Layered with van Agtmael’s personal accounts
Abbas documented the Iranian Revolution during the 1970s
While predominantly known for his war photography
“he seemed to know that it was the inner moment I was drawn to and not his clown face or physical appearance
In poorer regions like Dagestan
Fine Print: North and South Carolina. August, 2017 Paper size:30 x 40 in (76.2 x 100 cm) Layered with van Agtmael’s personalOver the course of 15 years, Gregory Halpern photographed Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.