Upstate

Embracing my official status in the U.S.A. as a Legal Alien I aim to bring the curiosity of an outsider to my explorations of the inhabitants and environment of Kingston and the surrounding areas of Upstate NY. Looking for signs of the zeitgeist I notice that it is not just me that is the alien - the town seems to be full of strange people. Whilst the economic hollowing-out of many Upstate NY and other US cities is well documented and some of my images refer to that - stranger things are stirring in the debris. The almost Weimaresque decadence of the club scene seems to blossom from resistance to societal norms and the shakily unsustainable feeling of the current economic “boom”. A fascinati...View all