Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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Vern Evans, who works out of Los Angeles, has been shooting for a long time and can make anybody look great, even a cranky artist and a cranky public radio host:
(Artist Llyn Foulkes with KPCC's John Rabe at The Hammer. Credit: Vern Evans)
So I guess it's no surprise Evans managed to find something fresh at the most photographed event in the history of the known universe: this year's Comic-Con in San Diego.
Check out Vern Evans' complete photoset from SDCC 2015.
Evans was raised in Texas and, "spellbound with images taken by Arbus, Frank, Capa, Avedon, Lange and Cartier-Bresson," attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
(Vern Evans at SDCC with Evel Knievel cosplayer. Credit: Myles Pettengill)
When he's shooting, Evans says he asks the same thing of every subject: "Tell me your story," and the photo becomes "like a dream interpreted for its true meaning."