03/18/2012 - Los Angeles, California - Joggers hurry up the hill which leads them the Dodger Stadium, the starting point of the L.A Marathon (PHOTO JONATHAN OLIVARES/BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT)
Source: Flickr / jonahphotog“A photographer’s main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.” - Manuel Alvarez Bravo
"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
- Edward Steichen
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”- Paul Strand
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03/18/2012 - Los Angeles, California - On an early Sunday morning, as the sun is rising, student Gerardo Lerena, jogs up a steep uphill in downtown Los Angeles, heading towards the next landmark, Echo Park Lake (PHOTO JONATHAN OLIVARES/BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT)
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02/22/2012 - Los Angeles - A resident of Los Angeles visits a church in Boyle Heights to receive the mark of cross on his forehead—a tradition that dates back to almost eight centuries ago (PHOTO JONATHAN OLIVARES/BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT)
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02/22/2012 – Los Angeles, California - TARDY TRUANCY TICKETS: Roosevelt student Rene Ayala, to the right, wears a prison jumpsuit in front of the City Hall building. According to a Student organizer for the Community Rights Campaign, the prison jumpsuit represents movement by Latino and African-America students that want stop and prevent a school system that sends student to prison by their inability to help students progress. Instead of helping students move forward or establishing a crime-prevention program, the student organizer explained, the school system suspends the students for bad behavior or for school code violation, without really addressing the problem therefore sending them down a ‘prison pipeline’ since their mistakes are not really dealt with.
In the same way truancy tickets used to oppress students since they are unable to pay, and by the time they are 18, their unpaid fines become a warrant to jail, he said. (PHOTO JONATHAN OLIVARES/BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT)
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11/20/11 - Los Angeles, California, Club Nokia. Band: Enter Shikari (PHOTO JONATHAN OLIVARES/PLUGGED IN PROMOTIONS)
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10/22/11 - Los Angeles, California - Jim’s Burger by the corner of Soto st and Whittier (photo Jonathan Olivares)
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