A People’s Map: Stories from the East San Gabriel Valley (2018-2019) is a storytelling project that utilizes photography, oral histories, and mapping to explore the rich heritage and identity of Los Angeles County’s East San Gabriel Valley. This is a Fonografia Collective project, commissioned by the LA County Department of Regional Planning and produced in collaboration with LA County Libraries.
As part of this project, we also collaborated with the LA County Library MākMō team to invite community members to come into a couple local libraries (and a local museum) to share their stories of life in the East San Gabriel Valley.
A free newsprint publication was one of the end products of this project, and is available in LA County library branches throughout the East San Gabriel Valley and at all LA County Department of Regional Planning community meetings and events in the region. We also produced a small book version of this publication, and a mobile pop-up exhibit.
