photography, life, art, and Los Angeles

January 27, 2016 2:10 PM

Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin has been documenting the Los Angeles urban landscape for over a decade. His latest project, The Los Angeles Recordings, examines the physical structure of neighborhoods and how they are molded and reconfigured by outside elements (demographics, gentrification, the passage of time.) “The Los Angeles Recordings is a project I’ve been working on in some way, shape, or form for over a decade. Very soon after getting into photography, I recognized the medium as a way I could show others the city as I viewed it. LA’s people, landscape, and topography exist in a state of constant change that is, in my opinion, rarely portrayed from street level." [h/t]

More work:

Daily Recordings: Project notes, random musings, and other thoughts about photography, life, art, and Los Angeles…

Liquor Store Logic: Liquor Stores from E. Hollywood, Koreatown, & Mid City

Emulsive: I am Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin and this is why I shoot film

posted by Room 641-A (4 comments total)

I love this stuff. I also love the Los Angeles strip mall and immigrant suburbia in general, despite being in urban planning, which posits sprawl as the devil's landscape. Thanks for posting!
posted by spamandkimchi at 5:24 PM on January 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is terrific! Everything is so ephemeral here, and you look up and stuff is just gone.
posted by persona au gratin at 11:40 PM on January 27, 2016

I want to tour all the locations in Liquor Store Logic dressed as Jeffrey Lebowski.
posted by valkane at 6:05 AM on January 28, 2016

Oh man, how did I not know about this? Fantastic.
posted by klangklangston at 6:36 PM on January 28, 2016