Juggalos are a deeply misunderstood subculture; the FBI classifying them as a gang in 2011 proves that. However, under the veneer of face paint, clown personas, costumes, and Faygo is a community of people that are deeply committed to one another. This was on full...
Jason Lappa is a photographer, journalist, and documentarian based out of Charlottesville, Virginia. He is also a contributor for RVA Mag and is leading a project called PROTESTOR, an an ongoing journal of photographs that I am logging as I attend protests and marches across the United States for the duration of the Trump Administration.
The Candy Cars of Stunt Sunday
There is no question Richmond, Virginia is a dichotomous place with a story to tell. Yet picking the right story is always the challenge for any photojournalist or writer. Part of this challenge is balancing the obvious with the not so obvious, and exposing it in a...
Charlottesville: Unite the Right through the eyes of Jason Lappa
The photographs in this essay are a terrifying glimpse into the events that unfolded in Charlottesville at Unite the Right this past weekend--events that for me, started on Friday evening at a small nameless field on the University of Virginia campus and would not end...
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