Guadalupe Rosales has an abiding commitment to depicting and documenting her home, East Los Angeles, and the Latinx communities of Southern California. As she has written: “I have been photographing sites primarily in East LA, where I spent most of my teenage years—my neighborhood, the home I grew up in, Whittier Boulevard, alleyways—and the site where the lives of loved ones have been lost. These photographs hold the essence of my own memories here with my friends and family—intimate, warm, haunting and inviting. Most of them were taken while the majority of the city slept. There is an abstract quality of night that is potent with dreams and escape and journey that answers to my desire to not capture the literal events—many violent—of growing up in East LA. The night is where we could feel the complexity of being both free and chased. In this way, nights in East Los Angeles had its own reality. A surreality. Like a waking dream. This work is also about honoring the dead and the living. The process of photographing these locations has not always been easy: It can trigger traumatic memories to surface. But the work guides me through difficult questions that bring me better understandings of my past and my present, as well as offering new revelations.”