Photos: DNC underway in Chicago with an energized Harris-Walz ticket

President Biden speaks as a crowd holds "We [Heart] Joe" signs.

President Biden speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

By Robert Gauthier

and Myung J. Chun

Aug. 20, 2024 12:30 PM PT

Democrats from across the country convened in Chicago to officially crown Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee.

The party’s energetic embrace of Harris’ candidacy coincides with the first in-person DNC in eight years following 2020’s pandemic-altered convention.

The party is also bidding a bittersweet farewell to President Biden.

Monday night’s headline speech from Biden represents the start of a baton pass to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Photojournalists Robert Gauthier and Myung J. Chun are on the ground in Chicago to bring behind-the-scenes visuals and candid moments.

Tim Walz tears up standing with Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tears up while standing with Vice President Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff as Jill Biden speaks about her husband, President Biden, at the Democratic National Convention.

A delegate applauds between a crowd of "We [Heart] Joe" signs.

Delegates cheer Biden at the Democratic National Convention.

President Biden hugs his daughter onstage.

Biden embraces his daughter, Ashley Biden, as he takes the stage at the Democratic National Convention.

Protesters in Chicago hold poster cutouts of bloody hands and a "Free Gaza" sign.

Protesters at Union Park in Chicago.

A law enforcement officer tilts a protester's megaphone away from himself.

A law enforcement officer redirects the megaphone of a protester who was shouting antiabortion slogans at officers along Michigan Avenue.

A line of police officers on bicycles with blue lights.

Law enforcement officers on bicycles barricade a section of Michigan Avenue as protesters with the March For Bodies Against Unjust Laws proceeds to Grant Park.

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Robert Gauthier

Robert Gauthier has been with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. He was the photographer for a project detailing the failings of an L.A. public hospital that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Before The Times, Gauthier worked at the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Escondido Times-Advocate and the Bernardo News in San Diego County, his hometown.

Myung J. Chun has been a photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1999. He started as a still photographer and then moved to videography from 2007 to 2018. Chun won an Emmy in 2011 for his work on a multimedia project about innocent victims of gang violence. He previously worked for the Los Angeles Daily News, a position he started in 1988 while attending Cal State Northridge.

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