An ongoing photographic archive

Bridges
of LA

Kevin Break documents the bridges and viaducts that stitch Los Angeles together—monuments in fog, flood, demolition, construction and electric night.

Broadway Bridge as a storm clears at night, photographed by Kevin Break
Broadway Bridge · Los Angeles

Los Angeles, observed over time

A city carried by concrete, steel and memory.

For decades, Kevin Break has returned to the crossings of the Los Angeles River and the elevated arteries around downtown. These are not only engineering works. They are stages for weather, traffic, industry, civic change and the stubborn romance of the city after dark.

The archive includes the Sixth Street Viaduct before and during demolition, the Broadway and Spring Street bridges in storms, Riverside Drive construction, the Main and Macy Street crossings, and overlooked structures beneath the freeways.

79Photographs
20+Years observed
LARiver & downtown
Demolition of the old Sixth Street Bridge by Kevin Break

A disappearing landmark

The old Sixth Street Bridge, 1932–2016

Kevin photographed the beloved concrete arches in weather and darkness, then followed the bridge through demolition. The result is both a visual record and a personal farewell to one of downtown Los Angeles’s most recognizable structures.

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