Ann Arbor, Michigan
San Francisco, California
New York, New York
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coney Island, New York
New Orleans, Louisiana
Seattle, Washington
Cleveland, Ohio
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Portland, Oregon
Chicago, Illinois
San Francisco, California
New York, New York
Los Angeles, California
Boston, Massachusetts
…continue through the neon circus, now that dusk is falling, we will exit & return to a different world, one which we did not leave, but we must leave behind…
It can be funny how the passage of time can change how one looks at a photograph, or a series of photographs. These things we make, these slivers of time and space we steal forever, somehow still lack a complete sense of permanence. Like the photograph itself & what the full-frame excludes, our relationship to its content becomes subjective to time.
As I look back on this series now, I choose to show the times I would endeavor to create a portrait that was as much of the scene as its subject. It is both that these people interact with these places & how they are interacting. I feel at this time & point, the definition of being an ‘American’ is as fraught as ever, making the act of defining America in photographs very much about the relationship between the people & the place.
Some of these are friends, some of these are strangers, but it’s this particular gallery as a whole that seems to be more about this iteration of the project, which I suppose is more akin to the idea of a society than anything.
—cs, 08/2021