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Exhibition: Los Angeles, Downtown
Date: April 27, 2024
PROJECTING L.A. 2024 was an exhibition of works by photographers based in Los Angeles. The exhibition was presented as a video projection on a huge building facade in Downtown LA. The portfolios of 32 Los Angeles-based photographers were featured.
Photo: © The L.A. Project / Julia Dean
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.
Text/Foto: ©The L.A. Project
