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It Was a Good Day

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Untitled Collection #252906009

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@EveLittleShell https://www.evelaurynlafountain.com "It Was a Good Day" by Eve-Lauryn LaFountain October 10, 2021 was my wedding day. We almost eloped on a pyramid in Belize a few months after getting engaged in 2018, but decided we wanted to be surrounded by our loved ones. Once we found the perfect venue we settled on October 11, 2020. But weddings like the one we wanted didn't happen in 2020. We had to postpone again because of Covid-19 and waited yet another year. I dreamed of pulling up to the venue in a lowrider. My mother-in-law found the perfect one and we were driven to the wedding through the streets of downtown Los Angeles in this cherry red 1964 Impala with hydraulics, and Aztec warriors etched into the window glass. We took photos with the car by the LA River behind the Pato Sauce factory. My husband cried, saying he wished he could tell his past self as a little kid that he'd take wedding pictures there with this car and his dream girl. Riding in that car, bouncing up and down on the 4th street bridge, to this beautiful event that I spent so many years planning was the perfect part of the day. I am a photographer. This is one of only 5 pictures that I took myself on that day, sun drenched in the backseat of the '64, palm trees overhead, it was a good day. Bio: Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and educator. Her work explores identity, history, indigenous futurism, feminism, ghosts, magic, and her mixed Native American and Jewish heritage through lens based media and installations. She is a Sundance New Frontier and Indigenous MacArthur Fellow, was a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, and has received support for her work from the Mike Kelley Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Cousin Collective, and more. She was also an Interactive Storyteller for Tribeca Film Institute. LaFountain was born into a family of artists and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is part of the Echo Park Film Center operational co-op, and she teaches experimental film and photography at the California Institute of the Arts, where she is also the Assistant Director of Admissions. She holds a BA from Hampshire College, and a dual MFA in Film & Video and Photography & Media from CalArts.

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