Projecting L.A. 2024 marks the return of the larger-than-life photography event documenting street life throughout Los Angeles

April 27, 2024 - 713 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90012

Projecting LA 2024 features 33 renowned photographers documenting life in LA with notable guest photographers like: actor, musician and photographer Jeff Bridges, Pulitzer Prize Winner Ringo Chiu, and L.A.Times Pulitzer Prize Winner Christina House, to name a few.

After its acclaimed debut two years ago, The L.A. Project returns with the next iteration of its one-of-a-kind public photography event, Projecting L.A. 2024, on April 27, 2024, in DTLA. Projecting L.A. 2024 features the work of 32 renowned photographers to celebrate the powerful street, documentary and news stories about the city of Los Angeles and its communities.

Projecting L.A. 2024 is a larger-than-life public screening projected 80-feet wide and three stories high above an expansive outdoor venue in the heart of L.A.’s historic Chinatown. The screening includes work from a range of photographers following a juried process as well as featured guests, including actor, musician and photographer Jeff Bridges, Pulitzer Prize Winner Ringo Chiu, and L.A.Times Pulitzer Prize Winner Christina House. Projecting L.A. 2024’s roster of photographers range from Pulitzer Prize winners, acclaimed photographers from The Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Los Angeles Daily News, war photographers, Emmy Award-winners, and many more accomplished documentary and street photographers.

The wide-sweeping scope of Projecting L.A. 2024’s diverse stories encapsulate the multilayered fabric that binds Los Angeles, its history and its communities. These projects include: the Sixth Street Bridge, Hollywood behind-the-scenes, the legacy of Marilyn Monroe, the fentanyl crisis, a midwife-led labor and delivery unit, cruising Van Nuys Boulevard in the 1970s, the Venice barrio in the 1980s, the Armenian diaspora in the early 2000s, and many others.

For Projecting L.A.’s jury selections, the jurors include: Calvin Hom, former executive director of photography at the L.A. Times, Paris Chong, gallery manager and director at Leica Gallery L.A., Daniel Sackheim, Emmy Award-winning TV director/producer and photographer, John Simmons, Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and photographer, and Director of Projecting L.A. and photographer Julia Dean.

EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHERS
SPECIAL GUESTS
Jeff Bridges | Behind the Scenes in Hollywood
Susan Bridges | Venice Barrio in the Eighties
Ringo Chiu | Daily News in L.A.
Larry Hirshowitz | Personal Portraits at KCRW
Christina House | Hollywood’s Finest
Estevan Oriol | On the Streets
Francine Orr | Sacred Ground
Allen J. Schaben | Daily News in L.A.

5 DECADES OF DOCS
Richard McCloskey | 1972, Cruising on Van Nuys Blvd.
Don Weinstein | 1988, Runaway Teenagers in Hollywood
Cristina Salvador Klenz | 1990-1993; 2003, Life with California’s Roma Families
Robert Yager | 1992-2002, Streetwise
Ara Oshagan | 2000-2008, Traces of Identity:The Armenian Diaspora in L.A.

STREET L.A. COLLECTIVE
Wednesday Aja
Julia Dean
Marta Evry
Alon Goldsmith
Gail Just
Mike Lynch
Daniel Sackheim
Joshua Stern

SINGLE IMAGES
Melanie Chapman, Oscar Contrera, Ambrus Deak, Danny DeGennaro, Domenico Foschi, Florian Froschmayer, Ada Gorn, Ken Karagozian, Poul Lange, T. Chick McClure, Skip McCraw, Rene Melendrez, Juan Fernando Mora, Yulia Morris, Eric Renard, Lalo Sanchez, Alexander Seyum, Matt Stasi, Todd Stern, Timothy Suh, Ann Toler, John Travis, Glen Wilbert, Jason Williams, Carl Young, Kei Rowan-Young, Vonjako

About The L.A. Project
Launched in 2021, The L.A. Project is an umbrella for the various opportunities that Director Julia Dean offers to photographers and to the city of Los Angeles. This includes a street photography collective that she co-directs with Daniel Sackheim, called Street L.A., who meet weekly to shoot on the streets of L.A., several street and documentary photography classes for participants of every level, and an extraordinary outdoor projection called Projecting L.A.

