Anastasia
Samoylova

FloodZone is an expansive photographic series responding to the environmental changes in coastal cities of the southern United States. The project is built upon a set of interrelated paradoxes: the seductive and destructive dissonance between the official iconography of the region comprised of tourist and real estate advertising and the stark daily realities of climate change; the ways landscape and a sense of place are at once natural and constructed; and the way photography both records and crafts perception. Although the project was prompted by the effects of a major hurricane, FloodZone avoids the over-familiar media imagery of disaster and human suffering. Instead, there are photographs of the saturated topography, portraits of locals, and close-up observations of architecture, abundant flora and fauna. The images provide a broad yet acute perspective on what it feels like to live in at-risk areas while economic forces instil a sense of denial and disavowal.

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