AXIS Linda Kasian · iPhotographyHomes A mirror, held against a building, does something a camera alone cannot: it builds a space that was never there. Axis is a series of single-frame photographs made on the streets of Century City, Los Angeles. Using a first-surface mirror held against the city's glass and steel towers, each image folds real architecture back on itself — doubling, splitting, and reassembling it into spaces that cannot physically exist. A tower becomes a portal. A passage becomes a corridor with no end. A facade dissolves into a structure that defies gravity and logic. There is no compositing here, and no digital manipulation. Everything was constructed in-camera, in a single exposure, the way the mirror saw it. What looks impossible is real — it simply never existed until the moment the shutter opened. I think of it as architecture in the language of dreams: familiar buildings, recombined into the kind of folding, recursive spaces that shouldn't hold together but somehow do. The work is less about reflection than invention — using the mirror not to copy the city, but to imagine new ones inside it. Published photographer, Vanity Fair 2025.