Andrew Borowiec

Belpre, Ohio, 2006

Canal Winchester, Ohio, 2006

Monroe, Ohio, 2006

Andrew Borowiec has the ability to capture something very unique. Not only can you see a county in transition, but a country at a specific point. Making the transition from black and white to full color, Borowiec traveled middle America, mostly the Ohio area, after the 2004 election. What he found was that the landscape itself reflected the people who inhabited it. It's possible to paint an entire portrait of a people with out even having to actually show them. So many 'American experience' photographers tend to focus on the people themselves but few look past them to the to the actual spaces themselves. A similar color pallet and an even use of lighting in his images seem eerily similar throughout each different location. The often subtle imagery seen in the pictures is contrasted with over the top, larger than life objects that play to the inconsistent tendencies of modern American life.