Telotypes

Telotypes (from the Greek stems τέλος “end,” also “boundary, border, extremity” and τύπος “mark, figure, outline”) stems from a keen scholarly interest in the history and imagery of the American West. It also stems from a realistic appreciation of the unique ecology of Los Angeles. With the Covid-19 pandemic, the nights of unrest that followed peaceful protests of June 2020 for more racial justice as well as the notable absence of traffic, the ruthless nature of the built environment reasserted itself. Los Angeles became a disquieting hall of mirrors. Building on the pictures I made in the fall of 2019, I continued to photograph something akin to the genius loci of contemporary Los Angeles by photographing the imprint the city leaves on the landscape and people’s psyches.