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.
Where and when
Activities begin Saturday, April 27, at 6 p.m. Showings are set for 7:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. Location: 713 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles. Parking is available on Hill Street between Ord and Alpine streets.
