Letters from Midwest

once upon a time, travel was an exotic adventure, a discovery of unknown places and cultures, an encounter with strange people. today, one day’s flight bridges the distance between Europe and the American mid-west. But in a region where the landscape is flat, life monotonous, and the people accepting that everyday life harbors no surprises, it is still possible to have an adventure. this Letters from Midwestis the account of a two-month long sojourn among those strangest people of all in today’s world: common Americans.
the Letters from Midwest consists of digital photographs, presenting 600 photography series of 600,. at a relentless rhythm, photos of ordinary things made strange by the eye of oneEuropean artist appear at the wall, a man born in the middle east now living in Germany, with a background in architecture, he went on a trip to meet the people who determine the state of the world, to take a look at theirs: Ohio, USA.
from an immense photo archive made day by day a selection shows ordinariness at the sharpest edge, of a variety of people living in Ohio, as if he was the recipients of a letter reflecting on their world. montesqueue’s Persian letters reversed. they may stumble over a word or hate an opinion...