Los Angeles unfolds in dreamlike fragments of museums, storefronts, markets, and streets washed in fluorescent light.
THE FLUORESCENT ATLAS
Project Overview
The Fluorescent Atlas is a nine-year body of original photographic work that studies Los Angeles’ surreal vernacular: museums, storefronts, markets, and streets rendered in dreamlike fragments of fluorescent light. The book explores how ordinary spaces become cinematic and how memory fuses with geography across the city’s evolving landscape.
Through electric color, atmosphere, wide angles, and a distinctly liminal visual language, the work reframes Los Angeles as a living map shaped by illusion, nostalgia, and ambient strangeness. The art book functions as both an archive and world building exercise, transforming documentary photography into a system of urban myth-making.
Project Details
Project type:
Fine art photo book and photographic archive
Role:
Photography, writing, art direction, editing, sequencing, and book design. Developed the visual system, narrative text, and structural flow to map Los Angeles through nine years of documentary and cinematic imagery.
Programs used:
Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Lightroom
Deliverables:
13 × 11 inch hardcover photo book, exhibition installation images, and photographic mockups
Printing:
Blurb; hardcover, Mohawk ProPhoto Pearl paper, small-batch production
Exhibition:
Displayed in Vitruvia, the senior capstone exhibition at the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA