Photograph, Pigment print, Image size: 19x25cm, edition of 01/05. LA Continued is a departure from Apollonia Müller's previous exploration of photographing Los Angeles (Angels in Fall, On Edge), observing and photographing the city from above, detached from the world. Here in LA Continued, she urges connection, culture, history and language. Ultimately, it is about the collective moment, with all its persistent brutality and injustice, but also the longing for freedom and joy. In America, graffiti was used as a form of expression by political activists, and also by gangs such as the Savage Skulls, La Familia, and Savage Nomads to mark territory. But also Graffiti is one of the four main elements of hip hop culture (along with rapping, DJing, and break dancing).

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Apollonia Müller is a photographer artist. She received her Masters degree with honors in photography and film at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany, in 1992. Since 1995, she has lived in California and Europe, teaching and participating in residencies in China, New Mexico, Italy, California and Germany. She received a DAAD grant for American Samoa and Los Angeles, a Thomas Mann fellowship in Santa Monica, Los Angeles and a Getty Commission, Los Angeles among others. Interested in who we are and where we are coming from Müller has been documenting man‘s relationship with the landscape surrounding him. She has have been photographing Los Angeles and its peripheral environment over the past 25 years. She has explored the notion of urban landscape, natural landscape, cosmic landscape, and inner landscape. Apollonia Müller's work has been exhibited intensly in the US and Europe and her work has been placed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; The Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, Los Angeles among others. I published three monographs, „Angels in Fall by Kruse Publisher; „On Edge“ by Nazraeli Press; Timbercove by Nazraeli Press. You can find more information on the Peggy site and her website. https://karinapolloniamueller.com/