Tabitha Soren’s ‘Fantasy Life’ Photo Exhibition Opening in L.A.

Tabitha Soren might know a thing or two about living a fantasy life. She once held the gaze of millions of viewers at MTV News, appeared in a Gap ad and married a best-selling author, yet it was only when she stepped from in front of the camera to behind one that she began to grasp the potential for not only her own life, but most of America’s. In her photography exhibition titled “Fantasy Life” that opens Saturday at Los Angeles’ Kopeikin Gallery, Soren uses baseball as a metaphor for the uniquely American concept of Manifest Destiny, which, in her words, “propels us all to feel like we need to do something extraordinary.” She started by taking pictures of the Oakland Athletics’ draft class in 2003 and tracking their successes and failures through the years. (Three still play on Major League Baseball teams, another is homeless and the rest have found new livelihoods in coaching, stonemasonry, coal mining, wineries and insurance.) She even forced them to swap their Nike and Under Armour-branded clothes for plain white tank tops so her photos wouldn’t look cluttered. When boredom in the dugout moved her to experiment with taking an abstract image of bugs and

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