Exhibition : Los Angeles - John Hesketh
date:Wednesday, July 9, 2008 time:12:00 PM to 5:00 PM venue:UCR/California Museum Of Photography address:3824 Main Street Riverside, CA 92501 View map from:UCR/California Museum Of Photography
On view at the UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center, John Hesketh's Los Angeles explore a set of personal relationships at the same time they offer a profound discourse on the politics and identity of the City of Angels. In a still-evolving series that began in the mid-nineties, using long exposure and aggressive flash-lighting technique, these large-format photographic images reclaim the original connotation of the city’s Spanish name. Hesketh "redefines Los Angeles as a collection of souls" by depicting his friends and neighbors as angels in the aftermath of riots, earthquakes, and wildfires. This ever-widening network of angels will be premiered at UCR/CMP in an installation which both floats the angles above the gallery and projects them into a darkened space. For Hesketh the creation of an angel out of an ordinary person is a collaborative endeavor: standing still for 40 minutes, the subject slowly gives up her identity to film and in the process both photographer and subject "discover the angel."
Date : May 22, 2008 - July 22, 2008.
Time : 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM.
Location : UCR/California Museum Of Photography.
