I’ve been working on a photography project for a while without really realizing I was making a book.
Over the years, I kept photographing the same kinds of things: old bridges, rail lines, industrial areas, forgotten buildings, concrete structures, utility lines, weathered surfaces and strange little pieces of Los Angeles that most people probably pass without noticing.
Eventually I realized those photographs belonged together.
The project became Overlooked, a photography book about the quieter parts of the city — the structures, spaces and objects that sit outside the version of Los Angeles people usually see.
I’ve always been drawn to places that seem to have a history behind them. A battered industrial building, an aging bridge or an empty stretch of infrastructure can say as much about a city as its landmarks do. Sometimes different decades of Los Angeles seem to exist right next to each other.
A lot of people know me primarily through my writing and filmmaking, but I was an artist long before either of those became my profession. Photography has always been part of that. Overlooked brings that side of my work together in one place.
Overlooked is now nearing completion, and I’ll be sharing more updates on the book soon.
