A free pop up photography festival featuring over 55 installation, Photoville LA, presented by Annenberg Space for Photography, is set up in the grass area behind 2020 Avenue of the Stars in Century City (from Saturday to Monday April 26 to 28, from Thursday May 2 to Sunday to May 5).
I went to check it out today, because I wanted to see more work by Lysney Addario, whom I had featured in my article about an exhibit about Women Photographers.
I also looked at many other exhibits and I was enchanted by the sweet faces of the pitt bulls with flowers garlands on their head.
To counter the bad reputation of pit bulls as ferocious dogs, In 2014 Sophie Gamand started to photograph adoptable pit bulls adorning their head with handmade flower crowns. Posted on social media and published in a book, Pit Bull Flower Power, these photographs helped hundreds of dogs find homes. One of the featured pit bulls is named Blossom, another Frida.
Text and photos by Elisa Leonelli