Venice Beach is the 2nd-largest tourist attraction in Southern California after Disneyland, the birthplace of modern skateboarding, and home to the legendary Z-Boys skateboard team. In capturing the revelations of Venice Beach, Dotan Saguy has created a body of work with unexpected, enthusiastic surprise. His fascination for the colourful, tattooed, costumed community is palpable. Saguy has documented what could be a lost society should the faces you see here be forced to acculturate. Allow yourself to be mesmerised - as Dotan Saguy has been - by this way of life, before it fades away.
About the Author :
Dotan Saguy was born in a small kibbutz five miles south of Israel's Lebanese border. He grew-up in a diverse working class Parisian suburb, lived in Lower Manhattan during 9/11 and moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2015 Dotan decided to focus on his lifelong passion for photography after a successful career as a high-tech entrepreneur. Since then Dotan attended the Eddie Adams Workshop, the Missouri Photo Workshop and studied photojournalism at Santa Monica College. Dotan's award winning photographs have been published by National Geographic, PDN, Leica Fotografie International, ABC News, etc. Most recently, Dotan is a proud laureate of the Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50.
Jamie Rose is an international photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. In her career, she has worked in the Middle East, Africa, South America, Europe and many of the fifty states. She is the CEO of Wildfire Media, a nonprofit organization educating the public through social issue based storytelling.
From the Los Angeles Times, to National Geographic Magazine to Brooks Institute, Gail Fisher's main focus as a senior photo editor, photojournalist, digital journalist, videographer, editor, producer, manager, teacher, has been in-depth story telling for broadcast, internet and social media. In 2015, Fisher started her own business, Gail Fisher Media, photographing projects for editorial, educational, corporate and NGOs, as well as photo editing book projects and portfolios.
