America Blues

Images of a curious melancholic atmosphere, a mixture of fantasy and disillusion, solitude and stereotypes.

Renowned photographer Marco Paoluzzo took several trips to the U.S. trying to find its soul, and ten months of traveling from east to west, north to south, through 48 states and over 40,000 miles produced stark black and white photographs reflecting the loneliness of the individual. He questions: Had I captured the blues of AmericaThe photographer set out four times with a rental car on endless journeys back and forth through the states in order to discover the real America, the country behind the glittering advertisement shots. "America Blues" presents the photographic distillation of these journeys: Pictures with a strange melancholic atmosphere, a mixture of dream and disappointment, loneliness and cliché.