Michael Young: Maybe Tomorrow – LENSCRATCH

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Michael Young: Maybe Tomorrow – LENSCRATCH

This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Michael Young’s series Maybe Tomorrow. I first came across Michael Young’s work with the series Hidden Glances. His expert use of collage to play with personal concepts between the visible and invisible made me take note. I later

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Maybe Tomorrow is a long term, lyrical documentary project centered around my partner’s hometown in rural western Kentucky that explores the complexity of the meanings assigned to, or assumed of, the region by both its residents and outsiders. Curious about my partner Erik’s continued ambivalence about returning to his home after building a life here in New York, I began to photograph this community, which we return to every summer.

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