Channel
In Channel, Sasha Rudensky examines the Los Angeles River-project: a waterway once formed by snowmelt and rain, now largely encased in concrete since 1938.
The river has become part nature, part human artifact—a fossil of the future. Rudensky’s photographs portray the fifty-one-mile channel as a place where Edenic beauty and apocalyptic decay coexist. Some areas have been rewilded, while others show draining holes, fluorescent algae, and crumbling infrastructure. By shifting perspective and scale, Rudensky crafts a world where gravity misbehaves and seasons are out of order. Channel is both a documentation of what exists and a narrative projection of what may come—a landscape where nature and human remnants fuse into new hybrid forms.
