My First Solo Show:

I decided to name the show after this blog. It is, after all, the inspiration that led me to this project. :)




What started as a blog project turned into a weekend ritual with a camera: walking to the Vermont/Sunset rail station, taking the train toward Union Station, and then traveling on foot for miles through Downtown Los Angeles and its surrounding neighborhoods. The result of these ventures is a collection of encounters, thoughts, exchanges, and the anxiety about photographing Los Angeles.

The Migration of Rare Birds is a street history of Los Angeles people amidst the age of surveillance and xenophobia happening throughout the country; it is a questioning of the ethics and intentions of being a street photographer in Los Angeles; it is a documentary of movement to and from, of being stopped and stopping oneself, and then moving onward.


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