Taro Hirano – Los Angeles Car Club TOO MUCH funded by the Cultural Foundation

funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

‘Haute couture’s chief scientist’

On the slippery margins between art and life

Markings was a collaboration between artist Nedko Solakov (artist) and curator Ellen Blumenstein

Melanie Irwin

Taro Hirano – Los Angeles Car Club TOO MUCH funded by the Cultural FoundationJapanese photographer Taro Hirano is probably best know for his book Pool originally published in 2005 (reprinted in 2016). Beautifully simple photographs of empty and abandoned swimming pools used by skaters in Southern California. He brings the same architectural style to another American motif, car culture, photographing cars of all stripes (trucks, sports cars and 'beaters' are all given equal footing) as they speed down Los Angeles highways shot