Fine Print: Los Angeles and vicinity. USA, 2008-2015 Gift

Fine Print: Los Angeles and vicinity. USA, 2008-2015 GiftThe images of this serie begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its manifest destiny. The people, places, and animals in the book did exist before Halperns camera, but he has sewn

documenting people and their daily lives through periods of change and hardship

Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America

five bumper stickers

which came to be known as Give Us the Ballot

the sky sets a dramatic backdrop as locals of the Yangshuo area in China traverse the River Li

On one particular occasion

insecurity

The stories told alongside these photographs—thirty-four of which are published here for the first time—create a book that’s hard to forget

After his military service

leaving more than 56 thousand square kilometres in 19 regions contaminated

In an unusually intimate portrait

Looking back on this particular trip