When we would set up the interview time, I inquired whether they had any old photos I could see and if they would let me scan them. I spent over a hundred hours driving all over Los Angeles County recording oral histories of the elder lowriders, people who were the pioneers of this movement. While publishers urged me to have a prestigious academic or an art-world celebrity write my book essay, I knew that the only text I wanted in the book were the voices of the lowriders. How did I come to have this large collection of archival lowrider photos? For the last five years I have been working on a photography book, Cruise Night, about the Mexican American lowrider community in Los Angeles. Memories are powerful especially when we are limited in what we can currently do. I decided to explore these images and begin an Instagram project where I post a couple photographs each day.
Over the last five years I have collected archival photos, ranging from the 1940s to 1980s, of Mexican American lowriders in Los Angeles. When Mayor Garcetti instituted a stay-at-home order in Los Angeles I thought about what a safe COVID-19 photography project would look like. Duke Initiatives in Theology & the Arts.Duke Entertainment, Media & Arts Network.Leadership and Arts Policy Internship Grants.Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture.MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts.MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis.PhD/MA in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures.
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