American Winter Under 25 part tableau

part tableau

and pass time while animals lurk in the urban fringes

this catalogue raisonné charts two decades of Starkey’s influential image-making

and the University of New South Wales

video stills and drawings

American Winter Under 25 part tableauSince the early eighties, Gerry Johansson has made quiet pictures of quiet places, often lying in the shadows of industrial decline. For American Winter, Johansson travelled through semi deserted towns in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, finding as much beauty as there was misery in landscapes cloaked in snow: an isolated church floating in a mottled sea of white; leafless trees lining endless highways