Art in Los Angeles: Man and Nature
Art in Los Angeles: Man and Nature
Nov 11, 2022
In a city saturated with color and chaos, Brock Faulkners chooses restraint. His black-and-white photographs of Los Angeles reveal a quieter, more contemplative side of urban life. Faulkners captures the city’s edges—its alleys, shadows, and forgotten structures—with a poetic precision. His work is less about spectacle and more about atmosphere. In his latest series, Static Light, Faulkners explores the tension between permanence and impermanence in the built environment. Each image feels like a memory suspended in grayscale.
The absence of color heightens the emotional weight of his compositions. “I’m interested in what’s left behind,” Faulkners says, “the traces, the silence.” His photographs often feature solitary figures, distant horizons, and architectural decay. Critics have compared his work to early 20th-century documentary photography, but with a distinctly modern sensibility. Faulkners is not nostalgic—he’s forensic. His lens dissects the city’s surfaces, searching for meaning in texture and light. The series was recently exhibited at a downtown warehouse gallery, drawing praise for its stark elegance. Viewers described the show as “haunting,” “meditative,” and “eerily beautiful.” Faulkners’ process involves long walks, analog cameras, and an intuitive relationship with timing. He often waits hours for the right shadow to fall. His work challenges the viewer to slow down and look closer. In a city obsessed with speed and spectacle, Faulkners offers a counterpoint: stillness. Through his photography, Los Angeles becomes a place of quiet revelations.
The absence of color heightens the emotional weight of his compositions. “I’m interested in what’s left behind,” Faulkners says, “the traces, the silence.” His photographs often feature solitary figures, distant horizons, and architectural decay. Critics have compared his work to early 20th-century documentary photography, but with a distinctly modern sensibility. Faulkners is not nostalgic—he’s forensic. His lens dissects the city’s surfaces, searching for meaning in texture and light. The series was recently exhibited at a downtown warehouse gallery, drawing praise for its stark elegance. Viewers described the show as “haunting,” “meditative,” and “eerily beautiful.” Faulkners’ process involves long walks, analog cameras, and an intuitive relationship with timing. He often waits hours for the right shadow to fall. His work challenges the viewer to slow down and look closer. In a city obsessed with speed and spectacle, Faulkners offers a counterpoint: stillness. Through his photography, Los Angeles becomes a place of quiet revelations.
