Cerro Gordo is a photographic study of Los Angeles created over the span of a year. Inspired by how the city was captured in the motion pictures of the 1970s and early 1980s, the photographer and director David Black explores noir themes that cut through L.A.'s sunshine veneer, crafting photographs that examine the complex existence between light and dark and its role in our modern mythologies. Cerro Gordo visually apprehends the archetypes and identity of Los Angeles in popular culture and exposes the city's paradoxical bent as a land of dreams and disillusionment. The pictures include a rider on a horse silhouetted against a sunset, a group of figures in white in an empty concrete river channel under power lines, an aerial view of rippled red desert and a man arching backwards in a cloud of dust beside an oil derrick.