Driven by both national and personal anxiety about the current divisions in the US, photographer Richard Sharum embarked on a journey through the central ‘spine’ of America. He was in search of the unifying elements of contemporary American ‘national character’. Focusing on a 100 mile-wide corridor down the geographic centre of the US encompassing parts of the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas—an area often dismissed as ‘flyover’ country—Sharum spoke to more than 4000 people and took over 14000 photographs. His aim was to see if this region could hold the key to a better understanding of who America still is as a country and what remains of the collective hope of a unified nation.

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305 x 225 mm
208pp, 113 images
Hardback
ISBN 978-1-915423-51-1