Known for her striking documentation of American youth culture and for her revealing celebrity portraits – she’s had everyone from Texan teenage wolf packs to Rick Owens in front of her lens – bicoastal photographer and filmmaker Danielle Levitt reveals an innate sense of storytelling with this candid short that follows a young couple living on the streets of Venice, California. Levitt shot skateboarder Josiah and his girlfriend, Taylor, back in 2012, eager to give the compelling young subjects an opportunity to voice the reasons for their life choices, as well as sharing the joys and pressures they experience.  

"Josiah was stealing the show at the skate park in Venice,” Levitt recalls of her first encounter with the couple. “I started speaking to Taylor, and there’s just this amazing tenderness – a real sense of love between the two that I wanted to capture.”  

From Dazed to i-D and GQ, Levitt’s galvanizing editorial work delves into film with a hurricane sense of energy. “The moving image is an incredible force,” she says. “The storyline in a still image is real and honest, too, but when you hear an image speak, it changes everything."