"A Big Middle Finger to the Local Community"

"He didn't realize it at the time but the community was also undergoing drastic changes as tech companies moved in on the boardwalk, inciting protests against rent increases, gentrification, and displacement. Snapchat had started operating out of a bungalow on Ocean Front Walk two years earlier, and by the summer of 2015, the company had acquired tens of thousands of feet of additional office space nearby, including a $25,000-a-month penthouse apartment overlooking the street vendors and homeless encampments.
"The multi-billion-dollar tech company began the process of relocating from Venice to Santa Monica earlier this year, but to Saguy, who is himself a tech entrepreneur and the founder of a mobile app publishing company, the damage had already been done."

Jennifer Swann at Los Angeles talks with photographer Dotan Saguy about his exhibit Venice Beach, Last Days of a Bohemian Paradise.