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.
JURY SELECTIONS
Karen Ballard | Venice: Lost in Transition
Jill Connelly | The 6th Street Bridge
Laurie Freitag | The Lost Years
Amy Gaskin | The Legacy of Marilyn Monroe
David Ingraham | Street Photography
Jamie Johnson | Le Petit Cirque Los Angeles
Sarah Reingewirtz | Fentanyl in the Streets
Sarah Reingewirtz | Black Women Turn to Midwives
Richard Smith | Street Photography
David Swanson | Disturbing the Peace (major news in L.A.)
Richard Vogel | Street Photography
Jason Williams | Wrestling Underground
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.
© Cristina Salvador Klenz
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.
