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(Intermission)
2021-08-18 00:09:46 UTC
Duality, Los Angeles 2018 I’m finally back in Los Angeles after two months in Stockholm. And it’s heartbreaking. From the second I got off the plane and needed to get though passport control, I was smacked in the face with the brutal reality of how utterly run-down our infrastructure is.…

New normal
2020-05-10 03:35:05 UTC
New Normal, Stockholm 2019 I’ve lost count of the number of days since the sequester started. When I consider it, I come to something like 60 days time has a funny way of playing tricks on you when you’re in a situation like this one. The days don’t really start…

Thought the looking glass
2020-03-28 05:26:28 UTC
Through the looking glass, Palm Springs 2018 After the first week of quarantine there’s an interesting emotional dichotomy at play. But this is about more than Covid 19 and quarantine so let me back time up a few weeks, to a morning I woke-up, completely disoriented, crying my eyes out.…

Learning To Fly
2019-12-17 04:41:17 UTC
Learning to Fly, 2019 As the year 2019 comes to a slow, inevitable close, I’m struck by the sudden desire to start photographing again. I can’t really say that I ever stopped–I carry a camera with me every day to work. I shoot images on the weekends out with the…

Alternative realities
2019-10-10 05:16:39 UTC
Alternative Realities, LA, 2018 I think communication has been hacked… Not all communication of course, but masses of it, especially when it comes to what is actually happening in the world. I’m not talking about Russian Facebook ads or the 2016 election hacking, I’m talking about the root of the…

Look here
2019-09-30 23:33:27 UTC
Look Here, Los Angeles, 2018 I’m fighting the impulse that people–a vast majority of people by my humble reckoning–are not capable of deciding what is in their best interest. Maybe my attitude is a product of the twenty-four-hour-cable-news-cycle-pandemic that’s currently infecting anyone with the remotest interest in current events. It’s…

Muse-ums
2019-09-17 03:49:09 UTC
Muse-ums, LA 2018 There’s a quick simple story behind this image that I rather like. I made this image during a trip to the Marciano to see Yayoi Kusama’s ”with all my love for the tulips, I pray forever.” We were just about to leave the exhibit after having shot…

Mardi Gras 2018
2018-09-10 18:32:45 UTC
I spoke to Bruce Guilden at the opening night of his “GO” show opening a couple years back. While talking, I mentioned that my favorite book of his was his monograph on Mardi Gras, “Hey Mister, throw me some beads.” In what was quickly becoming a trend of that conversation,…

Gentle monster
2018-07-31 05:19:58 UTC
Gentle Monster close, Los Angeles 2017 Gentle Monster far, Los Angeles 2017 On the day that I made these images, I remember thinking that I had never experienced a sun shining so bright–nor, for that matter, had I ever seen concrete reflect as much lights as Broadway was currently endeavoring…

Deafening silence
2018-06-27 06:09:00 UTC
“Deafening Silence” Malibu 2018 It’s quiet where I am. It’s so quiet that the noises outside are monstrously loud even though there’s nothing new or unexpected about them. It’s the same motorbikes and traffic and barking dogs and car alarms I hear every day, but the house is oh so…

Rumors of my demise…
2018-05-10 00:04:46 UTC
Bridging realities, Los Angeles 2017 I’m still alive. I’ve had a ton to write about as well, but the formula is broken without the images to accompany the narratives. So I’ve put it all on hold while I’ve focused on making other kind of images using other techniques and technologies…

Hairy Scary
2018-01-12 05:19:44 UTC
“Hairy Scary” Santa Monica 2017 The idea for this image came in a flash. Ella and I were sitting in the living room. I was reading the Sunday New York Times and Ella was behind me, on the other side of the room brushing her hair with what could only…

Low
2018-01-09 06:56:26 UTC
“Low” Venice Beach 2017 One of the best parts about living where I live is that I’m only a stones throw from the Venice Beach boardwalk. Venice is seething with images just begging to be made and time after time when I head down there, close to sunset with a…

Behind
2018-01-04 06:10:24 UTC
“Behind” Carson, 2017 Over the break I’ve taken some time to edit. I’ve tried to be brutally honest with myself and the result has left me feeling a little conflicted. Of my last 250-300 or so pictures I had pulled perhaps 20-30 selects. That puts my hit rate in the…

Call Eli
2017-12-30 02:19:14 UTC
“Call Eli” Los Angeles 2017 This store was someone’s dream… I’m going to say that it was Eli’s store and ergo Eli’s dream of how he was going to make it big in the world. He had a dream of how he was going to leave his mark on Los…

The Reader
2017-12-29 06:26:16 UTC
“The Reader” Manhattan Beach 2017 The facet of film photography that hooked me was the aspect of full commitment. By full commitment I’m referring to all aspects of photography that a digital shooter will waste time checking or changing or adjusting rather than shooting and trusting their instincts. When I…

At a loss
2017-12-28 03:20:00 UTC
“At a loss” Los Angeles 2017 I’m at a loss. I don’t remember making this image. And while I don’t recall making this image, I am 100% certain that I was the one who made it. That may sound ridiculous but when you are married to a photographer and have…

A is for accident
2017-12-07 04:51:28 UTC
“A is for accident” On the days leading up to that trip to Ikea a couple weeks back, I had an aching feeling. Anyone who has shot long enough with the same camera–especially film cameras with a bevy of mechanical bits–can tell you with some degree of accuracy when something…

There
2017-11-28 05:41:10 UTC
“There” Time for something different. I need to stop raging about the world for a few minutes and have a little bit of light-hearted, old fashioned enjoyment, if even only for a minute or two. I may or may not have mentioned that I’m trying to shoot a little more…

Fuck you man
2017-11-23 06:09:27 UTC
“Fuck you man” The story behind this image starts as a familiar one. I’m out shooting downtown and something catches my eye. I quickly frame up and hit the shutter. A few weeks later I look at the negatives and it either worked out or it didn’t. Sometimes when I…

Waiting
2017-11-22 06:10:23 UTC
“Waiting” My train rides with Elliot always lead to Union Station. The Expo line stops at 7th Street and we transfer to the red line and ride the rest of the way to Union Station. Sometimes we’ll get out and walk down 7th and then turn left, up towards Grand…

At the end of the day
2017-11-20 05:11:30 UTC
“At the end of the day 1” ‘At the end of the day 2” “At the end of the day 3” Nothing today will be related to photography really. You’ve been warned. I haven’t processed any film this month so far. In fact I haven’t shot very much this month…

Hello, Hej
2017-11-17 06:17:32 UTC
“Hello, hej” “Mirror mirror… mirror…” “Twin size bed” If you’ve spent most of your adult life in Sweden and then moved abroad, it’s a moral imperative to locate your closest Ikea the second you come up for air. It’s a law actually… in the Swedish constitution. Given that subconscious mandate…

Shadows and legs
2017-11-14 05:20:41 UTC
“Shadows and legs” I made this image on a Sunday a while back. AM and I had just picked up the girls in Century City and were headed to the Farmer’s Market in Beverly Hills for some fresh produce and then to the library so Ester could take-out a few…

Metroreflex and other nearest misses
2017-11-13 05:22:57 UTC
“The Driver” “Metroreflex” “Meanwhile on the red line” “Doritos” “Sunbeam” “LVR” “See something say something” “Nap time” Here’s another batch of images that were all about to hit the edit room floor. They span the course of the last few years with the earliest being in September of 2015 and…

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