Published on the front page of THE L.A. DAILY NEWS, April 27, 2024
By Marianne Love
In bigger-than-life photographs projected on the side of a building in the heart of Los Angeles’ Chinatown, the works of 32 photographers will be shown on Saturday, April 27, marking the return of a free screening that documents the street life throughout the city and surrounding communities.
Projecting L.A. 2024 debuted two years ago in a one-of-a-kind public photography event that celebrated powerful street, documentary and news stories.
On Saturday, the images will be huge, projected 80-feet wide and three stories high on a building in an outdoor venue for a live audience. The images were made by a range of photographers and were chosen in a juried process.
“What better way is there to show off powerful street, documentary and news stories about Los Angeles and its people than on the street?” said Julia Dean, a photographer and director of Projecting L.A. “The work is outstanding. Prepare yourself for a night of inspiration.”
Projecting L.A. 2024 aims to highlight photojournalists in a way that, two years ago, had never been done in Los Angeles, according to Dean who for two decades concentrated on street photography around the world.
For the past 13 years, her primary focus has been shooting in downtown Los Angeles, and her work has been published in magazines and books, and on websites.
The mission of Projecting L.A. is to collaborate with skilled photographers to tell the stories of the streets in an innovative way, and to preserve the work through donations to the Los Angeles Public Library..
Some of images that will be shown include the Sixth Street Bridge, the region’s fentanyl crisis, Hollywood behind-the-scenes, the legacy of Marilyn Monroe, a midwife-led labor and delivery unit, cruising Van Nuys Boulevard in the 1970s, the Venice barrio in the 1980s and the Armenian diaspora in the early 2000s.
The roster of photographers include Pulitzer Prize winners and other acclaimed photographers from the Associated Press, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Times and Reuters, in addition to war photographers, Emmy Award-winners and other accomplished documentary and street photographers.
The jurors who chose this year’s images included Paris Chong, gallery manager and director at Leica Gallery L.A.; Dean, director of Projecting L.A. and photographer; Calvin Hom, former executive director of photography at Los Angeles Times; Daniel Sackheim, Emmy Award-winning TV director/producer and photographer; and John Simmons, Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and photographer.
Projecting L.A. 2024
Photo by Alon Goldsmith
The L.A. Project Photographers 2024
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 Petite 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
Richard Vogel: Street Photography
Jason Williams: Wrestling Underground
Plus, 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.
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: The Chaplain
Allen J. Schaben: 30 Years of Photography with The L.A. Times
STREET L.A. COLLECTIVE
Wednesday Aja
Julia Dean
Marta Evry
Alon Goldsmith
Ada Gorn
Gail Just
Mike Lynch
Daniel Sackheim
Joshua Stern
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Alexander Seyum
Ambrus Deak
Ann Toler
Carl Young
Danny DeGennaro
Domenico Foschi
Eric Renard
Florian Froschmayer
Glen Wilbert
Jason Williams
John Travis
Juan Fernando Mora
Kei Rowan Young
Ken Karagozian
Lalo Sanchez
Matt Stasi
Melanie Chapman
Oscar Contreras
Poul Lange
Rene Melendrez
Skip McCraw
T. Chick McClure
Timothy Suh
Todd Stern
Vonjako
Yulia Morris
