Awards:
Pulitzer Prize; for Best Spot News 1992: Part of The Los Angeles Times photographic team that covered
the 1992 Los Angeles riots. One of Roth's images appeared as the lead photo on a 5-part special section
produced by the paper that addressed the causes and impact of the riots on the city.

International Photographer’s Association:
Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography, 2003

Prints in Public Collections:
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France
Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles
The Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
Lentz Center for Asian Culture, Lincoln, Nebraska

Prints in Private Collections:
Marsha and Vern Bohr, Pasadena, CA
Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles
Steve and Maya Richards, Los Angeles
Stephen and Mus White, Los Angeles
Marjorie and Len Vernon, Los Angeles

Gallery Representation:
sepia EYE - Esa Epstein
P.O. Box 2288
New York, NY 10008
917-445-4571
www.sepiaeye.com

Solo Exhibitions:
"Srebrenica: Then is Now" 15 Years After the Massacre, Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, CA
July 9 – August 3, 2010

"In Hollywood" and "Downtown Los Angeles: Inside/Out" City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, Public Art Division, Terminal 1, Los Angeles International Airport, January 16 - May 29, 2009.

“An Evening with Marissa Roth: Book Signing and Photography Exhibition"
December 1, 2007 - March 30, 2008
Book Alley, Pasadena, CA

"Witness to Truth", Permanent Exhibition, Opened September 18, 2005
Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles

“Caught in the Crossfire: Women and War”, October 18, 2001-December 6, 2001
Weathervane, Santa Monica

“Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out”, August 25-September 15, 2000
Dawson’s Gallery, Los Angeles

“Inside/Out: Downtown Los Angeles”, July 1-September 24, 2000
Project commissioned by the Los Angeles Public Library; exhibited at the Central Library

“Burning Heart, A Portrait of the Philippines”, November 2-December 19, 1999
Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College Claremont, CA

“Burning Heart, A Portrait of the Philippines”, May 13-August 13, 1999
Sepia International, The Alkazi Collection New York, NY

“The Children Wear Old Eyes”, A Philippine Portrait, April 8 - July 1, 1994
Lentz Center for Asian Culture University of Nebraska, Lincoln

“Hollywood”, September 1 - November 30, 1984
Center for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design Detroit, MI

Group Exhibitions:

“Indomitable Spirit” November 13, 2008
Photography Auction Benefit for Starlight Children’s Foundation
Exhibition Co-chair with Douglas Kirkland
Ace Gallery  Los Angeles

“Earth & Time: Nature Studies by Four”, October 27 - November 25, 2007
Remy’s on Temple   Los Angeles

“Through the Looking Glass: Documentary Photography of the Philippines”, March 1-31, 2007
Remy’s on Temple   Los Angeles

“16th Annual Center Awards”, October 27 - December 1, 2006
Center for Photographic Art   Carmel, CA

“A Sense of Place”, January 21-March 3, 2000
Center for Photographic Art Carmel, CA

“Captured”, MOCA Underground, September 27, 1997
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles

“Photography Los Angeles Now”, August 5 - 28, 1995
Unity Arts Center/Spring Street Gallery Los Angeles

“24 Hours in the Life of Los Angeles”, June 1 - August 30, 1984
LAPA Gallery Los Angeles

Teaching:
Roth has been a guest lecturer at numerous academic institutions and currently teaches at
UCLA Extension, a Master Class, “Creating Picture Essays”.

Travels:
Asia, South Asia and the Pacific: Philippines, Thailand, Japan, South Korea,
China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Tahiti, India,
Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka

Africa: Egypt, Madagascar, South Africa, Mauritius, Morocco

Europe: Germany, Northern Ireland, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria,
Hungary, Yugoslavia, Albania, The Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Poland

Others: Russia, Ukraine, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Israel, Canada

Languages:
Communicable Spoken French and a smattering of Spanish and Hungarian