235 Broadway

235 Broadway by Elliott Grogan Downtown Los Angeles, 2022 I took this photograph while walking with my family through Downtown Los Angeles. We were heading down Broadway to go to Grand Park for an Easter celebration when I spotted this collage on a boarded up window. When you take the images from the advertisements as a composition in itself, you see a black woman tearing her way through to be seen, and next to her are the words “role model”. When you take away the connection to the artist and model in the advertisements, we are left with a symbol for where we are as a society. Over the last two years, women of color have done the work to tear through the layers that would cover t...View all