photography
text by JULIANA BALESTIN
Sam Falls is a member of the new generation of photographers who push the limits of the medium beyond the mechanical limitations of the camera. When he does use a camera — often it’s a large-format one — Falls looks at the world from a very personal, almost romantic perspective, as his pictures of his horse and his mother and the close-ups of the window or a corner of a room all duly attest. Falls’s expansive, everything-is-important philosophy allows him to work with different materials and a wide variety of subjects. For “Somewhere To Go,” his first exhibition at the OHWOW project space in Los Angeles, he exposed fabrics and colored construction paper to light, using…
