Born in Los Angeles, California. Graduate of California Institute of the Arts; BFA in art and design, majored in photography.

Designed the film titles for over thirty films, including Boogie Nights, The Ring, and Punch-Drunk Love. Author of the nonfiction book Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers; editor of Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis, and J. Paul de River’s The Sexual Criminal. Participant in the “Autumn Stories” filmmaker residency program at the Royaumont Abbaye & Fondation, co-sponsored by the Writers Guild, the Franco-American Cultural Fund and the Ile de France Film Commission.

Writer, producer and director of the 2014 feature film Redlands. Photography books: LAX: Photographs of Los Angeles 1980–84 (2015) and Nude Reagan (2016).

His latest books: a series of zines called “Atlas”; Ghost Variations, a series of photographs showing an aimless, enigmatic state of wandering in the California desert; Punk Daze: LA 1977-84, which mixes an energetic street photography aesthetic with an eye for the absurd; Riviera: Photographs of Palm Springs, which documents the eerie fragments of existence left behind in one city; and Death to the Fascist Insect, a compilation of the writings and transcribed recordings of the Symbionese Liberation Army (1973–75), a radical left-wing group based in the Bay Area of California.

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