Simon Rodia was born in Italy, and immgirated to California. In 1921 he moved to the small town of Watts and began working on a strange project that would consume the next thirty-four years of his life. Spending what little money he earned as a construction worker on cement and steel, he worked ni
Imbedded, life-time photographer. Re-mastering older work, shooting new series. Continual, noirish documentation of Los Angeles, my hometown. Remembers wet darkrooms....