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SH: Another important figure in photography, Robert Adams, writes about the handmade memento cross you sent him, because it was reminiscent of the memorials from ancient Hispanic cemeteries along the Rio Grande Valley that he photographed. He describes such places as one could describe your own vision of Los Angeles—as “places of hard, dry sadness, but also of promise.” Do you see promise in your photographs of Los Angeles?
AH: I want to mention that the cross I gave Bob is from one piece of wood split in half, and I made two from the same small branch. He has one and I have the other—a nice pairing.
But you have to love what you’re photographing. Or if you don’t want to use that word, you could use another: embrace. You have to embrace what you’re looking at, what you’re photographing. So, in that sense, yes, I am embracing hope.
