(top) Guest admire the photographs at Santa Monica College’s Emeritus Gallery on Thursday January 22, 2009, during the opening reception for "Gil Garcetti 2nd Act.” (above) Santa Monica College Emeritus Associate Dean, Maggie Hall (right) listens as Gil Garcetti (left) explains to  guests that he has been a photographer longer than  an attorney. Gil Garcetti spent 32 years in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, including eight years as the elected District Attorney managing the largest local prosecutorial office in the United States. Since leaving that office in 2000, he has found his passion in life with photography, particularly urban photography. Garcetti has produced five photographic books, including a couple on the Walt Disney Concert Hall that have received wide critical acclaim. He has had several solo exhibitions at galleries, museums and other institutions across the country and abroad.