Projecting L.A. 2024 marks the return of the larger-than-life photography event documenting street life throughout Los Angeles.
Projecting L.A. 2024 is a 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.
Exhibiting photographers included: special guests Jeff Bridges, Susan Geston Bridges, Ringo Chiu, Larry Hirshowitz, Christina House, Estevan Oriol, Francine Orr, and Allen J. Schaben; jury selections from Karen Ballard, Jill Connelly, Laurie Freitag, Amy Gaskin, David Ingraham, Jamie Johnson, Sarah Reingewirtz, Richard Smith, David Swanson, Richard Vogel, and Jason Williams; “5 Decades of Docs” from Richard McCloskey, Don Weinstein, Cristina Salvador Klenz, Robert Yager, and Ara Oshagan; the Street L.A. Collective with work by Wednesday Aja, Julia Dean, Marta Evry, Alon Goldsmith, Gail Just, Mike Lynch, Daniel Sackheim, Joshua Stern; and single images by 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, and Vonjako.
Projecting L.A. 2024 event took place on April 27th at 713 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90012.
