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"Los Angeles is the setting for Hans-Christian SCHINK's group of works 'LA,' created during a Villa Aurora fellowship in 2002 and visits the following year. Starting from an extremely precise investigation of the no man's land on the periphery of the megalopolis, which he bathes in a glistening light, the German photographer generates a contrast of nocturnal panoramic shots with extreme cropped enlargements that only hint at traces of urban spaces of action. In this extreme overcoming of distance and the associated reduction of photographic authenticity, he succeeds in creating pictorial solutions that, in their abstraction, are more reminiscent of painting than photography." (© Fotohof, 2004)