Jerry Hsu on the Downtown LA Shot That Stopped Him Cold

Jerry Hsu talks through a single street frame shot in downtown LA around 2011-12: black smoke billowing from a street grate, caught while walking with a camera. The Guardian's ongoing 'best photograph' series. Hsu came to photography via skateboarding culture; the piece is mostly him reflecting on shooting instinctively and the strangeness of LA as a place to wander.