Twenty-five years old with a single camera body and lens in hand, Steven Rubin hitched a ride in 1982 to rural Somerset County in northwestern Maine and embarked on a project that would continue for more than 30 years.
Now a selection of the images Rubin captured during his decades-long project in this region of the U.S. will soon get a rare showing in Los Angeles. Read the full Time article here.
Awful. Could you get a more ugly stereotypes of rural Maine and America?
Those pictures could be from rural “anywhere”. They were beautifully shot, but it looks like the photographer was looking for the least attractive, most desperate folks that he could find.
I really like when a photographer takes beautiful shots of “real” not classically beautiful people, but this is really a depressing bunch of shots.
Looks like they could have been taken in Appalachia.
Well the Appalachian trail does run thru here…
Lot’s of poverty around, just hidden, one has to look for it.
Underemployment, undereducation, lack of resources for medical and dental care, poor nutrition, poor and unsafe housing. The list goes on.
But sure, let’s cut General Assistance, even with a state surplus. Heartless.
(And do see the original photos at http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/17/vacationland-rural-maine-chronicled-in-the-photography-of-steven-rubin/#1)
Thats what I thought.
Yuck.
I hear banjos…
Geesh, Time, don’t do us any favors.
Those guys seem creepy to be around young kids.
If LePage has his way, this would be the way the whole state would be living today!
Holy cow, that doesn’t make Somerset look too good………………
Just saying.
Wow………