How About Never

Jerry Hsu

MACK

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Bringing together photographs Jerry Hsu has made in Los Angeles since 2011, How About Never is occupied with the almost sentient character of the city. Hsu’s photographs are sensitively attuned to the contradictions of the place, entangling allusions to hope and despair, beauty and pain in an atmospheric and uncanny sequence. Images of disfigured fences and physical injuries are interwoven with spontaneous compositions: a discarded toilet, a blood-stained mattress, crashed cars, a bank ominously aflame. Portraits seek an intimacy with their subjects among the disrepair and cruelty of the urban environment. These disparate and dissonant strands reach a beguiling harmony, together looking to destruction as a potential source of change and rebirth. 

Debossed hardcover
20.5 x 27.5 cm, 176 pages
August 2026

ISBN 978-1-917651-68-4
€55 £45 US$65 AU$105

The signed edition includes an extra image plate signed by Jerry Hsu and glued into the inside back cover.

‘Hsu leaned into his esoteric street photography practice, developing an outsider’s eye for LA’s rhythms.’ Cultured

‘There’s a feeling of optimism underlying the almost electric fatalism of these works—tied together by a Larry Clark-like ability to shoot straight to the heart of the raw and every day.’ W magazine best art books 2026

‘A fresh perspective on the beauty and chaos of a city that has long inspired visual artists.’ Highsnobiety

‘An active, restless participant in the city’s streets, Hsu finds people and moments that might otherwise slip by unnoticed.’ i-D

‘Subtle humor, absurdity, and a certain melancholy permeate the entire work, giving these ordinary scenes an almost cinematic dimension.’ Guillotine

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