Next Door: Environmental Injustice in Our Neighborhoods, In-Person Exhibition – Opening Reception RSVP

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Join us for the In-Person Opening Reception on Thursday, June 6, 2024, 6-8pm PST @ LACP, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, RSVP Below.

Exhibiting Artists

Black Women Photographers
Tumi Adeleye
Jessica Bethel
Amber Clemons
Amari Dixon
Hanna Leka
Tara Pixley
Nia Symone
Anisa Williams

Da Vinci Communications High multimedia journalism
Arianna Goldfarb
CJ Lucey
Joey Peinado
Mia Rios
Nick Torres
Rogerick Watts
Brian Winbush

DVC Instructor: Adam Watson

AfroLA: Dana Amihere

Project Coordinators

Dana Amihere, Jessica Bethel, Amari Dixon and Tara Pixley

Curator

Tara Pixley – photojournalist, filmmaker and visual media consultant based in Los Angeles, CA

About

The exhibit at the Los Angeles Center for Photography is the culmination of work by Los Angeles-area high school students and professional visual storytellers. AfroLA, a nonprofit news outlet covering L.A. through the lens of the Black community, partnered with Black Women Photographers to produce an immersive art exhibition focused on the intersection of environmental and racial justice.

Pairs of BWP photographers and Da Vinci Communications High School’s multimedia journalism students interviewed residents from predominantly Black and Latine communities, including Inglewood, Leimert Park and Wilmington. They also spoke with community advocates, researchers and experts whose work centers mitigating environmental harms, past and present.

The interviews were produced as “mini-podcasts” by the students that will be accessible at the exhibit via QR codes displayed alongside the artwork. What is it like to live near warehouses that reroute industrial traffic through your neighborhood? What adjustments do residents have to make to deal with contaminated water or poor air quality that results in chronic illness? What’s it like to live next door to an oil field? Attendees will be able to see and hear how residents—especially those in historically-marginalized communities—live day to day.

Back to In-Person Show page HERE.

Tickets

Admission is FREE. Please RSVP below. Suggested Donation HERE

Details

• Date: Thursday, June 6, 2024, 6-8pm PST
• Who: Open to anyone with RSVP
• Cost: FREE
• Location: LACP Headquarters, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
• Parking: Street parking, closest lot: Terasaki Budokan Recreation Center, paid, public parking lot, underground, just across the street from LACP.

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