Photographer captures L.A.'s spiritual side in small-church series
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"Blue Church" is one of the churches that Kevin McCollister photographed for a Twitter project that documents the undiscovered charm of LA's storefront churches.
(Kevin McCollister)
Photographer Kevin McCollister enjoys walking around Southern California, but not along the cobblestone walkways of Rodeo Drive, the white sandy beaches of the Pacific or the trendy Sunset Strip. He prefers exploring paths less traversed in the unpretentious, sometimes seedy neighborhoods of L.A.
It was on one of his early morning walkabouts that he began noticing a proliferation of one-room storefront churches in pockets near MacArthur Park. Since then McCollister has been photographing the often-overlooked micro-churches that dot the urban landscape — the faithful grit to the city's glam. He finished his "60 Churches, 60 Days" series on Twitter in April but has continued to snap more than 100 of the humble, transitory houses of worship that have popped up in places like a former shoe store.