Los Angeles Rules

Gregory Bojorquez shoots where he lives. East Los Angeles, the neighborhood people have opinions about but rarely see clearly. He started photographing his neighbors in black and white, work that doesn’t announce itself but stays with you. LA Weekly noticed, and it felt inevitable—the kind of specificity that only comes from actually being somewhere, living in it.

What gets me is how he moved from that root into a wider range: youth, celebrities, rappers, musicians. Still grounded in proximity, still that understanding of light and the right moment. And then there’s the side thing—life tips on his website, a new one with every reload. It’s the photographer’s version of something I’ve always respected in creative people: the willingness to share an actual thought, not the performance version. A photograph and a sentence. That’s the thing.