STOP WAR
Americana was born during a long road trip that lasted nearly three months and covered over 20,000 km across the United States together with a friend and colleague photographer. For most of the trip, we literally lived out of our car, including lunches, dinners, and nights spent roughing it as best we could on the seats.
My initial idea for the documentary project was to capture the American periphery, characterized by its sense of unease and the strong contemporary visual influences we all know so well. However, the sheer vastness of this incredible landscape and the variety of texture and color ultimately overrode my original intentions.
Arid deserts colored by metallic dust—true ‘rainbows of atoms,’ as a roadside sign read—burning sunsets over highways in a yellow-tinted desert, ghost towns, and flooded lands creating a surreal and metaphorical landscape. Old shacks, old bricks. Chaotic cities, starry skies. Lakes, seas, oceans. Mirages appearing in desolate places, massive mountain ranges to cross…
