Wow — who would’ve thunk it? Already the 50th volume in our beloved and illustrious Because We Love You Series, and who better to knock it out than homegrown Los Angeles photographer Estevan Oriol. We’ve shown some of Oriol’s work before, including when we interviewed him for the coffee table book counterpart to this aptly titled […]


17 Jan
Emus, Pam Anderson and sadistic Barbies

Nothing like hopping on your bike on a summery January night in Los Angeles to seek out some art. The other night as the Santa Ana winds whipped around Santa Monica, I pedaled with my friend Ruby to check out the opening night of photo l.a. xx, the twentieth anniversary of the longest running art […]


Los Angeles-based photographer David Yoon has always loved the city, but yearned to live car-free (good luck on that buddy!). Well he managed to accomplish that goal…in Tokyo. No, not in the City of Angels, but the longing survived. So now he uses his digital camera, laptop, Photoshop and Wacom tablet to transform the city […]


11 Mar
Estevan Oriol drops his "L.A. Woman" coffee table book

LA-based photographer Estevan Oriol has forged a career keeping things simple, and doing what he does best: capturing the world around him on film. He got his start in the early 90s as the tour manager for Cypress Hill and House of Pain, when his dad gifted him a camera and challenged him to record […]