October 5 - December 8, 2024
Image: Karen Ballard, Venice: Lost in Transition, 2014.
Glendale Library, Arts & Culture and ReflectSpace are proud to present Projecting L.A. 2024, a unique photographic project that presents an intimate and kaleidoscopic view of Los Angeles, its diverse communities, and unwieldy streets.
The brainchild of Julia Dean—photographer, educator, writer, and founder of the Los Angeles Center of Photography—Projecting L.A. brings together a vast spectrum of photographers to tell the story of Los Angeles through photojournalism, documentary, and street photography. The project cuts across cultural, gender, socio-political, generational, community, and physical boundaries and offers an often chaotic but colorful panorama of our city—as seen through the lens of some of its best image makers.
The photographs in the project are as varied as they are compelling and span an incredible array of Los Angeles sites and stories: from the region’s fentanyl crisis, to Hollywood behind-the-scenes, to a doctor treating COVID-19 patients, to the legacy of Marilyn Monroe, to wild Venice Beach, to underground wrestling, Latino street gangs, a midwife-led delivery unit, and the joys of childhood.
Projecting L.A. 2024 was screened on April 27, 2024, in a one-of-a-kind outdoor projection screening in Chinatown on the side of a three-story building for over 2,000 spectators. The ReflectSpace iteration of Projecting L.A. will present a more intimate indoor experience.
“What better way is there to show off powerful street, documentary, and news stories about Los Angeles and its people than on the street and through projection?” remarked Julia Dean, director of Projecting L.A. “The work is outstanding. Prepare yourself to be inspired.”
The roster of photographers includes Pulitzer Prize winners and 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.
Contemporary photographers in the project: Wednesday Aja, Karen Ballard, Jill Connelly, Julia Dean, Marta Evry, Laurie Freitag, Amy Gaskin, Alon Goldsmith, David Ingraham, Jamie Johnson, Gail Just, Cristina Salvador Klenz, Mike Lynch, Estevan Oriol, Sarah Reingewirtz, Dan Sackheim, Rick Smith, Joshua Stern, David Swanson, Richard Vogel, Jason Williams. Five decades of documentary work by photographers: Richard McCloskey, Don Weinstein, Cristina Salvador Klenz and Robert Yager. Special guests: Jeff Bridges, Susan Bridges, Ringo Chiu, Larry Hirshowitz, Christina House/Los Angeles Times, Estevan Oriol, Francine Orr and Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times.
Projecting L.A. is co-curated by Julia Dean, Daniel Sackheim, and Ara & Anahid Oshagan. It will be on view from October 5 to December 8, 2024, at ReflectSpace, located inside Glendale Central Library at 222 East Harvard, Glendale, CA. An opening reception was held on Friday, October 4, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
This exhibition contains content that explores serious subject matter. Topics might not be suitable for all visitors. Parental and visitor discretion is advised.
Book List
The City of Angels continues to inspire visual storytellers across its expansive regions and communities. Delve deeper into varying perspectives on L.A. history and culture, photo journalism, and street photography with these library selections.
About Julia Dean
Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, writer, founder and former executive director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography for 22 years. She is currently the director of The L.A. Project, a group of street, documentary, and news photographers whose mission is to tell the real story of the streets of 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. For two decades, Julia concentrated on street photography around the world and for the past 14 years, it has been her primary focus in downtown Los Angeles. She created and co-directs (with Daniel Sackheim) a street collective called Street L.A. 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. Julia is currently teaching through the L.A. Project, at Santa Monica College and the Leica Akademie L.A.
About Daniel Sackheim
Daniel Sackheim is an Emmy Award-winning, Film & Television director and producer best known for his work on such critically acclaimed series as HBO’s True Detective Season 3, Game of Thrones, Ozark, and The Americans. A list of partial credits includes the Apple TV+ series Servant, Better Call Saul, Jack Ryan, The Leftovers, The Man in the High Castle, The Walking Dead, and HBO’s acclaimed Lovecraft Country. Sackheim directed the Sony feature film The Glass House, starring Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, and Stellan Skarsgard, and produced The X-Files Feature: Fight the Future for 20th Century Fox.
Dan is a co-founder of Bedrock Entertainment, which produces prestige content for Streamers and premium cable platforms. Dan developed a passion for movies at an early age. An obsession with the genre of Film Noir, continues to influence not only his directorial work, but his photography as well. His project “Slow Kiss” is an homage to the classic Noir films of the fifties, but with a contemporary Neo-Noir esthetic. UNSEEN is a black and white series which explores life in the shadows.
Exhibit-Related Articles:
'Projecting L.A.' photography exhibit opens in Glendale by Hey SoCal (MSN, September 16, 2024)
ReflectSpace Gallery
Glendale Central Library
222 East Harvard Street
Glendale, CA 91205
3 free hours of parking is available with validation at the Marketplace parking structure across the street from the Harvard Street entrance. Accessible parking is available on the east side of the building. View the Visit page for public transit information.
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