Stephen Tamiesie‘s photographs are all the inspiration you need to rent a crappy truck and hit the road for a cross-country U.S. road tip. Images from his latest series Signs of American Life are melancholic, a result of the uncertain relationship between intimacy and distance in the vast American West. A brick wall, a gas station sign, a bench, the body of a dying car, a human figure dotting the landscape: common and absurd objects of Americana against dramatic Western landscapes create a story composed of beauty as well as a sense of humor .
Tamiesie’s work was recently part of a group show at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan. A print of Two Trees can be purchased at 52 Editions.
Jocelyn Lee