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These projects started as a series looking at the culture of junk and fast food in the U.S. Cultural change tends to start at the level of our relationship to the natural world, particularly how we get food. I became alarmed by what our predilection for junk foods (a low-nutritional but high-energy consuming product) said about our cultural change.

When in 2005 I traveled to Florida to photograph theme parks that use history as a marketing device, the two projects merged together into one conversation. I have continued to photograph Off-Season since, at festivals and drive-thrus, across the country. In it I try to mitigate the sweetness and nostalgia to which we sometimes succumb when portraying Americana through hints that something is awry.

My goal in making these photographs is to speak to the emotional dissonance I feel in our present condition, due in part to our obsession with the iconography of advertising. How have the good times have diverted us? We are unaware of the cost as we literally lay waste to our country. Drifting between joy, violence, fatigue, and despair, the subjects of Off-Season reflect our need to participate in popular culture, even as we are subsumed by it. We are lost, blissfully ignorant, wandering through an interminable off-season. The festival is ongoing, but the party is over.

Super Soda, Metropolis, Illino

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Sleeping Elvis, Kissimmee, Flo

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London, Kentucky, 2005

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The Unfortunate Result of the

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Too Long at the Fair, McArthur

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Too Long at the Fair, McArthur, Ohio, 2004

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Corn-Dog, Labelle, Florida, 2006

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Tofu Dog, Playboy Bunny, Peta Protest, Washington, DC 2004

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Hot Dog Platter, Coney Island, NY 2005

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Hot Dog Fans, Coney Island, NY 2005

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Praise the Bratwurst, McArthur, Ohio 2005

2005