L.A. NIGHT (United States, 2002-2003)
Hans-Christian Schink went to Los Angeles in 2002 as a participant in a programme for German-American cultural exchange. He decided to photograph the city in two ways – with a view camera from high points on the edges of the city, and with a 35 mm camera, within the city. In both cases he worked in the middle of the night. The photos he made with the SLR he blew up and cropped down until all that remained were almost abstract, very grainy images. That LA no longer looks in any way like the clichéd image we all carry with us.
