Campbell’s photograph, “Manzanita,” taken in Idyllwild, CA was recently featured in Kim Abeles’ installation “The Map is the Legend (Equidistant Inland Empire)” as part of “In the Sunshine of Neglect: Defining Photographs and Radical Experiments in Inland Southern California, 1950 to the Present” a simultaneous two-part exhibition at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography and the Riverside Art Museum. On view from January 19 through April 28, 2019 it was organized by curator by Douglas McCulloh.

Freedom can be found at the margins. That is the theme of a first-ever survey exhibition that presents the title’s territory on the eastern edge of the Los Angeles Basin as an experimental tabula rasa playground for photographers, where nothing was at stake, so everything was possible. Inland Southern California is a region of 4.5 million people, but it is also a periphery. Established photographic artists and rising experimentalists have long used the area as a laboratory. The visions of these artists—experimental, hard-eyed, and imaginative—influenced the course of contemporary art and photography. In the Sunshine of Neglect is the first exhibition to survey this remarkable history.