Taste China Photo Exhibition Opens at UCLA on November 19: Five Photographers Document 13 Chinese Restaurants Across Southern California, on View Through December 9
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County — A new photography exhibition, Taste China, will open at the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library on November 19, highlighting the work of five members of the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles. The exhibition is presented by the Chinese Culture Development Center and co-hosted by the UCLA East Asian Library and the UCLA Asia Pacific Center.
An opening celebration will take place on Thursday, November 19, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Main Conference Room of the Charles E. Young Research Library, 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90095. The exhibition will run from November 19 to December 9 in the East Asian Library Reading Room, on the second floor of the library.
The opening event features a special roundtable of restaurant owners, photographers and scholars, focusing on the culinary stories of 13 Chinese restaurants across Southern California.
The latest installment of the Taste China photography project, titled Visual Stories of Chinese Restaurants in Southern California, turns its gaze closer to home and celebrates the richness of Chinese culinary life within local communities.
From October to December 2025, five nationally celebrated photographers — Nick Ut, Ringo Chiu, Irfan Khan, Michael Nelson and Sarah Reingewirtz — visited 13 Chinese restaurants across the Southland, documenting not only culinary excellence but also the personal histories and cultural legacies embedded within these spaces.
The exhibition announcement was published by the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles on November 6.
Source: Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：从南侧航拍的 UCLA 校园与 Westwood 一带。来源：Alfred Twu, CC0，维基共享资源。 / Photo: UCLA campus and Westwood seen from the south. Credit: Alfred Twu, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
