Locations from a Movie I Never Made

Scenes from untold cinematic stories, culled from location scouting assignments and travel across five continents

American photographer and location scout David Graham has visualized ideas, locations, and style for more than two decades. Directors and photographers he has worked with include Patrick Demarchelier, Paul Greengrass, Steven Klein, Ang Lee, Peter Lindbergh, Michael Mann, Gus Van Sant, Todd Haynes, and Steven Spielberg to name a few. In his own work, Graham has developed a distinctive style that combines the formal eye of a location scout with the connective facility of a street photographer. A traveler at heart, Graham intuits the visual appeal of both local and foreign landscapes, enriching his vision along the way. Graham’s project The Last Car, focusing on modern day gay life in Mexico City, and mentored by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, was published by Kehrer Verlag 2017.

Locations include: USA; Mexico; Guatemala; Vietnam; Spain; Germany; United Kingdom; iceland; Poland; Namibia; Chile

American photographer and location scout David Graham has visualized ideas, locations, and style for more than two decades. Directors and photographers he has worked with include Patrick Demarchelier, Paul Greengrass, Steven Klein, Ang Lee, Peter Lindbergh, Michael Mann, Gus Van Sant, Todd Haynes, and Steven Spielberg to name a few.

Leah Modigliani (b. 1970) is an American and Canadian artist living in Philadelphia. She is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is an artist and scholar with transdisciplinary engagements informed by fine arts, art history, critical geography, urban studies, and politics.