Sit, swim, sleep, cycle, skate: the sublime poetry of the everyday – in pictures

Venice Beach, California, 1983

The earliest work featured in the show is from 1983, when Steinmetz, straight out of college, headed to the west coast and was soon walking the streets of Los Angeles with Garry Winogrand. ‘I moved to Los Angeles in 1983 when I was 22 years old and stayed for a year,’ says Steinmetz. ‘I came to know the great photographer Garry Winogrand who was living there, and we went out to photograph together on occasion’