Abraham Torres debuts never-before-seen photographs in

National Geographic’s Documentary “LA92” (see trailer):  

 

Helicopter element used on movie poster

 

LA92 premiere

Historian/documentarian Timothy Goldman, LA92 director Dan Lindsay, and photographer/writer Abraham Torres

Photographer/writer Abraham Torres & historian/documentarian Tim Goldman

 

 

 

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Abraham Torres: The VICE interview by Messiah Rhodes

 

 

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Google Knowledge Panel, 2019

 

RumbleSkout3.com/Ucla Chicano Studies Hunger Strike & Protest

 

Google’s AI independently ranked and indexed the ONLY photo of the legendary Mexican American historical figure, Sal Castro, at this event by placing it as the center photograph on their coveted Knowledge Panel, which showcases the four (4) best images for a given search, indicating a domination of global search results. My photo was showcased for the search query “Ucla Hunger Strike”, even though the image is not tagged with Castro’s name or SEO.

 

 

• Google confirmed the significance of the image when a Ucla professor made the discovery while researching my Collection for his academic PhD thesis, serving as a baseline for an upcoming book.

 

• Through the mystery of Google’s AI and the academic discovery, Sal Castro is finally linked to the 1993 Ucla Hunger Strike and to the historic 1968 East L.A. Walkouts that he helped usher.

 

 

 

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NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, 2018

Interviewed by NHK Television Reporter and Interpreter

 

 

Japan’s national public broadcasting organization sent a television crew from Japan for my on-location interview in South LA and in-home interview regarding my LA Riots Collection and firsthand experience as the only photographer in the world to document the uprising from the ground on the first night.

 

 

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Annenberg Media’s Alana Bracken profiles Abraham Torres’ experience as the only photographer to capture the first night of the 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion. Press play to listen to the vivid NPR-stlye audio interview.

 

Abraham Torres stands in front of some his never-before-seen-photographs at Community Coalition’s exhibit on the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. He was the only photographer on the ground to capture the first night of the rebellion.

 

 

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“LA WEEKLY” declares the Community Coalition “Re-Imagine Justice” exhibit “The Most Powerful Exhibition on the 1992 Los Angeles Riots”. Abraham Torres is the featured photographer.

 

 

 

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Abraham Torres is a featured guest on “Enfoque Latino” on KPFK, 90.7: “The Los Angeles Uprising 25th Anniversary Radio Special” was broadcast across 40 other radio stations (listen here).

 

 

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Channel 35’s Emmy award-winning weekly news program “LA This Week” interviews Abraham Torres about his rare 1992 LA Riots photographs.

 

 

 

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Several images by Abraham Torres from the Community Coalition’s exhibit “Re-imigine Justice” are showcased on NBC4 Television, Los Angeles.

 

 

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Online magazine “LAist” Revisits the Chaos of The 1992 Riots At This Haunting South L.A. Art Exhibit, with featured photographer Abraham Torres.

 

 

 

 

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The CNN Latino interview, June 2020

 

Bilingual Spanish video interview comparing the 2020 LA Protests vs. the 1992 LA Riots and how Latinos have been impacted by both seismic events, which had similar and different impacts on the Latino experience, and I’ve fully covered both events, bookending my LA social activism experience.

 

 

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Fox 11 Los Angeles KTTV,  interviewed by Hal Eisner, May 2020

 

Interviewed for segment “Remembering the LA Riots”. Aired on local and national Fox stations, comparing the 2020 BLM/George Floyd Protests in LA to the 1992 LA Riots, of which there is no comparison.

 

 

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“Monthly Photography Magazine of South Korea” interviewed by publication’s journalist for the April 2019 edition

 

I was asked about my first-person experience as a photographer in the 1992 LA Riots, and how my point of view was different from the mainstream media’s portrayal of the event for the article “1992 Los Angeles Riots Historical Perspective”. My interview included eight (8) images from my LA Riots Collection, which were published in a 4-page spread as part of a historical showcase of life in 1990s Los Angeles. The 1966 publication firmly cemented me as a published International Fine Art Photographer, as the magazine is the oldest, most esteemed, leading photography magazine in South Korea with a subscriber list that is a who’s who of photographers, artists, curators, museum directors, art critics and art educators.

 

 

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Presented my “1993 UCLA Hunger Strike Fine Art Collection” at the Symposium Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the 1993 Sit-in and Hunger Strike for Chicana and Chicano Studies.