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A rooftop billboard of a woman’s eyes watches from a Las Vegas tower between two facades at dawn

Vegas. Eye candy.

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The Eye. Paul “IX” Kemppainen.

The Candy. Sin City, NV.

Vegas is infamous for its secrets. One of its best:

Every morning, the rising sun and the city’s neon share the sky for about nine minutes. That narrow hunting window, which IX calls , is the ultimate high. Sin City is the best place on Earth to accelerate one’s mastery of the visual arts.

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IX in sunglasses and a dark hoodie, looking down a crowded street
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Rouge

Vegas in full color. Wearing nothing else.

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It’s lonely in the dark.

Fuel IX’s next quest with a word of encouragement or his favorite dark roast.
Get a full-res Vegas icon in return.

Noir

Vegas in black and white. Some things are better in the dark.

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Caught red-handed

Strip Search

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Workshops. Coming soon.

Some things are better shared. Vegas’ is one of them.

Save me a spot

More. Eye. Candy.

Short (and sweet) film

The Heist

“Stacked” Exhibition in work

One Vegas icon in the foreground, another behind it. Perfect light.

Dedicated to IX’s friend Pablo Odriozola.
He. Lived. Bold.

Portfolio in progress

Vegas in transition.

New icons under construction.
The skyline we know is quickly becoming a memory.

Steel frame of a stadium under construction, workers on the beams, Mandalay Bay behind
“Ballpark Rising”Athletics ballpark site · Mandalay BayView & buy high resolution print
Guitar-shaped hotel tower rising between two tower cranes
“Six Strings of Steel”Hard Rock, former Mirage siteView & buy high resolution print

Let’s. Play.