Douglas Hill

Born in London, 1950. Moved to New York in 1955, then Los Angeles in 1968, where I now live.Poured in Place: Every Bridge Over the Los Angeles RiverThe 501 Freeway carries thousands of vehicles east and west, their drivers perhaps barely aware of the cement-lined gouge with the trickle of water running through the middle of it known as the Los Angeles River. The river and the freeway connect communities and divide them. They also help define them. The 501 is a recent addition to the freeway system, completed in 1993. The curved causeway conveys westbound traffic toward the northbound 710. From below, the sound of rushing traffic is constant. Despite the noise the riverbed is calm, a calm broken only by the occasional cyclist riding through, while in the distance firefighters run their trucks through a course demarcated by bright orange cones. What appears to be rain turns out to be fine dust dislodged by the cars and trucks overhead. This photograph is one of hundreds taken during 2005 of all 72 street bridges, freeway bridges, railway bridges, footbridges and pipelines that cross the Los Angeles River between Riverside Drive at the edge of Griffith Park and Queens Way at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach.

Studied at UCLA and Cal Arts

"Best of Show" International Photography Awards - London, UK - October 2006

"Utopia" Millard Sheets Gallery - Los Angeles, CA - September 2006

"Snap to Grid" Los Angeles Center for Digital Art - Los Angeles, CA - September 2006

"New Acquisitions" Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA - October 2004

"Personal.ads" Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA - January 2004

"L.A. Light" curated by the Pasadena Museum of California Art & presented at California Tan, Los Angeles, CA - December 2001-December 2002

"Architecture in Photography" Stephen K. Josephsberg Gallery, Portland, OR - October 2000

"Concrete River" Los Angeles River Center, Los Angeles, CA - February-March 2000

"American Landscapes" The Simon Gallery, Montclair, NJ - April 1982

"The New Color" International Center for Photography, New York, NY - October 1981

"Year 200: New Views of Los Angeles" Mount Saint Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA - February 1981

"Farbwerke" Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland - August 1980

"Fotographie im Alltag Amerikas" Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland - September 1979

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