L.A. TACO and LOMOGRAPHY are pleased to present the return of the TACO de LOMOGRAPHY series, wherein some of our favorite photographers take a Lomography LC-A camera out into the wilds of Los Angeles to capture the Taco Lifestyle on film. The series returns with photographer, curator, and West Coast director of Arrested Motion, Khoi Ich Nguyen.
This is Los Angeles; This is Southern California; This is Nguyen's loving portrait of the people and places that make our shared home so entrancing.
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Antojitos get the wild game and Indigenous protein treatment at Sage Vegan Bistro in Echo Park, but are they intriguing enough to lure you away the chile colorado at El Ruso across the street?
The pork is marinaded in a secret recipe for ten hours and roasted for four hours until it falls apart. They top it with crumbled chicharrón that they puff up themselves, a habanero salsa, and taquería guacamole. They just started offering an outstanding suadero that is confit in beef tallow, longaniza drippings, and lard until it gently crisps up like a beef version of carnitas.
L.A.’s taco life lost one of its most beloved personalities, Jose “Chuy” Tovar, who died in a car accident at 55 on Monday afternoon. A GoFundMe has been set up by his family.
"The amount of people visiting Disneyland today matches the death toll in Gaza," said one of the signs. The peaceful protest organizers held it in front of the theme park to also bring attention to Disney's $2 million donation to organizations providing humanitarian aid to Israel.
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