To this day, Dean Sameshima is somewhat of a legend embedded within the (often) sorted tales of a Los Angeles Art World of the past. Based now in Berlin, his exhibition being along, represents a triumphant return not only to his home town, but also to his roots as a photographer (or documentarian, as he often refers to his practice). Sameshima decisively locates his impulse to document in a fear of loss - of losing something important. Social activities, no matter how circumstantially taboo, shape the physical world we live in. His new series of photographs, being alone, show (mostly) empty spaces designed and built for certain (social) activities, but also document an deeply endangered breed of public space. While similar spaces have all but completely disappeared in the US, the photographs of being alone, taken in Berlin, document a different kind of para-technology social potential.