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Tracy Hills: An Exploration by Two Photographers will include Yogan Muller and Ryan McIntire and their work on the Tracey Hills, California development. Between 2021 and 2024, McIntosh and Muller jointly photographed Tracy Hills, a new master-planned community of nearly 5,000 homes sprawling across the rolling hills of California’s Central Valley, two hours east of San Francisco. Their work offers a timely reflection on the interlocking crises – housing, water, and climate – shaping the Golden State, and how architecture does or does not support our ecological needs.
Yogan Muller is a French photographer, first-generation graduate, and educator. His work engages with the ecological crisis and its impact on landscapes and communities. In October 2019, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Counterforce Lab, a group of ecologically-minded artists and designers led by Rebeca Méndez at the UCLA Design Media Arts (DMA) Department. He started teaching at DMA in January 2020. Occasionally, Yogan has worked as a studio assistant for fine art photographer Mona Kuhn, and designer Rebeca Méndez in Los Angeles. In November 2018, he graduated with a practice-based PhD in Photography from ENSAV La Cambre and Université libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium. In his thesis, he explores how photography brought us into the Anthropocene and conducted fieldwork in Southwest Iceland. Yogan has taught at UCLA Design Media Arts, and the Penumbra Foundation in NYC.
Ryan McIntosh is a Los Angeles-based artist and photographer. He received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and BFA from University of Arizona. Ryan works exclusively with the 8”x10” and 11”x14” large format view cameras, committed himself to the masterful craft of producing only handmade silver chloride photographs. All photographs are hand crafted in a traditional wet darkroom utilizing only vintage photo paper and chemistry dating as far back as the 1940’s. Nearly twenty years since making his first photograph, Ryan continues working primarily in the natural landscape, with an ever-growing level of concern and awareness towards the landscape and how it’s conveyed today to fit into the contemporary consciousness and evolving dialogue. His primary focus in photography is exploring mankind’s impact on the natural environment and the relationship humans have with the remaining wilderness on our planet.
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