2024: Year in Photos

The 12 months began as rains poured on Southern California, inflicting huge landslides, and resulted in equally dramatic trend with wildfires ripping all through the Southland.

Genaro Molina documented the top of an period at The Occasions’ Olympic printing plant. After deciding to outsource, the corporate had introduced that the power, as soon as a crown jewel in an enormous media empire, would shut down someday in 2024.

Occasions photographer Robert Gauthier captured all of the commotion behind the scenes of the 2024 Emmys as winners made their manner backstage and presenters waited within the wings. The celebrities mingled, learn their cue playing cards and watched the screens offstage.

The Occasions photograph employees coated the college protests, the place teams of demonstrators clashed at UCLA, considered one of quite a few universities the place college students have erected tents as a part of a wave of protests by college students, school members and staffers demanding an finish to Israel’s actions in Gaza and divestment from companies that promote weapons or providers to the nation. USC entry was additionally restricted to college students, school, employees and registered visitors after greater than every week of protests over the Israel-Hamas warfare.

The sports activities 12 months ended with the Dodgers and the Galaxy each hoisting championship trophies in 2024, marking a 12 months of ups and downs.

We hope you’ll be able to look again on the 12 months’s occasions by means of the lenses of the Los Angeles Occasions’ employees photographers.

Taggers have marked up what seems to be greater than 25 tales of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper that’s been sitting dormant for a number of years. Building on Oceanwide Plaza — a $1-billion, mixed-use retail and luxurious residences mission with three towering, unfinished constructions — stalled in January 2019 after its Beijing-based developer lacked the funds to finish it.

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A pressman picks up stray newspapers from a conveyor belt on the Olympic Printing Plant in Los Angeles on Feb. 15.

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The calm waters of Manly Lake in Badwater Basin on the morning of Feb. 26.

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San Quentin SkunkWorks, a nonprofit made up of inmates and jail reform advocates, holds a chess tournamenton March 5.

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John Cena waits backstage throughout the the 96th Annual Academy Awards in in Hollywood on March 10. The practically nude actor {and professional} wrestler was making ready for a comic book homage to a streaker who ran throughout the stage throughout the 1974 Oscars ceremony. Cena introduced the award for costume design.

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A surfer heads out to surf because the morning solar creates shadows close to the pier in San Clemente on March 11.

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Automobiles are escorted by means of a closed part of Freeway 1 after the street slipped out south of the Rocky Creek Bridge on April 2 in Massive Sur, Calif.

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A pedestrian walks previous Walt Disney Live performance Corridor in Los Angeles on April 6.

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A whole bunch of asylum seekers await interviews with U.S. Customs brokers on the San Ysidro Border Crossing on April 25.

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Emory Douglas, seize and rescue specialist with the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Middle, rescues a dying Brown pelican on the Balboa Pier in Newport Seashore on Could 8.

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Climber Jonathan wears belay glasses, which give climbers a 90-degree view with out craning their neck, at Robbers Roost, a world-class mountain climbing vacation spot close to Las Vegas on Could 13.

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Jessie Ortiz practices his roping expertise within the yard of his household’s house in unincorporated Bloomington, in San Bernardino County. Ortiz has helped arrange ‘cabalgatas,’ or conventional horesback rides that commemorate the charro cowboy way of life.

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Scores of legislation enforcement personnel from numerous businesses transfer tons of of demonstrating college students, school and supporters protesting the therapy of Palestinians and the UC system’s investments in Israeli pursuits on Could 15.

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A bunch with The Uncommon Gems Productions participates within the Los Angeles Delight Parade in Hollywood on June 9.

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Grant Wactor, left, joins a June 12 rally to protest the capturing loss of life of his brother Johnny, an actor who was killed after a late-night shift at Degree 8 bar in downtown L.A. Police mentioned Johnny Wactor and his co-worker encountered a crew of individuals attempting steal the catalytic converter from Wactor’s automobile, and considered one of them shot him as he approached. Wactor, 37, starred in “Common Hospital,” the NBC sequence “Siberia” and HBO’s “Westworld.”

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Graduates Grace Shelby Roemer, left, and Guinivere Kimber dance down the aisle throughout UCLA graduation ceremonies.

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Mike Anderson of Las Vegas wears a masks and hat whereas having a drink at The Huntington Home in Huntington Seashore on July Fourth.

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Carli Dugan of San Louis Obispo dances within the water throughout a July Fourth fireworks present in Huntington Seashore.

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The Pacific Park Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier is illuminated with crimson, white and blue.

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Regulation enforcement officers on July 5 examine the scene of a number of stabbings that left two useless at sixteenth Avenue and Pelican Avenue in Huntington Seashore. Violence erupted when a person started attacking July Fourth celebrants the night time earlier than, leaving 4 others hospitalized.

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A viewers member watches the Search immersive present expertise at Cosm on July 18 in Inglewood.

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Former President Trump walks onstage throughout the Republican Nationwide Conference on July 18.

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Donald Trump arrives for day two of the Republican Nationwide Conference at Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee.

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Performers throughout the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France on Aug. 11.

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Vice President Kamala Harris embraces husband Doug Emhoff after she delivered a speech on the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Middle.

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Mary Serritella, 71, performs on the Comedy Pole Present on the Bourbon Room on Sept. 18 in Hollywood.

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Barbie collector Azusa Sakamoto is photographed in West Hollywood on Oct. 15.

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Maristella Burchietti is immersed within the exhibit “BB,” by artist Tadao Cern, on the Balloon Museum’s “Let’s Fly Los Angeles” present on the Ace Mission Studios in Los Angeles on Oct. 30. The museum consists of interactive installations and artworks created by 18 internationally famend artists. It’s open till March 16.

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The Dodgers have fun their World Sequence win, touring in a parade alongside fifth Avenue in double-decker buses in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 1.

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Jenna Fuentes of Harbor Metropolis makes an angel in confetti after the Nov. 1 Dodgers parade.

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A person runs into the water on the Manhattan Seashore Pier as Christmas approaches.

A helicopter drops water on the Franklin fireplace in Malibu on Dec. 10.