The Eyes of Charles Christopher | Where vision is a matter of life and death

Building and rebuilding a life

Cracked Presidio

Tags: Cattlefornia, depression, doubt, failure, faith, family, historic California, Holy Bible, loss, rooms, rubble, Santa Barbara, travel photography

Hit the road

Hit the road

New Mexico, 2011.

Tags: journey, New Mexico, night photography, photography, road trip, The West, travel photography, USA

Butterfly

Stopped truck

Castaic, 2013.

Tags: black-and-white photography, Castaic, motor vehicles, photography, travel photography, truck stops, truckers, trucks

From a speeding car

Tags: USA, Texas, road trip, travel during pandemic, no restrooms, strong people, surreal, wind energy, alternative energy, bird killers

Disembodied newsstand

Disembodied newsstand

West Hollywood, 2014.

Tags: dinosaur, hard copy, legacy media, Los Angeles, newsstand, night photography, old school, photography, print, street photography, Sunset Blvd., Sunset Boulevard, Sunset Strip, travel photography, WeHo, West hollywood

Journey

Transition

Big Sur, 2015.

Tags: B&W photography, Big Sur, black-and-white photography, bridges, Northern California, photography, structural wonders, travel photography

Portrait of Ken

Ken Sanders

North Hollywood, 2010.

Tags: Dan Watanabe, film producer, histrionics, Hollywood, horror, independent films, indie film, Ken Sanders, kidnapping, low budget, melodramas, murder, prostitution, Sensei Dan, stalking, ULB, USC, woman in jeopardy

Off High Tower Road

High Tower Court

Hollywood, 2014.

Tags: Broadview Terrace, Claude Rains, Dead Again, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, night crawler, night photography, Old Hollywood, photography, Rudi Gernreich, The Long Goodbye, travel photography, Xavier Cugat

Valley of the deficients

Glendale, 2011.

Rootless and transitory.

Tags: artificial, blind, California, Californians, car culture, drought, earthquakes, fake, fires, Grapes of Wrath, Hollywood, homeless, impermanent, Los Angeles, no character, poverty, Puritanical, rigidity, rootless, Sacramento, snakes, So Cal, Southern California, strip malls, temporary, uptight, wealth inequality, Wonderbread

Act Three

Movin' on

Santa Clarita, 2015.

Tags: Los Angeles County, meth labs, photography, public transit, public transportation, So Cal, trains, travel photography

Good luck So Cal… (you’ll need it)

Summer in the city

Tags: apocalyptic, California, crime, drought, earthquakes, homelessness, hostile environment, insanity, living in cars, mental illness, plastic surgery, potholes, poverty, Southern California, taxes, tent cities, The Grapes of Wrath, Traffic, uptight

Mildred Pierce was here

Mildred Pierce was here

Burbank, 2012.

Tags: 40 Carats, Bette Davis, Beyond the Forest, Burbank, Burbank Studios, Columbia Pictures, Forest Lawn, Joan Crawford, L.A. noir, Liv Ullmann, Lost Horizon, Mildred Pierce, movie studio, My Fair Lady, night in Burbank, night photography, photography, Ross Hunter, The Sins of Rachel Cade, travel photography, Warner Bros., Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Suburban darkness

Storm over suburbia

Canyon Country, 2012.

Tags: black-and-white photography, fringe, Los Angeles County, Mike Garcia, outer ring, periphery, photography, Santa Clarita, So Cal, Southern California, street photography, Suburbs, USA

“California is like Wonderbread, it has no essence.” – costume designer Ann Roth

Dusk by Magic Mountain

Valencia, 2013.

Tags: amusement parks, freeways, photography, rides, Rollercoaster, Santa Clarita, Six Flags Magic Mountain, So Cal, Stephen Silverman, travel photography, Valencia

The good life

The good life

Hollywood, 2014.

Tags: California, California deficients, expensive, Hollywood, homelessness, hot, income inequality, Los Angeles, photography, poverty, sanctuary city, slums, tacky, taxes, travel photography

Walking is non-essential

Land of constant motion

So Cal, 2014.

Tags: automobiles, B&W photography, black-and-white photography, California, California deficients, CalTrans, car culture, freeways, infrastructure, perpetual motion, photography, race to nowhere, roads, Southern California

Afterlife

Anna Nicole Smith

Beverly Hills, 2011.

Tags: abuse, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole Smith, architectural photography, blonde bombshell, bombshell, death, depravity, drugs, exploitation, fame, fotografie, glam, glamour, glamour girl, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, photography, reality TV, reality TV star, self-indulgence, sex, sex symbol, street photography, supermodel, urban photography

Hell

Hell

Santa Monica, 2011.

Tags: amusement parks, boredom, danger, germs, Human Desire, mindless, photography, rollercoasters, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Pier, sin, sloth, street photography, stupidity, tourism, tourist trap, vanity

Don Diers at Paramount

Don Diers at Paramount

Hollywood, 2013.

Don Diers at Paramount 2

Hollywood, 2013.

Tags: film crew, MPTV, Paramount Studios, photography, set decorator, set photography, Stage 32, television, Tristram Shapeero, UCLA, unit stills

Kristy Swanson & Brec Bassinger

This shot was taken on the fly, as is usually the case. These two knew exactly what to do as we made a collective split second decision to create something. Love the result.

Kristy Swanson & Brec Bassinger

Tags: actors, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, evil doll, horror movie, Jeff Hare, Killer Under the Bed, teen angst, unit still photography, unit stills

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