When it comes to Los Angeles, has seen it all. The photographer, director, fashion label head, and entrepreneur was there when DIY punk rock and new wave culture spread throughout the southland in the ‘80s. He was there during from a niche hood sub-genre to a global dominating force.
He watched the landscape and skyline of Los Angeles grow and transform into what it is today. Oriol, who has taken many an iconic LA photo (including the best documentation of the LA fingers symbol in our opinion), first got into photography at the urging of his father, who gave him an old camera and told him to document his experiences as a tour manager for ‘90s hip hop groups like House of Pain and Cypress Hill. Oriol hasn’t put his camera down since.
During the in 2020, Oriol was where he’s always been — in the streets with the people, finger on the pulse, documenting it all with his camera. Even a rubber bullet to the chest during the protests couldn’t dissuade him from telling the story of the streets. Throughout his career, LA isn’t the only place Oriol has been; he’s established a name for himself that spans countries and cultures, whether that means documenting the burgeoning Japanese low-rider scene, taking portraits of everyone from Al Pacino and Robert De Niro to Kim Kardashian, Chloe Grace Moretz, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg, to working with big brands like Nike and Cadillac.
His work has been shown in galleries and institutions worldwide, establishing himself as one of the.