Mainlining Americana with photographer and filmmaker Eddie O'Keefe

LA-based creative Eddie O’Keefe is principally a filmmaker – he produces stunning homages to early 1960s American culture – but his photographic work is a sight to behold. Firmly rooted in the past and bubbling seductively with sun-kissed Americana, Eddie focusses his lens on subjects as mundane as car windscreens and old chairs (and of course, the odd blood-soaked cheerleader), gently persuading you that you’re viewing a record of an era when your parents were out on the razzle. Sure, the cynic in me thinks that there’s a legion of Intagrammers who think they’re making this kind of heady, nostalgic artwork on a daily basis, but Eddie’s the real deal, he’s recreating this grainy, seductive world for himself, and this is the good stuff!

If this floats your boat – and let’s face it, how could it not – Eddie’s got a book of his work, Young Ideas that you should defnintely try and lay your mitts on.