This project was selected and published in our print edition 19. Deserts of the American West and their poetic and chaotic processions of motorway interchanges, cities without centers, residential zones without inhabitants.
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Emmanuel Monzon
The presence of signs is the revelation of the trace of men in the American landscape, and, of the endless expansion of urbanism with the sensation that there is no going back.
It is a highly interesting magazine, open to all forms of photography, whether it be photo-documentary, photo-journalism, fine arts, and on contemporary photography in general. It is a very active and responsive journal on the world of photography, and is always a pleasure to read.
Through my urban sprawl series, I want to photograph the in-between state found in the American landscape. So I capture places of transition, borders, passages from one world to another
Emptiness by Emmanuel Monzon
Jan 24, 2017
The work of Emmanuel Monzon focuses primarily on the idea of urban sprawling and the urban expansion of its periphery. Monzon photographs urban banality as though it were a romantic painting, trying only to be “stronger than this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject.