December 11 - 16, 2021

I was back in LA for my friend Kenrick’s first LA solo show appropriately titled “Naked and Famous” something I’ve been looking forward to all year long. I was also doing my first DJ set there at High Tide for the afterparty. It was a fun night and a full 24 hours of no sleep for me, minus the 45min nap I took in the car.

Daniel the lovely studio mate also let me take his camera with me to LA so I got to capture some scenes there in Fuji and B&W film. Film I forgot to bring and ended up leading me to stop by at the little camera and magazine shop where I met Raymond the shop owner, photographer and dj and who I proceeded to spend the next 5 or so hours chilling in LA with, and so graciously got me Japanese food, thank you Raymond.

Some of the rest of my time there was spent going to the Huntington Garden’s, which has the most extensive variety of desert plants outdoors I have ever seen. Kenrick and I did a part two collab at his studio in DTLA. And unfortunately to my dismay, LA was not really any warmer than Chicago.

Flowers on Film at the Huntington
Photos using Cannon Ae-1 and B&W Ilford 35mm film