Hinge Gun Spliff

Landscape artists are loved by our parents, grandparents, guidance counselors, and grade school peers who are now cops.

Here, the mountains scream you are not doing enough, not doing it the way WE expect.

Hear them.

I desperately wanted to run away from all of them.

Even though I couldn’t wait to run from the white rose, I still find myself wanting their love in cold sweat, years later - with more years to come - never ending - desperately wanting to be seen by the landscape that didn't see me. So now I try to find that love by moving through the American landscape with an 8x10 camera loaded with color film. Traversing a landscape in a place that is so much easier to just hate in its past and in our failed future. But, here I still feel a chance for love, a delusion for love, a hope for love in the mirage at the bottom of the valley that houses the river which we all must cross when the swans sing.

– Ian Kline

Ian Kline (b. 1994) is a photographer from York, PA—the first capital of the United States, or the fourth, depending on who you ask. Either way, there is still a twelve-foot-tall man lifting a barbell spinning in circles above the Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Highway, which is important to Ian’s nightmares. Kline received his MFA from the Yale School of Art, where he was awarded the Richard Benson Prize in 2022 and received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017 where he was awarded the Meyer Photography Fellowship. Ian has had solo exhibitions at Neue Welt (Nashville, TN, 2026), Silver Eye Center for Photography (Pittsburgh, PA, 2019), Space Place (Nizhniy Tagil, Russia, 2018), and Skylab Gallery (Columbus, OH, 2016). He has had two-person exhibitions at 175 E Broadway (New York, NY, 2023), The Longwood Center for Visual Arts (Farmville, VA, 2020), The Java Project (Brooklyn, NY, 2018), and Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD, 2018). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Light Work (Syracuse, NY, 2026), Strata Editions (Livingston, MT, 2025), The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME, 2025), Berlin Art Institute (Berlin, Germany, 2024), David Zwirner (New York, NY, 2022), and UTA Artist Space (Beverly Hills, CA, 2022) among others. Kline has published eleven artist’s books, and is included in the permanent collection of MoMA’s Library. In 2020 Deadbeat Club Press published Rabbit/Hare, a collaborative project with David Billet. From 2021–22, he founded and directed Gallery G15, a curatorial experiment located in a basement labyrinth in Connecticut. He was a 2023 recipient of The Brooklyn Darkroom residency, was included in Cultured Mag’s 2024 Young Photographers List, was a 2025 Light Work artist in residence, and was a 2026 artist in residence at The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation. He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY waiting for the world to end and working on a book with Deadbeat Club Press that will be out in 2027.