Projecting L.A. 2024 marks the return of the larger-than-life photography event documenting street life throughout Los Angeles

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 2024

Projecting L.A. 2024 marks the return of the larger-than-life photography event documenting street life throughout Los Angeles
The expansive public screening event features the work of 32 acclaimed photographers, including featured guests:
Jeff Bridges, Ringo Chiu, and Los Angeles Times photographers Christina House and Allen J. Schaben

Forever MarilynÓ Installed to Help Business, Marilyn Monroe

Photograph: Amy Gaskin

Los Angeles, CA – 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.

PROJECTING LA 2024 SCREENING PREVIEW HERE

Photograph by Daniel Sackheim, featuring an image in the show by Estevan Oriol

Event Details

Date:
April 27, 2024

Time(s):
Event opens at 6:00 pm. (Come early to meet friends, eat, and get a good seat.)
1st Showing: 7:30 pm
2nd Showing: 8:45 pm

Location:
713 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90012

EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHERS

SPECIAL GUESTS

JURY SELECTIONS

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.

STREET L.A. COLLECTIVE

Wednesday Aja
Julia Dean
Marta Evry
Alon Goldsmith
Gail Just
Mike Lynch
Daniel Sackheim
Joshua Stern

SINGLE IMAGES

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
Vonjako

WATCH A PREVIEW OF PROJECTING L.A. 2024:

About The L.A. Project

Launched in 2021, The L.A. Project is an umbrella for the various opportunities that Director Julia Dean offers to photographers and to the city of Los Angeles. This includes a street photography collective that she co-directs with Daniel Sackheim, called Street L.A., who meet weekly to shoot on the streets of L.A., several street and documentary photography classes for participants of every level, and an extraordinary outdoor projection called Projecting L.A.

The mission of Projecting L.A. is to collaborate with skilled photographers to tell the stories of the streets, to show the images in an innovative way, and to preserve the work through donations to the Los Angeles Public Library.

Website: www.thelaproject.org
Instagram: @projecting_la

About Julia Dean, Director of The L.A. Project

Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, writer, and founder and former executive director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Before her departure in 2021, she led JDPW/LACP for more than 22 years. She is currently the director of The L.A. Project, which is an umbrella for everything she creates and offers, which currently includes a street photography collective called Street L.A., documentary and street photography classes, and a large outdoor event called Projecting L.A.

Collaborative projects with talented photographers are Julia’s passion. In the 1990s, she raised money to send six photographers around the world to document stories about child labor. This work resulted in two trips to the Capitol and a lot of press. Her current collaboration — Projecting L.A. — pulls together L.A. photographers —emerging, and professionals — who are covering stories on the people who make up L.A.

Julia began her career as an apprentice to pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York. She has traveled to more than 45 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. Her extensive teaching experience includes 42 years at various colleges, universities, and educational institutions including the University of Nebraska, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Santa Monica College, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops, Oxford University, The Julia Dean Photo Workshops, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and the Leica Akademie.

For two decades, Julia concentrated on street photography around the world. For the past 13 years, street shooting in downtown Los Angeles has been her primary focus. Julia’s work has been published in many magazines, blogs, and books.

Julia received a Bachelor of Science degree in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska, and is the author/photographer of the award-winning children’s book, A Year on Monhegan Island, published by Houghton Mifflin Co.

Website: www.juliadean.com
Instagram: @juliadean_la_streetshooter