The neverending story  

To discuss this young American photographer, we chose some images from the series “Forecast for Today.” A collection that seems deliberately inconclusive, a sort of diary on which to pin pictures of a personal journey. Many fragments, rather than a whole, making it look like a survey less accomplished and complacent than other appreciable works as “Under the Western Freeway” or “Ventana View”. However, in this mosaic of memories we can better grasp those tensions and common reasons that we find throughout Aksland’s work. Among these: the search for a contact with the landscape and nature, the representation someway spontaneous of man, a certain irony in portraying ambiguous, unpleasant or, at times, ridiculous situations. A bright look that doesn’t seem to linger that much, but is able enough to return truthful and vivid images on places and their people.

Photo:

© Courtesy of Dustin Aksland

www.dustinaksland.com

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