Katy Grannan’s Boulevard is a culmination of a three-year portraiture project on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles, stemming from an attraction to what she calls 'anonymous people' and curiosities about what it means to be seen and known.

In nearly all of Grannan's street portraits, subjects are photographed on white wall backgrounds under the harsh light of West Coast sun. In her search for subjects, she seeks those who aren’t just willing to be photographed, but those interested in collaborating in on-the-spot posturing for the camera. And within this mode the photographer shares authorship of her work to those being authored. XXXThe resulting works, while depicting strangers on the street, expand into larger documents of the process of discovery, visibility, and a reversal of anonymization. What Grannan asks of viewers is simply to acknowledge the Other, and to see those who are largely unseen.