Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
In the back of a 1952 Chevy Deluxe, a woman brushes back her hair, her heavily lined eyes closed in a moment of quiet, the words No Soy De Ti ( I don t belong to you ) inked across her chest. Mary is a member of the Vintage Ladies Car Club, a Chicana lowriding community based in Los Angeles County, and she s one of the many lowriders photographer Kristin Bedford features in her five-year body of work Cruise Night, which portrays the interiority of both her subjects and their cars. Cruise Night, recently published as a book, is a compendium of the vibrant velvet and leather interiors, wire wheels and dazzling paint jobs that make up the cars of the Mexican American lowriding community, bathed in Los Angeles idiosyncratic golden hours or the artificial glow of ambient light at night.