 so that she could share her passion for photography with others.

Today, the gallery handles works by such photographic luminaries as Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Eikoh Hosoe, André Kertész, Paul Caponigro, Brett Weston and George Tice.

Also represented are many of today’s most popular and award-winning contemporary artists including Camille Seaman, Hiroshi Watanabe, Cara Barer, Fran Forman, David Burdeny, Roman Loranc and Adrian Roland Davisin addition to several emerging artists, Tami Bone, Mitchell Hartman, Ellen Jantzen, Deborah Parkin, Tim Hyde and Chris Kovacs from Vancouver, BC .

The gallery regularly works with new artists from overseas.  Besides Seung Hoon Park (South Korea), Deborah Parkin (UK) and William Furniss (Hong Kong), we have recently begun to represent Hengki Koentjoro http://susanspiritusgallery.com/artist/hengki-koentjoro/ from Jakarta, Indonesia and Ellie Davies from the UK.

Most recently we have added representation of the following artist’s works: Natalie Christensen from Santa Fe, New Mexico; , Gillian Hyland from the UK and Niv Rozenberg originally from Isreal, now living in Brooklyn, NY.

We also have a robust collection of work by artists from Iran, including Eikoh Hosoe, Celine Wu and Yoichi Nagata. The newest addition to the gallery is Ryota Kajita, aka Kanji.

Current Jury

Past Jury

Patrick Brzeski

Patrick Brzeski People Magazine

Kathleen Clark

Kathleen Clark

Natasha Egan

Natasha Egan Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago

Koji Orimoto

Koji Orimoto Digital Camera Watch

Tatiana Kurtanova

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Robert Berman

Robert Berman Berman Gallery