American Dreamscapes
Christian Heeb photographed his America. "American Dreamscapes" show the darkness on the outskirts of the city. Scenes of the inhabitants of rural America are reminiscent of films such as The Big Lebowski or Pulp Fiction. Christian Heeb worked on this project for more than four years. The wonderfully bizarre world of everyday American life in the countryside.
American Dreamscapes shows the "American" world at the abyss of the American Dream. We find the remnants of America's soft power. The American sledges from the golden age of the US auto industry, the seemingly endless expanses of the “Desert Highways”, the old dinners and the Hopperesque scenes populated by people without hope, colorfully tattooed, deliberately lascivious but empty.
The soundtrack is from Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and Johnny Cash's American Recordings.
The pictures can be seen in a limited exhibition at Photo Münsingen.
Christian Heeb
The photographer, who has lived in Oregon, USA since 1996, made Donald Trump's America visible in his pictures.
The Swiss photographer is known for his pictures of Indians and American landscapes.
After years of work on travel topics with a focus on North and South America, he dedicates himself to the land of his dreams in an opulent illustrated book.