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Photos: ‘Swifties’ descend on Sofi for Taylor Swift’s The Eras tour

A portrait of a girl wearing a cowboy hat with a jewel heart around her eye.
Taylor Swift fan Caitlin Swolgaard, 17, of Fontana, waits to go inside SoFi Stadium for the first of six sold-out Eras tour shows on Thursday.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
By Allen J. Schaben
, Gina Ferazzi and Francine Orr

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Swifties unite.

Nearly five months after she launched her first road show since 2018, Taylor Swift is wrapping up the initial U.S. leg of her blockbuster Eras tour with six sold-out concerts at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.

Fans from near and far donned their Taylor-wear and descended on the stadium to see the superstar.

Framed through a shuttle bus window, Taylor Swift fans wait at a cross walk to get to SoFi Stadium.
Swifties wait at a cross walk to enter SoFi Stadium for Taylor Swift‘s concert on Thursday.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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A close-up of a young woman's sparkly eyelids, and gems on her hair.
Taylor Swift fan Alma Leon, 16, of Whittier, arrives at SoFi Stadium.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

A young woman holds out her hands, her wrists covered in multicolored friendship bracelets.
Emma Sadeghi, of Glendale, shows her friendship bracelets as she arrives at the temporarily renamed “Speak Now / Taylor’s Station” at the downtown Inglewood Metro K Line station to transfer to a free shuttle bus to see Taylor Swift perform. By popular demand, Metro is adding service to make it easy to travel to and from the Eras tour concerts at SoFi Stadium.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

A young woman places her hand on her hip, dressed in a shimmering silver dress.
Taylor Swift fan Nahomi Saito, 16, of Huntington Beach, arrives at SoFi Stadium on Thursday.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

A diptych of sparkly outfits at a Taylor Swift concert.
Olivia Lyman, 18, of Brigham City, Utah, rocks sparkly pants and boots. Gabriella Varghese, 12, of Barrington, Ill., arrives at SoFi Stadium with a sequin fringe dress and a sparkly cowboy hat.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Four young women smile while standing inside a bus.
A bus of Swifties ride a free shuttle from the Metro C Line (Green) station to SoFi Stadium.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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A young woman smiles while wearing a bejeweled cowboy hat.
Saniyah Starks, 20, of San Diego, arrives at SoFi Stadium on Thursday.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

A young woman smiles, wearing pink hear-shaped sunglasses.
Emma Alvarez, 19, of Chico, wears heart-shaped sunglasses while riding the packed shuttle bus to SoFi Stadium.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Two young women wearing dresses and boots exit the Metro.
Izzy Taylor, 21, and Kenna Bringhurst, 21, get off the Metro near So-Fi Stadium.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Swifties are photographed under a renamed Hawthorne / Lennox station near So-Fi Stadium.
Swifties are photographed under a renamed Hawthorne / Lennox station near So-Fi Stadium.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Allen J. Schaben

Los Angeles Times staff photographer Allen J. Schaben is an award-winning journalist capturing a wide range of images over the past 35 years. Before joining The Times, he honed his craft at the Detroit Free Press, Dallas Morning News, Wichita Eagle and Connecticut Post. Schaben earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1993.

Gina Ferazzi

Gina Ferazzi has been a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. Her photos are a part of the staff Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news in 2016 for the San Bernardino terrorist attack and for the wildfires in 2004. Her video documentaries include stories on black tar heroin, health clinics, women priests and Marine suicide. Raised in Longmeadow, Mass., she was a two-sport scholarship athlete at the University of Maine, Orono.

Francine Orr

Francine Orr was a staff photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times from 2000-24. She is currently a Knight fellow at the Graduate School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. Previously, she was a staff photographer at the Kansas City Star. Orr served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. While there, she learned how to be a quiet observer and gained a love for stories. She was raised in Colorado and earned bachelor’s degrees in both history and art from the University of Saint Mary. In 2022, Orr received the coveted Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma and the National Headliner Award. She also won the 2020 Meyer “Mike” Berger and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature photography in 2012.

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