Clint Woodside - Undercover Cars

While the recurring subject of these pictures is “cars” the real subject remains hidden in plain sight: the intimate, everyday human narratives swirling around the cars.The photos are alive with endearing residential architecture and everyday human habitation/habit (well-worn apartments and houses, painted garage doors, oil-stained driveways), and the familiar flora of Southern California (looming, disheveled palms; massive weird shrubs; dense, dark ficus trees; unruly ivy). As a series, Woodside’s “undercover cars” loosely documents a place and a time (the everyday vibe of Southern Cali- fornia, early 21st century) but they are also a record of his photographic obsession, a long-term attachment to a simple theme from which more complex themes can emerge and evolve. - Excerpt from Mike Slack’s essay in Undercover Cars: Clint Woodside