Eric Garcetti Re-Elected as Los Angeles Mayor

The people of Los Angeles re-elected Eric Garcetti as mayor of Los Angeles.
He won 80% of the vote in the field of ten challengers.

Photo by Ted Soqui © 2017

LA Mayor Garcetti and his daughter Maya at the voting booth

Car Wreck at Getty House

Was driving by the L.A. Mayor's residence, Getty House in Windsor Square, yesterday and saw this car wreck out front. 6th street was shut down for a block due to the accident.
Didn't get any official word on what happened, was on my way to another assignment. Looks like someone ran a red light.
Mayor Garcetti was not involved.

Photos by Ted Soqui © 2014

Getty House with wrecked cars.

Honda Fit wrecked in front of Getty House.

Wrecked mini van on Mayor Eric's lawn.

Getty House Tagged

The Getty House, the official residence for the mayor of Los Angeles, was tagged on the 6th Street side.
Noticed it on my way home this evening. A couple more Windsor Square homes, next to the Getty House, were also tagged with the same markings.

Photo by Ted Soqui © 2014

Getty House view from 6th Street.

Detail of the tagging.

October 8th in LA

October 8th in the City of Angels marked the first 100 days in office for Mayor Garcetti, another lunch on the banks of the LA River for two homeless gentlemen, and a great day to be a dog.

Photos by Ted Soqui © 2013

A heart in the city.

Arts District.

Lunch on the banks of the LA River.

Mouse and her dog.

100 days.

LA Parking Day

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti held meetings with local east side residents on First Street.
His make-shift office, a former parking spot, featured live grass along fancy lamps and seating in the waiting area.
Parking Day is celebrated nation wide and started back in 2005. Several parking spots around the city are turned in to art installations and make-ship rest areas.

Photo by Ted Soqui © 2013

LA Mayor Garcetti meeting with East Los residents.

Villaraigosa Concourse Opens at LAX

The new $1.9 billion dollar Villaraigosa concourse at LAX opened today.
A giant Airbus A380 broke through a banner to celebrate the opening. The new concourse features new luxury shopping and dinning for international travelers at the Tom Bradley International Terminal.
Construction continues at LAX to improve the airport and is expected to cost $4.1 billion dollars and take 5 years to complete.
This is also the largest public works in LA's history.


Photos by Ted Soqui © 2013

First A380 at the new concourse.

Former and present mayor's of Los Angeles

Luxury shopping at LAX

Villaraigosa concourse at LAX.

Mayor Garcetti speaking with travelers.

Mayoral Inaugural for Eric Garcetti

LA welcomes it's 42nd Mayor, Eric Garcetti, today. In a short but fun ceremony, Moby performed an original song, "We Are All Made of Stars."
The oath was delivered by a LA Student in the eight grade, Kenia Castillo, who Garcetti met when she 4 years old at a rally for better working conditions for janitors.
The new members of the LA City Council were also swore in and had a group hug afterwards.

Photos by Ted Soqui © 2013

Our new Mayor.

Moby snapping photos.

Last Tweet as Mayor of LA.

LA Councilman Tom LaBonge and Gil Garcetti taking a photo.

City Hall.

Graham Patrick Martin and Raymond Cruz from "Major Crimes."

Eric Garcetti Wins Mayor's Race

Eric Garcetti celebrated his victory over Wendy Greuel for Mayor of Los Angeles. Mr. Garcetti was surrounded by his family and supporters on the stage at the Hollywood Palladium while he gave his victory speech at around 11:40pm.

Photos by Ted Soqui © 2013

Mayor elect Eric Garcetti.

Victory speech.

Mayor watchers.

Mayor elect Garcetti with supporters.

Eric Garcetti's Final Push

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti spent the afternoon campaigning in Boyle Heights. Several area politicians marched around the neighborhood with Mr. Garcetti, the march ended with ice cream served at near a neighborhood church.

Photos by Ted Soqui © 2013

Candidate Garcetti.

Walking through la barrio.

1st street.

Eric Garcetti and Our Lady Guadalupe.

Helping out the locals with car repair advice.

Mayoral Candidates Go Below the 10

Both candidates for Mayor of L.A. finally go below the 10 freeway in search of support for their quest. Wendy Greuel reached out to Magic Johnson, and Eric Garcetti got the nod from Bernie Parks and Jan Perry.

Photos by Ted Soqui © 2013

This Week in Los Angeles City Beat 12-20-07

This week in LA City Beat. They ran a nice portrait of LA City Councilman Eric Garcetti of the 13th District taken by me back in 2004. I photographed him in the main hallway on the first floor of historic LA City Hall.

They wrote about how nice of a guy he is. He really is a nice guy and a pleasure to photograph.

Photograph by Ted Soqui c 2007