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Cruel Summer

Although this entry of Archival Recordings is titled "Cruel Summer", the images that I'm sharing are from the very beginning of 2025. The reason is that I'm still processing the events of this year and how much they have impacted daily life in Los Angeles.

I made these images before the city faced the challenges that have come to define this year while out taking pictures with my good friend (and excellent photographer) Halline Overby. They were shot in Echo Park the week before the fires in Altadena and Palisades devastated those respective communities. It was also before the ICE raids began so that horror (and the grassroots response to it) had yet to materialize.

That time and headspace seem so distant from the current state of the world that it may as well be from a movie or something.