| Los Angeles is centered around the car. Your car is your temperature-controlled cocoon, shielding you from the world outside your windows. This world is often quiet, private. It’s that world that I’m interested in. I take photographs from my car, using the mirrors and windows as design elements to frame my subjects. By doing this, I am able to establish a relationship between the subject and the viewer – you are the one witnessing the event in the photograph. There are no rules as to what might capture my attention. Sometimes I am distracted by what comes dangerously close to my car while other times I am relaxed and witness to a tender, respectful moment across the street. I use a no-frills, plastic medium format camera with black & white film. The large size of the prints (36"x36") and the flat silver metal frames further adds to that sense of being there. When presented, the photographs feel like a long string of human stories, specter-like in their anonymity. |
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