CAREY HAMBLETT’s multi-media work documenting the city of Los Angeles has been exhibited in London & L.A. & New York.   

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……in the shadows of the towers of downtown lies the sprawl of industry & the soul of the city embedded in asphalt concrete glass steel….. sublime beauty haunts a dystopian vision of the commercial districts & industrial lots of the great metropolis of los angeles ……..

‘I drove the  LA  streets  with my camera creating a bank of urban images for my CGI film project Generation City.  One Sunday at dawn, after a night when heavy rain had hit the city, I drove down from the Malibu mountains along PCH and turned off the highway, through Santa Monica up Pico toward the Staples Centre. The clarity of the light was phenomenal. The diffusion of smog non-existent. I was searching for the soul of the city. Something told me I would find it in the vacant lots, the industrial buildings, the colorful sprawl of the fashion district, the flowers district and the commercial district spreading south and east from the towers of LA downtown. The streets were eerily devoid of traffic. Driving a weathered Chrysler on that morning I had no idea of another kind of wreckage that haunted the streets.            Both to left and right from under the government issue blue tarpaulins the homeless were crawling out of their shelters into that strangely blazing light – thousands of itinerants sleeping rough in the city of angels every night, wandering, wasted. I had not come to tell their story but, by default, chronicled the backdrop against which they lived. And I continue to photograph these  streets – tarmac warped by heat, the brutal aesthetic of the buildings,  ice cream pastels, the primary Latino colors, the hard edges and wide skies …………this is the LA edge.’