“It (skateboarding) spread like wildfire all over Southern California. I know it happened in other parts of the world too, but California felt like the center of it all.”
"There are subjects that I don't need to exchange a single word with. They just know how to be photographed, they understand the camera and me, even if we speak different languages. Then there are those that require a number of hours of what I call 'attrition' of the subject, which is the time that passes until he or she reaches a sort of inner calm that enables the 'moment' to take place. It's said about Diane Arbus that everyone she photographed - whether it was a dwarf or transvestite or just a regular magazine portrait of an actor or businessman - they all projected the same expression, her expression. The moment I look for is also a moment of devotion, in which the subject somehow takes off a mask. He peels off a layer, bares his self. Sometimes it doesn't happen that quickly. An entire relationship develops in the time that the peeling back occurs."
This Saturday over at M+B Gallery is a duo opening of Hugh Holland's "Locals Only" and Michal Chelbin "The Black Eye". Event runs from 6 - 8 pm on Oct 23, 2010
M+B
612 North Almont Drive
West Hollywood, CA 90069
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