LA Neighborhood Land Trust

I have the opportunity to do some Pro Bono work for Taproot Foundation. A non-profit Marketing group that I've been involved with since September. I joined them to get some new experience in doing graphic arts in the private sector, but my assignments have been photographing various non-profit organizations that have acquired grants from Taproot. One of the organization that I've been working with is the LA Neighborhood Land Trust. This organization provides inner city parks and gardens for the community. To date, they've renovated 8 parks/gardens and have a few more in the works. It's an amazing organization and the people that works for LA Land Trust have been a great group of people to work with.

So far, I've photographed three parks and one community garden. The've done an amazing job in developing or renovating these areas. From an empty lot to a beautiful area for the community to use. The community garden the heart of Korea Town is a gem! Small plots are available for community members interested in planting a garden for their own use and have an opportunity for the community to meet and share ideas with each other. The garden used to be only available to members but has now been made available to the community to use.

Here are just a few photos from the parks and gardens. I should be doing another session with LA  Land Trust in a couple weeks to finish up my project with them. There will also be other opportunity for me to get hired by them to do cover some of their organization events in the future....I hope.