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Through this immersive process, Bedford grew to understand how lowriding “is passed down between generations…is part of every rite of passage… is in blood.” “If you see a photograph from inside the car, it exists because I was invited to be there,” the LA-based photographer explains. Beyond glistening paint jobs and tactile car interiors, we see lowriders in intricate makeup, ornate suits, or revealing their bare chests, painted with car tattoos.īedford’s images were made as a result of intimate relationships with her subjects, captured using a fixed camera lens. Cruise Night records the wealth of lowrider self-expression – “transforming a car is integral to being seen and heard,” she explains.

Made over five years, Bedford’s photobook captures the vibrant lives of LA’s lowriders – a Mexican American community who have been cruising down California boulevards for decades.

“Lowriding is who I am… It makes me whole,” says Tina Martinez Perez, one of Los Angeles’ lowriders, in Kristin Bedford’s new book, Cruise Night, published by Damiani. The LA-based photographer bears witness to the glitz and glamour of Mexican American lowrider culture, as well as its intimacy, communality, and history