‘Los Angeles is so massive, confusing, beautiful, harsh and strange that it almost defies you to make work about it,” says the photographer Gregory Halpern. Plus, nobody walks in Los Angeles.’ Photograph: Gregory Halpern / Webber Gallery SpaceHalpern spent five years on ZZYZX, often travelling to locations in California he picked at random from Google maps. Once he was on a flight from Buffalo to Los Angeles, he recalled, when the pilot announced they were flying over a forest fire that was visible below. That notion of manifest destiny is there still in California, but also the sense that it’s the end of the dream. You are faced with yourself and your life, but just in a more beautiful setting.”ZZYZX is published by Mack (£35).

Source: The Guardian October 15, 2016 16:30 UTC