The New Americans (2024)

A photobook created as a modern update of Robert Frank’s The Americans.

The New Americans explores the unreliable signal value of images. In this book, the placement of each photo is just as important as the photo itself. Together, they construct a fictitious version of the United States—one that exists only in our minds, shaped by what we want to believe is real.

I challenge any reader to visit all 36 locations featured in the book. If you manage it, reach out to me—I'll send you a free pressing.

The idea for this book grew out of my disparate approach to photography. Like Wolfgang Tillmans, I’m not committed to any single style or loyal to any specific camera. The photos in The New Americans span every period of my life—some taken so early, I didn’t even realize I was making photographs. They come from every kind of tool imaginable: film, digital, DSLR, mirrorless, full-frame, medium format, and of course, my iPhone.

In many ways, these images have nothing in common. But in another way—they do: they are all in this book.

Don’t believe everything you see.