Curriculum
He was born in Buffalo, New York, but Gregory Halpern found the light in California. His award-winning photobook ZZYZX (2016), named for a village and former mineral springs spa near the Mojave Desert, presents images that move westward across Los Angeles in a five-year chronicle of vivid, seemingly unrelated scenes—a blue tarp punched with holes, a smoky mountainside, a staircase leading nowhere, a couple towing carts of their possessions. Whether in Los Angeles or Rochester, where he lives, Halpern pursues the American themes of isolation and manifest destiny with a sense of enigmatic, open-ended beauty.
