Being friends with Benjamin Askinas for a while now, I have come to understand his art and process — matchmaking narrative with photography. He’s set meticulous standards outside simple, ordained beauty photography and expands into the aberrant.

words by Kari Hendrick, photos by Dersu Rhodes

A quick eighteen hour jaunt to Pappy and Harriet's in Pioneertown this weekend for a friend's birthday served up these iPhone photos.