United States of A.
Missing the dream
Missing the dream
This is not a touristic tour of the United States. Or, maybe it is. Focusing on emblematic images of this country (being on the road, the cinematographic scenery, the West), human figure is rarely present, only to mock reality: an elderly couple posing in front of millenary rocks, near Las Vegas, and latino kids and families playing in the waves of Santa Monica.
I initially gathered those shots to represent my various trips to the US, but later realized that these could only be the vision of an outsider, raised with the movies and the TV shows, conscious of harsher reality (the failed American Dream), but obsessed with it nonetheless.