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One of the challenges for any photographer is photographing in his or hers own backyard.

It's just too easy to take what's in our neighborhood for granted. We see it every day, hence what could be so special about it?

But therein lies the power of photography.

Its ability to reveal the familiar and mundane in wonderful new ways.

And that is what makes the photography of quasi-boyd-Bolden so special.

He photographs the City of Angels by documenting its endless and overlapping signage, strip malls, and palm trees, and does so

from a personal point of view. The result is polarizing for sure. For some, it's a confirmation

of the Los Angeles of their memories and their current experiences,

while for others it lacks the beauty and mystery of the city's manufactured mythology.

And therein lies the strength of his work.

It doesn't leave the viewer thinking just one thing.

It challenges you to give a little thought to what you think you're seeing.

I was really struck by your work. I was born in New York, but I was raised in L.A.

So I really have very little memory of New York. So Los Angeles has been it for me.

Okay. Okay. And taking a look at your photographs, I think it's one of the few times that I could actually say I saw my Los Angeles in somebody's pictures. And I think you probably have heard that, you know, other people share that from some of the comments that I've seen other people make about your photographs. But I think it's interesting that, like me,

you're a transplant. So before we get into the photographs, tell us about how your family

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