Inside the Enigmatic Mind of Photographer Larry Sultan

Miss Rosen | AnOther | 23rd February 2026

Sultan’s interest in photography was sparked by billboard imagery. Later, his career turned to another piece of Americana – the suburbs of Los Angeles. These houses were often depicted, wrongly in Sultan’s view, as “generic structures for generic lives”. What he saw was “the complex and often dark and bewildering world of suburban life.” His images of bedrooms, backyards and fences, capture this ambiguity. Said he, “I don’t know what to make of things, and I like to give a viewer the same kind of openness.”