Projecting L.A. 2022

Published in HYPERALLERGIC, November 1, 2022

By Matt Stromberg

LOS ANGELES — On a recent chilly Saturday evening, a parking lot in Los Angeles’s Chinatown was transformed into a makeshift screening room as photographs documenting street life across the vast city were projected onto the rear of a four-story building. With helicopters circling overhead and a light rain falling, the assembled crowd of photographers and photo enthusiasts watched a 45-minute slideshow that jumped from surfers in Venice and the bustle of Union Station to lowrider and motorcycle clubs, the 1992 LA Uprising and the protests of 2020, street vendors, a horse ranch, wildfires, and the unhoused.

Titled Projecting L.A., the program featured the work of 35 street, documentary, news, and student photographers, forming a composite portrait of the city’s dynamic and dense urban fabric.

“This is LA,” Vic Brown, one of the participating photographers, told Hyperallergic. “L.A. has the rap of being glitz and glamor, but this is an innovative attempt at revolutionizing how we see art. What better way to do it than in a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles, the heart of the city?”

PROJECTING L.A. 2022 PHOTOGRAPHERS

Lorenzo Aguilar

Karen Ahrens

Wednesday Aja

Vic Brown

Lauren Casey

Ringo Chiu

Oscar Contreras

Julia Dean

Anduriña Espinoza

Michael Feldman

Alon Goldsmith

Ada Gorn

Gerardo Guillén

Carlos Hernandez

David Ingraham

Jamie Johnson

Gail Just

Josh Karbelnig

Brendan Kennedy

Mike Lynch

Stephanie Mei-Ling

Estevan Oriol

Francine Orr

Frankie Orozco

Matthew Nordman

Daniel Sackheim

Ted Soqui

Joshua Stern

Todd Stern

Ann Toler

Katy Parks Wilson

 Jeffrey Wolin

Carl Young