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Swiss photographer Roland Iselin, born 1958, graduated from the
famous photography class at the School of Design in Zurich (today
Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK) and also completed a Master's
degree at New York's School of Visual Arts. Prior to his artistic
education, he completed his studies in socio-cultural animation at
Zurich-based Institute of Applied Psychology. Unguided Road Trip is
Iselin's latest long-term project. Since 2011, he has been
travelling his native Switzerland and his adopted second home
country, the US, documenting how in either place the landscape is
'furnished' with all sorts of structures and objects. Bus stops,
public toilets, gas stations. We recognise such things and make use
of the convenience they offer, yet we forget about them again
immediately. In small and densely populated Switzerland, the
landscape is cluttered with objects that serve a specific purpose:
phone and letterboxes, benches, signposts, wayside crosses. But
equally, the vast and scarcely inhabited open landscapes in the US
are cut-across by roads lined by mass-produced objects.Iselin has
found many motifs common in both countries: memorials for victims
of road accidents, cattle gates, rifle ranges with their pavilions,
rest stops. A landscape's 'furniture' does not accumulate
accidentally. Rather, each object is placed intentionally, and they
testify, in a way, to a society's state. Iselin's images
demonstrate values and ideals, showing how the design of these
objects guides our behaviour. This new book brings together some
140 photographs from Iselin's Unguided Road Trip, for the first
time. The images are complemented with texts by writer and
photography critic Nadine Olonetzky.
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