Man walking past parking lot by michael ormerod
Michael ormerods photographs are understated but show an unseen america where the industrial heartland is decaying highways stand empty and towns are deserted the subjects of ormerods work are the disenfranchised a teenager cycles through her neighbourhood wearing a halloween style hockey mask a native american man stands in a graveyard their expressions are unreadable the work subverts traditional american icons a white picket fence is staved in a huge billboard for miss teen dakot