East LA Archives

Guadalupe Rosales: Building Community Through Archives of Southern California’s Latinx Subcultures

Alex KhatchadourianJune 21, 2018

Guadalupe Rosales's Instagram accounts, @Veteranas_and_Rucas and @Map_Pointz, both archive important but previously inaccessible material of an underrepresented and unstudied group of people.

“Varrio”: Gusmano Cesaretti Takes Us Back To 1970s East LA

amadeusmagDecember 22, 2017

In the early 1970s, Gusmano Cesaretti began to explore the Latino neighborhood of East L.A., photographing the people he met and the graffiti that decorated the buildings.

In the Streets with Valerie J. Bower

Alex KhatchadourianApril 22, 2016

Over the last two years photographer Valerie J. Bower has documented lowrider culture. For issue 08 we spent a warm Sunday afternoon with her as she shot the Watts Life Car Club Picnic.