LA River One of the reasons I was drawn to these locations is the shear scale of them. In Los Angeles they have concrete lined pretty much all of their river and drainage systems. Some of these river beds, known as the LA River, can be up to 100 meters wide and 20 meters deep and many miles long. Roads and freeways are built over them using concrete again. While I was there I saw a new section of an elevated freeway being built and was amazed to see that it comes in kit form. Pre-cast, delivered on the back of flat bed lorries and then craned into position. These brutalist forms transform the landscape and take over the environment almost like they’ve been built by an ancient race for another purpose. I wanted to capture them at dawn when the light draws a different perspective to them and for people to gain their own narrative.
