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Pretty site specific typography installation

(via f3tisha)

Just amazing. Photo by Amy Stein from her Stranded collection.

‘Beginning with the government’s failed response to the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, the American people suffered through a series of devastating corruptions of their traditional structures of support. Stranded is a meditation on the despondence of the American psyche as certainty collapsed and faith eroded during the second term of the Bush administration. The images in this series live in the road photography tradition of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld, but where they sought to capture the American experience through “the journey,” my photographs seek to tell the story of this time through the journey interrupted.

For this series I drive across America for weeks at a time photographing stranded motorists. Finding subjects is a matter of chance and every encounter is tense because of the unusual circumstances of our interaction and the inherent danger of the roadside environment. Most of the photographs from this series can be found on a Google Map that documents my travels across the US. ‘

Her work reminds me of Katy Grannan. Similar portrait and compositional make up. Although Katy’s work focuses more on the person in the picture in an almost sinister, unsettling fashion, very intimate photos. Where as Amy’s work also focuses on the setting and architecture.