The mission of Projecting L.A. is to collaborate with skilled photographers to tell the stories of the streets, to show the images in an innovative way, and to preserve the work through donations to the Los Angeles Public Library.

www.thelaproject.org
@projecting_la

About Julia Dean, Director of The L.A. Project
Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, writer, and founder and former executive director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Before her departure in 2021, she led JDPW/LACP for more than 22 years. She is currently the director of The L.A. Project, which is an umbrella for everything she creates and offers, which currently includes a street photography collective called Street L.A., documentary and street photography classes, and a large outdoor event called Projecting L.A.

Collaborative projects with talented photographers are Julia’s passion. In the 1990s, she raised money to send six photographers around the world to document stories about child labor. This work resulted in two trips to the Capitol and a lot of press. Her current collaboration — Projecting L.A. — pulls together L.A. photographers —emerging, and professionals — who are covering stories on the people who make up L.A.

Julia began her career as an apprentice to pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York. She has traveled to more than 45 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. Her extensive teaching experience includes 42 years at various colleges, universities, and educational institutions including the University of Nebraska, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Santa Monica College, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops, Oxford University, The Julia Dean Photo Workshops, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and the Leica Akademie.

For two decades, Julia concentrated on street photography around the world. For the past 13 years, street shooting in downtown Los Angeles has been her primary focus. Julia’s work has been published in many magazines, blogs, and books.

Julia received a Bachelor of Science degree in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska, and is the author/photographer of the award-winning children’s book, A Year on Monhegan Island, published by Houghton Mifflin Co.

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

2024 | 184 pages

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

With texts from Richie Blink, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jessica Dandridge, Rebecca Elliott, Michael Esealuka, T. Mayheart Dardar, Billy Fleming, Andy Horowitz, Arthur Johnson, Louis Michot, Nini Nguyen, Kate Orff, Jessi Parfait, Amy Stelly, Jonathan Tate, Aaron Turner, and John Verdin.

Rawsht Twana: Twana’s Box

By Rawsht Twana

Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

2024 | 252 pages

Twana’s Box' can be described in many ways: a journey through a photographer’s rare archive, documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq from 1974–1992; a son’s quest to find his lost father, who was murdered by a military regime; a young man’s way to piece together the fragments of a scattered family in a scattered culture; the becoming of a photographer who, through the stories of others, starts to understand his own identity in times of war. 'Twana’s Box' is not only the photo book that holds a selection of Twana Abdullah’s archive; it is a unique insight into a time and place in a region that has since completely transformed. Rawsht has spent years piecing together his father’s negatives and stories. His archival work inspired him to become a photographer himself, working for Metrography – the first independent Iraqi photo agency – before immigrating to Europe. ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Kurdish/Arabic/English

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

Taken across Europe and Africa, Akinbiyi’s images of everyday city life muse on the sociopolitical labyrinths of urban society

Whether in Bamako, Berlin, London, Lagos or Durban, British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi (born 1946) creates black-and-white street scenes that function as visual metaphors, ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion and colonialism’s effect on urban planning.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2024 | 184 pages

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer
This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm―Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, is an artist’s book created by the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression.” Through an extraordinary selection of nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection and archives, this unique volume draws multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations, and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores and films by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Ming Smith, among others, are juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner―Spirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonner’s own vibrant, virtuosic designs.

Projecting L.A. 2024 marks the return of the larger-than-life photography event documenting street life throughout Los Angeles

April 27, 2024 - 713 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90012

Projecting LA 2024 features 33 renowned photographers documenting life in LA with notable guest photographers like: actor, musician and photographer Jeff Bridges, Pulitzer Prize Winner Ringo Chiu, and L.A.Times Pulitzer Prize Winner Christina House, to name a few.

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