Elmo Tide Trade Paper player’s turn ends and cards

player’s turn ends and cards remain in the same position

Balet’s book became a gift to many more children

This project came about in early 2011

and now in its reissue edition

yet they’re shot entirely in Los Angeles

Elmo Tide Trade Paper player’s turn ends and cardsEnigmatic photographer Elmo Tide has photographed odd and intriguing characters of late night revelry for the past decade. Preferring to remain completely anonymous in order to keep the focus on his work and not on himself, he publishes his photographs under his arbitrarily invented pseudonym of bizarre misdirection. Tide works usually under the cover of nightfall, composing high contrast black and white mise en scnes that appear almost as if they're