IT'S A MESS WITHOUT YOU

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Subcategory:Deserts

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It's a Mess Without You! - Cinco, CA - 2011

First printed: 2014

I had been photographing the abandoned trailers at this site for four years before capturing this image. The same room appears in an earlier photograph Desert Kitchen - Cinco, CA - 2010, before the sink was pried out and some unknown person or persons were moved to add this memorable inscription to the scene. As a documentary photographer, I can only bear witness to the aftermath of such events, wondering like you, who may have spray-painted the note, in what circumstance, and for what intended audience. Whatever the author’s intention, this image has caught the imagination of a wide range of people on a personal level, leading to rampant, engaging speculation as to the full story. The large-size print edition is on its way to selling out, but a smaller-size edition is available as well.

Boom: a Journal of California - Framing the Desert - Summer 2015

West Hollywood Lifestyle Magazine - Premiere Issue - Winter 2014

KCET Artbound: High & Dry - A Collaboration Surveying the American Desert - May 21, 2014

LINK TO PRINT EDITIONS & PRICING