This is Los Angelev
What is Los Angelev?
These are the postcards. This is the folklore.
Los Angeles photographed by Lev and a Volvo.
These are images of my adoptive city, the city of angles and angels. I began shooting this series 2010 with my daughter in an attempt to engage her interest in our fellow denizens, their styles and the multi-ethnic, ephemeral art this city has on rotating display. Over the course of more than ten years of driving and admiring the city through the passenger window of my Volvo, much has changed. In 2015 I followed the path of Bob Dylan and went electric. I affixed a 3-foot beauty dish to the roof rack. The light brought out details from the shadows and saturated the trending fashions. It also made me slow down, take closer notice and engage. As everywhere else in the world, this city has its characters, its assholes, people down on their luck, and people on a mission. Perhaps no other city has sold its soul to the automobile quite like Los Angelev. So it is only appropriate that it is from a vehicle that I document the one thing everyone here has: a story.
