DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — LA Souls is a photo exhibition that will be running at Lost Souls Cafe from now until October 15th. The opening reception will be during tomorrow's Downtown Art Walk. It's all about photos of Downtown, so the topic is near and dear to me. From the release:

Downtown newspapers, and now recently community blogs, gather visual documentation of Los Angeles to create an intimate view of Downtown. "LA Souls: Portraits of Los Angeles in its 224th year" is an exhibit that brings photographers who explore Los Angeles on foot and together share images to celebrate a city's 225th birthday. The most photogenic city in the world has photographers living, working or simply shooting Downtown with an intimate POV to form a dialog of people and place. Without exploiting myth, they gathered evidence of a city and by chance present a community as art.

During the opening and closing receptions they'll be projecting random shots from the blogdowntown flickr pool. Ed Fuentes (of View From a Loft) came to me a couple weeks ago and asked if I'd be cool with doing that and I was quick to say yes. I think the pool really reflects the vision of what the show's trying to do and I'm glad to be a part of it.

More from the release after the jump...

LA Souls is a group show that includes Gary Leonard, Daryl Furr, Victor Obeck, Edward Fuentes and Ernie Varela. Opening and closing night will include Eric Richardson of blogdowntown. LA Souls opens at Lost Souls Cafe during the week of Downtown Arts Walk with a drop-in reception Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 6 pm. The show runs until October 15 with a closing reception at Downtown Arts Walk Thursday, October 12, 2006, 6pm. Photographers are invited to sign up to participate in a 30 day downtown street photography "throwdown."

Lost Souls Cafe
124 W. 4th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Between Main and Spring, down "Harlem Alley"

(213.617.7006)