Chanchanit Martorell

Chanchanit Martorell is the executive director of the Thai Community Development Center (CDC), which led the successful campaign to designate a section of East Hollywood as "Thai Town," the only municipally recognized Thai district in the nation. Beatrice Morlan also works with Thai CDC as an show more urban-planning student from the University of Southern California. These evocative photographs were collated from the collections of the Thai CDC and other Thai organizations and from throughout the Los Angeles Thai community. show less