April 28, 2022

On Crenshaw Boulevard, Swerdlow captured one of the most iconic images of what came to be known as the LA Riots, also known as the 1992 LA uprising or civil unrest, when she captured a raw photograph of an angry six-year-old Reggie Gardner in the backseat of his uncle’s car. “It’s a symbol of some of the hopelessness,” she told CBS news in 1998, “and that if you can’t change a six-year-old kid, you’ve lost the battle. You’ve lost it.”