Crystal Jones, assisted by Los Angeles County Homeless Services Authority outreach workers, prepares to move with her partner from their homeless camp to a shelter Thursday before the storm.
Chaplain Kevin Deegan, left, holds Julio Valladares’ hand at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in January 2022 in Mission Hills. Valladares is among the 100,000 people who have died of COVID-19 in California.
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Silvia Rázgová is a former photo editor at the Los Angeles Times. She joined The Times in 2022 after previously working for the newspaper and other publications as a freelance photographer. Born in Slovakia, she immigrated to the United States in 2000 and continued her education, receiving a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After working as a contract photojournalist for the Rocky Mountain News in Colorado, Rázgová became a staff photographer at the National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where she covered daily news, documentary projects, and features for nearly five years. In 2016, she moved to Los Angeles working on commissions as a photojournalist and continued to photograph projects in the UAE and Slovakia. In her personal work she explores the themes of home, loss, belonging and poignancy of life.