Los Angeles-based photographer Clint Woodside has released his latest monograph, Independence, the first in a collaborative series featuring different guest co-editors. Co-edited by artist and Fulcrum Press co-founder Josh Schaedel, Independence refers to the "name of a not-quite-yet-has-been town that's become all too familiar in the United States." Like much of his other work, the photographs in this new volume from Deadbeat Club offer a quiet, poetic contemplation of the world around him. Having grown up in a place not so different from Independence, Woodside is able to usher the collective feelings, memories, understanding, and perspective to portraying a neglected American landscape.
Independence portrays sovereignty or self-determination based on the mutual cooperation and confidence of a group of people, where, as economic and social conditions erode, confidence becomes harder to maintain; there's neglect and collapse, but not surrender. Woodside manages, in his photographs, to show that erosion of hope does not necessarily mean hopelessness. —Deadbeat Club
Independence is available via Deadbeat Club
