LA Impressions
Let's start with the LA Impressions gallery. Los Angeles has become my muse. Whereas once I felt compelled to travel to India, Thailand, China or Myanmar I am now more than content to explore my chosen home of Los Angeles as a source of photographic inspiration and material. And I have done so for many years now.
LA Impressions is a synthesis. Whereas i have explored different neighborhoods in great depth this series is different in that it is about a gestalt, a final impression, as though a tourist were to leave with such an impression in his head. Cars are present in most of the images because that is how people see the city and out the window are the billboards, the girls, the buildings ...
This series is a sort of homage to Los Angeles. Of course, not everyone feels the same affection for the City of Angels. Take, for instance, Lewis Baltz, photographer, who has said, "I never did [understand L.A.], really: I always believed that God would destroy L.A. for its sins. Finally I realized that He had already destroyed it, and then left it around as a warning."