Toward a Hyperreality is a body of work exploring urban space and the shifting identity of the contemporary American city through photography of downtown Los Angeles and the Las Vegas Strip. The work investigates the interplay between this reality and fiction, examining questions about progress, technology, consumerism, and socio-economic disparities. Drawing from the legacy of 1960s documentary photography movements, Baker’s work describes a landscape increasingly constructed to create the illusion of a shared reality while perpetuating the erasure of the public realm. The photographs reveal how hyperreality operates as a subtle, poetic condition where architecture and facades conceal labor, history, and ideology.