Open now and running through 'til October the 17th at M+B Gallery in Los Angeles is an exhibition of great colour photographs by Andrew Bush entitled 'Vector Portraits'.

Vector Portraits is Andrew Bush’s series from 1989 to 1997, shot in and around Los Angeles using his car as a tripod and capturing Angelenos vis-à-vis their unique relationships with their cars.

The series began in 1989 after Bush graduated from Yale with an MFA in Photography and moved to Los Angeles. Struck by the city’s “great relationship between people and their car,” Bush attached a medium format camera to his passenger seat with a strobe light and a shutter release cable and drove the city streets and freeways. Either stopped in traffic or moving at speeds of 20 to 70 miles an hour, Bush’s method included “moving in parallel with the person next to [him], as a way of coming into their world” and then releasing the shutter.

The essence of what makes these images appealing is that they are a prolonged version of the awkward eye contact frequently made while driving. Undeniably voyeuristic and satisfying, the exhibition gives you the opportunity to examine strangers minutely while remaining anonymous, and through this, Bush offers up a slice of Los Angeles life at its most mundane and telling.

If you cant make it to the exhibition, get your hands on a copy of the book, 'Andrew Bush: Vector Portraits' published by Yale University Press.