Photographer of the Day: Anne Lass
Anne Lass’s series Geography of Nowhere is amazing. All of the places photographed are in the U.S., but she is from Germany. They are almost light and airy making them so easy to look at for a long time because they are so beautiful. The subject matter in contrast though is very conflictive and shows the viewer places that have no purpose and look forgotten or simply ignored. Below is the statement from Anne Lass about this series.
“The project “Geography of Nowhere” was photographed in the United States, where I resided the past couple of years besides living in Germany. In my work, I try convert my personal impression of parts of the US- American living space into a panopticon of absent self-situatedness. It is the absence of any reference of place and the randomness of shown locations that conducts me to the paradox title Geography of Nowhere. In this geography, the viewer is left to the sense of a misanthropic and cold atmosphere, caused by the dictate of ever repeating functional arrangements in the landscape. Especially in the urban cityscapes, I find the conflict areas that influence my images: conflicts of functionalism and individual development, the association with nature, the concourse of construction and vastness and, last but not least, to human interaction.”
copyright Anne Lass
