This photo essay was produced by Capital & Main, which is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. L.A. Taco is co-publishing this article.
By Ted Soqui
[dropcap size=big]2[/dropcap]020 yielded a collection of photographs that many photojournalists would be satisfied to capture in a career, let alone in one city and year. It was a time of amazing turmoil, sadness, and danger to capture on camera. I generally use wide-angle lenses and tend to work close and capture the emotion of my subjects. COVID-19 changed that. This year I switched over to telephoto lenses and drone photography to create a buffer to avoid contracting the coronavirus or getting attacked during the turmoil. Here is a small selection of images I photographed this year in Los Angeles County.
The month-old strip mall taquería in Anaheim make all their flour tortillas from scratch using both lard and butter, resulting in an extremely tender vehicle for their juicy guisados like carne en su jugo, carne deshebrada, chile colorado, chile relleno, and chicharrón. Every tortilla is cooked to order, too.
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