The photographer Alex Harris grapples with the interplay between production sets and physical locations in his project “Our Strange New Land.”
, “There’s a kind of a hyperrealism there and a kind of surrealism there. I think these pictures make us think, O.K., this is reality. And then, in another second, you look at it and you think, You know, this is something a little bit surreal and strange. It gets you to look at it and look at it again.”The same can be said of his latest collection of images, which capture both the real and imagined places seen in films. Its genesis goes back more than a decade.
In another powerful image, a black police officer argues intensely with a white officer, who has his hand on his gun. The two are framed, as the focal point of the image, by the outstretched arms and equipment of the men who are filming them. The cops here bring to mind the especially painful intertwined histories of race and law enforcement in the South.
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