Last stop

‘Last Stop’ is the result of a journey through both the outskirts of New York City and the collective conscience of an American society.

For six months, I rode the New York subway lines to their last stops, got off and photographed the area surrounding them. I found these cityscapes of the outer-rim of New York City fascinating. As an outsider, one of the most interesting aspects of American society is the inner conflict between an innovative and modern side, and a conservative and often narrow-minded one. This conflict is best seen when comparing (what I call) "The Great USA," which is covered with endless grid-like highways and small towns that seem like clones of one another, to the never-sleeping, multi-cultural and open-minded New York City.

The place I bring in ‘Last Stop’ has been a place in my mind that has become clearer after experiencing American society for a  substantial amount of time. This gray area between "The Great USA" and New York City is simultaneously both and neither, it conveys a psychological inner struggle of an over 200 year old 'new people.'

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