Florida. The political swing-state. The swampland paradise. The refuge of excess. The tourist fantasy. The real estate deception. The sub-tropical fever dream. The elusive place where image and reality become inseparable. Floridas, a recent series by the American photographer Anastasia Samoylova (b. USSR, 1984), documents
it all in a layered portrait of contemporary Florida. The project establishes a dialogue with the oeuvre of
Walker Evans, employing a visual language similar to his detached …
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