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DEVIN BROWNE is a multimedia journalist living in the MacArthur Park/Westlake neighborhood in Los Angeles. Her work has aired on Marketplace, The Environment Report, and KPCC. She has also written for the LA Weekly. Ms. Browne grew up exactly twelve miles from MacArthur Park with her six brothers and sisters, and moved to the neighborhood in early 2008 to teach first grade at a local public school. |
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LOUISE BAKER is a photographer and animator based in Los Angeles. Specializing in animated storyboards and sequence design, she’s worked on the films Salt, I Am Legend, Charlotte’s Web, and Transformers, and done the visual effects for commercials and music videos including the pop-up book video Clumsy, starring Fergie. Ms. Baker and Ms. Browne are both alumni of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, in Portland, ME, but they actually met in MacArthur Park, over tamales. |
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ANNA BOSCH is a founding member of RuidoPhoto, a photojournalist’s collective based in Barcelona. For the last five years, she’s worked for both Spanish and Central American media outlets photographing day laborers, drag queens, and foundries on the verge of collapse. One of these news outlets, ElFaro.net in San Salvador, sent Ms. Bosch to Los Angeles this past spring to document the Central American experience in LA as they pursue the American dream. Very lucky for MPM, she moved into the same building that Ms. Browne lives in and within a week, they were making Tamales on the Run. Ms. Bosch now studies at The New York Institute of Photography in New York City. MPM misses her. |
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BRITT BROWNE is an American illustrator and printmaker from Los Angeles, California. She is the Founder and Creative Director of The Paper Moon Project. Devin and Britt have been imagining and collaborating together for more than twenty years, since they first moved into summer houses, when they were just ten and four years old, with their other sisters Shannon, Megan, and Kelly and their brothers Brandon and Derek. |
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CARMEN JOHNS is finishing up her high school career at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, also called LACES. She spent her junior year studying in a suburb of Paris and dreams of one day working as a journalist, spending her life traveling and writing about her experiences as she goes. MPM met Carmen, luckily, through her lovely and hilarious mother, Maria. |