This blog is a journal of Long Beach, California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It will be updated frequently with the pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram.
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
Fagaloa Mose Tiavaasu'e sits by her son's casket during his funeral service at Westside Christian Church. Roketi Tiavaasu'e (Su'e) was shot multiple times in the torso in front of his home in the 3400 block of East 67th Street at after an alleged struggle with two police officers. The family said they are going to sue the Long Beach Police Department.