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.

PACIFIC PALISADES - Over a hundred demonstrators gathered at Will Rogers State Beach on Sunday morning to protest the Environmental Protection Agency's controversial decision to use the area as a toxic waste sorting site to process debris from the Palisades Fire.