LA Nights

With no tripod and long exposures needed I turned to the elements on the streets to steady the camera and capture these photos. Bus benches, concrete slabs, car roofs, street signs, sidewalks, my backpack, hat and even shoe were all used for these images. 

The LA River

Stretching 50 miles long, The Los Angeles River starts in the Santa Susana Mountains and travels directly through the centre of the city dividing downtown from the East side of Los Angeles before reaching the mouth of the river in Long Beach. I focused my adventures of the LA River on the portion that runs south of Los Feliz to the city of Vernon covering the entire area of downtown Los Angeles.

The river for me is a place where all is calm in the midst of chaos. Where the historic side of Los Angeles is still alive while the downtown portion is quickly being transformed into high priced lofts and coffee shops. For me, this is where the heart and soul of Los Angeles lies.

Known Gallery Show

Here are some pics of the show, but if you would like to see more action from the show, the homie Jesus has some here http://www.flickr.com/photos/89074432@N05/ 

Thanks to the Known Gallery, Push and George Thompson for letting me be apart of the show!

LA Showin love

Push

George Thompson

Me

Kaid Ashton x Known Gallery

Very excited to be having a show with Push and George Thompson at  

Known Gallery, Los Angeles this Saturday, October 20th.

Show runs until November 3rd.

http://knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/

Homeschool x 29: The Street Kids of EDSA x Kaid Ashton

Back to where it all started. A year and a half, 3 countries and 29 classes later, I found myself under the freeway beside one of  Manila's busiest roads back to where I taught the first class. The kids instantly remembered me and were very excited to get down on a collaboration together. I brought a face collage of photos, cut them up and let the kids do their thing to make frames for the photographs. We chose a blue wall beside the slum where they lived. This wall usually reeks like urine, has a boring faded blue exterior and needed some brightening up. The kids did an amazing job and made the photographs look fantastic with their bright colourful frames. 

Thanks to the Office of Culture and Design in Manila for the help and supplying the pizza. 

The kids got to pic the photograph they wanted and had creative freedom of the frames that they created.

Pizza lineup

The artists

Again thank you to all the parents for their help, but most of all to Olive who kept things in order even during the chaos of the pizza being handed out. Could not have done it without her!!!

Kaid Ashton Tees

New set of t-shirts. Please msg if you would like one. 

$30 XL, L, M and a few S.

Thanks for your support!

kaidashton@gmail.com

Kaput x Kaid Ashton