Public Project
LAPD 1994
LAPD 1994 joins a body of work representing the city of Los Angeles to itself, its images part of a movement of creative self-expression among working class communities of color that had many precursors but crystallized in the 1990s – the moment in which South Central and East L.A., queer L.A., even homeless L.A. started telling their own stories.
Immersing you in the 1990s is essential because photography, after all, is about time – the moment the frame captures and the past and future it alludes to. It also is about place. Joseph’s images produce an overwhelming sense-memory for me: I survived and, honestly, thrived in that time and in that place, Our Lady Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula.
-Rubén Martínez, Journalist and writer
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