American Borders

Photographs from the frontlines of suburbia

Los Angeles is a grid of neighbourhoods, connected and disconnected by roads.

Writer Dorothy Parker once described LA as “72 suburbs in search of a city”. Rapper Ice-T said the city is “a microcosm of the United States. If LA falls, the country falls.” Personally, I find cultural theorist Christian Gonzalez Ho’s description to be the most helpful. He see…