IMPERIAL COURTS 1993

In 1992, Dana Lixenberg travelled to South Central Los Angeles for a magazine story on the riots that erupted following the verdict in the Rodney King trial. What she encountered inspired her to revisit the area, and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Returning countless times over the following twenty-two years, Lixenberg gradually created a collaborativ e portrait of the changing face of this community. Over the years, some in the community were killed, while others disappeared or we nt to jai...[Read more]