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# Las Vegas
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/las-vegas/
- Published: 2007-06-15T19:33:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-06T10:56:15.000Z
- Description: The theorist in me gets really excited about Las Vegas. So does the photographer in me.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Photography

I've now visited Las Vegas three times and I still don't know what to think. I still believe that Las Vegas is a contradiction: it shouldn't exist and yet it does. The theorist in me gets really excited about Las Vegas. So does the photographer in me. On one visit I spent three days exploring and documenting different corners of the city, from the suburbs to the gritty underbelly.

![Las Vegas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-1.jpg)

The Excalibur Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

![Venice, Las Vegas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-2.jpg)

Venice, Las Vegas

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-4.jpg)

Las Vegas after dark

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/12/las-vegas-25.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-5.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-3.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-6.jpg)

New York (left) and Paris (middle and right) Las Vegas

![Las Vegas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-7.jpg)

Dirty realism in Las Vegas

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-8.jpg)

Dirty realism in Las Vegas

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-9.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-10.jpg)

Las Vegas from above

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-11.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-12.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-13.jpg)

A typical Las Vegas suburb. Notice the absence of a front door

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-17.jpg)

What IS allowed?

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-14.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-15.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-16.jpg)

There are many trailer parks in Las Vegas where the lesser paid workers live

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-21.jpg)

As Las Vegas grows it expands into the surrounding desert

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-18.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-20.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-19.jpg)

Gated communities in Las Vegas

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/las-vegas-22.jpg)

Dirty dirty realism in Las Vegas

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