Playboys

By Robert Yager, Edited by Pouria Khojastehpay for 550BC Publishing, 2022. Original Edition limited to 550 copies. 260 pages, 32 x 22cm. Condition : Excellent.

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“Los Angeles street gangs. The Virgin of Guadalupe, with pious hands, looks down mournfully on the corner of Pico Boulevard from a mural painted on a liquor store facade. There is an angel beneath her and a spiral of barbed wire in the background. As the camera clicks, two figures step out of the store – “Saca-me una foto…” They were Muerto and Midget, two members of the notorious street gang The WestSide Playboys 13, and this was their neighborhood. It was 1992, the most violent year in the history of Los Angeles when British photographer Robert Yager began walking the neighborhoods of central LA…”