Las Fotos Project Experimental Photography Zine - Volume 1: Koreatown

Over the summer of 2012, Las Fotos Project, in partnership with Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC), facilitated an intensive 5-day experimental photography program with eleven girls from Koreatown and surrounding neighborhoods.

Participants, girls ages 14-18, learned about alternative processing techniques, combination printing, extreme exposures, and unusual filters.

Students used digital, 35mm film, polaroid and experimental cameras such as fish eye lenses and multiple lens cameras to document the Koreatown community and their lives in their respective neighborhoods. They explored concepts such as self-perception, emotion, and identity while creating collages and art pieces which reflected these themes.

The group worked together to create this zine which showcases their photographs and mixed media collages, as well as their self-expressive words describing their creative process and their final works.