Photo book on Florida – Endstation Untergang

– Final destination sinking

Photographer Anastasia Samoylova disenchants the Sunshine State as a subtropical fever dream and unintentionally provides a metaphor for the state of the United States.

Andrian Create

Published today at 06:00

Swallowed by the tropical forest. New Condominiums, Bonita Springs, 2021, from the illustrated book «Floridas».

Photo: Anastasia Samoylova

There are two paradises in the mythology of American reality. One is built on sand, the other in swamp. Both are doomed. There are countless books, songs and films regarding the California apocalypse. But Florida remains largely a mystery, a topographical appendage that juts out into the hurricane region of the Caribbean as if it doesn’t quite belong to the continent. That also sums up the attitude to life in this muggy, mosquito-infested state that literature, film and art rarely deal with.

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