Jackson
Faulkner
In
the upper Midwest of the United
States, cradled by the Great Lakes, is
America’s Rust Belt. One of the many
‘has-been’ regions of the country, the Rust Belt is
an industrial cemetery that mocks the American
Dream with its abandoned factories, automo-
biles, train tracks and structures of a bygone era.
Traveling thousands of miles along the
roadside of history, photographer Jackson
Faulkner can be found in desolate places with
his Galaxy S7 Edge and Nikon D7100 in hand,
summoning the memory of a human presence
from objects, long void of living company.
Bringing dramatically emotive edits to each
landscape, Faulkner achieves his signature
‘Dramascape’ style.
In an exclusive interview with INSPADES,
Faulkner discusses the value of our collective
past, the successes and failures of the American
Dream, and the ways in which an object can
tell the story of society as accurately as people
recording history.
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