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Venice Beach:
The Last Days of a Bohemian Paradise

© Dotan Saguy
Venice Beach is the 2nd largest tourist attraction in Southern California after Disneyland, and like many other cultural landmarks it’s currently under attack by accelerating gentrification and corporate appropriation of its cultural wealth. Los Angeles based photographer Dotan Saguy felt an urgency to document this historic beach, and in the past three years has spend hundreds of hours capturing raw, candid moments that are unique to the human landscape of this last bastion of unadulterated freedom.

“Dotan photographs Venice Beach like an archeologist and historian, understanding the complexity of  gentrification and change, while  celebrating the spectacular Venice Beach tableaux of unfiltered behaviors. Dotan’s photographs  reveal layered seeing, curiosity  and compassion, and split-second instincts that result in a visual  feast leaving us hungry for more.”
-Aline Smithson, Founder of Lenscratch
Venice Beach features a selection of 45 black and white photographs from this project. Through these energetic and dramatic images Saguy shares his fascination for this eccentric, colorful, tattooed, costumed community, unabashedly paying homage to the regulars who populate the sands of Venice.
 
The photobook Venice Beach published by Kehrer Verlag received international acclaim and is available here
Dotan Saguy is available for lectures and workshops.

Number of photographs: 45
Rental fee: $4500

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