John Middelkoop

Can I call this a Visual Juxtaposition? The title comes from a old NPR radio program called “Which Way LA”. I can can still recall the host’s special FM style voice. I love this building for its simplicity. Mount a bunch of landing lights to the side of the building and call it Architecture. Visually interesting, I shot the heck out of it..
From my iBook “Urbane, The Crossroads of Urban and Banal.”
For more info see https://koopfilms.org/urbane/

a group of tall buildings in a cloudy sky

grayscale and low-angle photography of palm tree

I spent almost 2 years living in Orange County, California shooting a photo essay about this ubiquitous place. Known mostly for its wealthy and fascist residents who populate motels and hotels on the weekends to do illicit drugs and have wild sex with everybody except their partners. In doing my research I discovered a newspaper article that detailed the outrageous amounts of money spent on fake Palm Trees. Why this was deemed necessary I’m not sure, but you can tell where they are installed because they look just a little too perfect.