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"Driven From the Garden" by Photographer David Slegers

David Slegers's 'Driven From the Garden' finds stark poetry in Los Angeles's infrastructure, where comfort curdles into unease.

"Driven From the Garden" by Photographer David Slegers

David Slegers's 'Driven From the Garden' finds stark poetry in Los Angeles's infrastructure, where comfort curdles into unease.

Huseyin Emanet

Huseyin Emanet

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"Driven From the Garden" by Photographer David Slegers

Photography

David Slegers's "Driven From the Garden" is a series of photographs shot around Los Angeles and Pasadena. The images magnify how the city's infrastructure, meant to offer security and comfort, often delivers the opposite. Slegers captures a harsh, inaccessible environment we've built for ourselves, revealing a profound tension between human expectations and the resistant urban landscape.

The photographs are visually striking, with a keen eye for light and shadow. Slegers finds beauty in overlooked corners, from empty parking lots to weathered facades, turning ordinary urban scenes into something monumental and uneasy. The work resonates as both documentary and mood piece, inviting slow contemplation of the spaces we inhabit and the discomfort they quietly hold.