Anastasia Samoylova’s 2,000 Mile Journey Throughout America Retraces Images Greats

Inspired by nice artists earlier than her, Russian-American Anastasia Samoylova took a photographic journey alongside the historic U.S. Route 1 — starting in her house state of Florida and ending in Maine.

In 1954, the American photographer Berenice Abbott got down to doc the historic US Route 1, predicting seismic adjustments to small cities and main cities alongside the highway introduced by the quickly increasing Interstate Highway System. Inspired by Abbott’s acute and poetic observations of life alongside Route 1, Samoylova retraced Abbott’s journey seventy years later.

Samoylova’s images discover the enduring impression of Route 1 as a hall of commerce, migration, and delusion, revealing how the American panorama continues to be formed by infrastructure, ideology, and phantasm. The journey resulted within the monograph Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast

Samoylova’s journey as an artist runs parallel to that of Robert Frank, whose legendary e book, The Americans, outlined a brand new visible language of cultural critique and disillusionment. Like Frank, Samoylova immigrated to the United States on the age of 23, drawn to the contradictions and guarantees of American life.

Atlantic Coast picks up Frank’s visible thread in a rustic additional fragmented by environmental disaster, political nostalgia, and unchecked improvement, including a particular chapter to a storied lineage of photographers.

Samoylova works within the intersections of environmentalism, consumerism, politics, and the picturesque. The e book options vibrant shade and black-and-white images that draw on the visible vernacular of tourism, promoting, and the highway journey itself.

Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast is printed by Aperture and might be launched on November 18, 2025; $65. The launch coincides with two of Samoylova’s solo exhibitions of the identical title opening on the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL on November 15 in addition to an exhibition at Dot Fiftyone Gallery in Miami, FL opening on November 30.