Behind the scenes at America’s new legal cannabis farms
As the daughter of a pot farmer, Kristen Angelo practically grew up in a grow room. The Seattle-based photographer was exposed to cannabis culture at a young age as her family resided on Vashon Island,...
View ArticleInside California’s all-women cannabis retreats
Stoners have been victim to a lot of lazy stereotyping. In mainstream pop culture, their portrayals tend to sway between furry, bedraggled men and lazy, low-functioning dropouts. Their female...
View ArticleThe Travel Diary: The enduring beauty of America’s national parks
I was born and raised in Enfield, North London and starting getting into photography when I was about 15. After a while of shooting around my neighbourhood, I soon began searching for other sources of...
View ArticleCapturing West Coast skaters, the Victorian way
Tintype is a century-and-a-half old Victorian photographic process that requires the subject to keep very still for a few seconds – which is why it’s surprising Berkeley-based photographer Jenny...
View ArticleEd Templeton on Larry Clark’s renegade style of photography
Hordes of photographers from my generation cite Larry Clark as an influence, and almost inescapably I am no different. The raw authenticity of his legendary books Tulsa (1971) and Teenage Lust (1983),...
View ArticleThe mysterious LA religion working to stop the apocalypse
A crowd departs from a small temple on a weekend afternoon in the Californian sun. Inside is a painting of Jesus, an altar and a large wooden cross. At first glance, this appears to be nothing more...
View ArticleCalifornia fires: what it’s like to lose your home to flames
It’s been two months since I lost my home in the Woolsey Fire, and while I have been waiting for it to hit hard, to experience some kind of PTSD, that feeling has yet to come. Perhaps my life in...
View ArticleCapturing the punks and poets of ’70s California
Hailing from California, Michael Jang came of age during the 1970s. Over that decade, the photographer would amass several series of work, including The Jangs (1973), Beverly Hilton (1973), San...
View ArticlePhotos from California’s countercultural heyday
In 1968, with America on the cusp of sweeping social change, photographer Dennis Stock took off on a five-week road trip up and down California. Camera in hand, he captured the final days of...
View ArticleJamie Brisick reflects on losing his home to wildfires
California is on fire. Or at least it is on the homepage of The Guardian, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and pretty much every news channel I turn to. There are more than a dozen...
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