For the last few days I have been thinking of a photography project that I want to do. Well, is might be more aptly named a photo walk. I woke up the other day and had the urge to just go for a walk, not an “around the block walk”, but a, “what if I walked all day” walk. Before long I had the idea to find a nice long street in Los Angeles and walk it from the southern end of the city to the northern edge. The idea is to take copious amounts of photos along the way documenting the vast cultures that the city holds.

When I first moved to LA I lived in the Hollywood area, and was really surprised at the lack of diversity, to me LA just looked like pretty people with pretty things working hard to convince everyone that life in the city is perfect. That is what most people see when they think of Los Angeles. Now that I live more south, south of the 10 freeway I see a vastly different LA, and I like this LA better. Interstate 10, or The 10 if you live in LA was built in the 50’s to act as a barrier and buffer between the white area, north of the 10 and the black area, south of the 10.

I want to walk 10 miles up La Brea, from Inglewood to Hollywood with a hope that I can bring light to both sides of the 10, and really illustrate how culturally diverse, pretty, petty, and how imperfect Los Angeles is.

I hope to do this sometime in early February.

Posted by csbaron on Friday, January 12th, 2007 at 2:41 pm.