Using a large-format camera in the front seat of his car, photographer Ian Byers-Gamber is taking portraits of L.A. artists during the pandemic.
“Patrisse, 9 June 2020,” by Ian Byers-Gamber — a portrait of artist and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors.It also functions as a record of the Southern California landscape. Los Angeles serves as backdrop to this series, represented by fragments of old factories, Craftsman homes and Spanish Revival bungalows.“You have suburbia and deep downtown — a couple of people are at work, most are at their homes,” says the artist.
He had met Saar once previously, while photographing one of her works for the Benton Museum at Pomona College. “Paul, 12 May 2020" by Ian Byers-Gamber. Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya photographs Byers-Gamber in return.
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