-Alice Tabuchi and I collaborated with JOAN, the ICA-LA to help fund-raise and bring awareness for Downtown Women’s Center for the 2020 holiday season. The DWC is the only organization in LA focused exclusively on serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness and formerly homeless women. Handmade ornament produced by LA based artist Seth Bogart. 100% of the donations go to the DWC and can be made on their website at www.DowntownWomensCenter.orghttps://joanlosangeles.org/https://www.theicala.org/en
-All Vans work is in collaboration with Alice Tabuchi… “Play-Time”
-Going Trans for Good Magazine- “There is also the obvious component of transparency—an entirely transgender roster can help eliminate last-minute dismissals, something that one of Slay’s newest models recently experienced just moments before a runway show.”-Cecilio Asuncion. To read more of the interview by Rachel Ellison check out the article… http://magazine.good.is/features/meet-cecilio-asuncion-slay-model-management
-Boyle Heights- In the summer of 2014 my partner (Dave Koga) and I were commissioned by the California Endowment to document the many programs that they continue to support in the city of Boyle Heights. The many programs that we documented are listed bellow.
-A Deeper Vision- Bodyboarding is a sport that has developed and grown with little or no attention. This body of work is meant to show the people and the community from the inside out. Majority of the images were constructed while spending a whole day with a wide range of riders from expert/legends to amature/unknowns. These riders work hard in order to be there at the right time and place when all the elements align.