John O'Dwyer

John O’Dwyer took his first photograph – a rotting fencepost at the furthest edge of the backyard – with a Brownie Starlet in 1976. He was four years old. Since then, he has strolled across the states 29 times and around the world once, occasionally trespassing to record moments of introverted wanderlust.

Central to his work is a fascination with the retired – the former road, the sagging roof, the deserted shopping cart. Images of the ephemeral in their twilight solicit the viewers to create their own narratives, wonder what happened, and to implore them to not waste any time of our own.

John is a graduate of the USC Film School and a freelance creative director in Southern California where he and his original Kodak Brownie still seek crumbling fences on the far side of town.