INTERVIEW: "Thomas Kern – A Drug Free Land" (2010)

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Interview with Thomas Kern: “A Drug Free Land” (2011)

Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, California, 2003

Thomas Kern – Interview A DRUG FREE LAND

By Christian Reister, 2011, originally published by Seconds2Real

Q: Thomas, tell us a little about your photographic career.

TK: I became fascinated by ph

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The photographs I was searching for were documentary but rest ambiguous and inconclusive at the same time. I was not trying to make a final statement. The images come from heart and mind alike. They are wrought from strong convictions shaped by my own experience of living in the midst of a sometimes deceitfully familiar America – a very personal departure point to explore a very public subject. There was no common language for the confusions and fears triggered by 9/11, the ongoing wars and a crumbling economy. It was my ambition to give this America a face, to create a document, a visual commentary on the state of the nation