The slow deterioration of the American heart.


Dave Jordano’s investigation into the rural countryside of Illinois leaves us both fascinated and wounded, exposing the decline of a reality which is no longer only American, but the failure of a model of development.
“I discovered that most of what I saw”, he tells us in a personal note, “is not the idyllic countryside that one expects. In fact the mechanised monoculture has created vast expanses of wheat and soya fields, leaving hundreds of old and exhausted little towns which dot the country.”
The photograph of Chicago captures the subjects in an attempt to understand the circumstances and events which surround them, people living on the fringe of society, outside the rules and isolated in a precarious economic situation.
“My intention is not to discredit the rural countryside, but I cannot help but feel that only a few generations ago this was a far richer land, in every sense. Nevertheless, I find that some aspects of rural life to be wonderfully eccentric, full of individual expression and personality.”

Photo:

© Courtesy of Dave Jordano

www.davejordanophotography.com

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