Gerd Ludwigのインスタグラム(gerdludwig) - 8月31日 01時17分

Here is a photograph from my book Sleeping Cars, which was published by Edition Lammerhuber earlier this year (signed copies from my website). In Los Angeles County there are more than seven million registered vehicles. They work all day to create two of LA’s most infamous commodities: traffic jams and smog. But where do all those cars go to rest? To answer that question I crisscrossed Los Angeles for several years.

By nature, I am a night owl. In what Kafka called his most productive hours, when dream and reality meet, I go out to photograph sleeping cars. My cars are loners. They command their own space and enjoy showing off their presence. Like a devoted bird watcher I have learned to recognize their sleeping patterns. With voyeuristic pleasure I’ve spied on them in their nightgowns. I’ve watched some sleep in the nude; some take afternoon naps and the few lucky ones get to sleep together.

A few times the police have stopped me in my work, wondering what I was doing out in the streets in the middle of the night. Was I a Peeping Tom or even worse, a paparazzo? The cars in this project are photographed as I find them, I generally don’t like to disturb them in their slumber.

Follow @sleepingcars to see many more images of sleeping cars in LA and around the world.

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