Mark Power — Good Morning, America Vol. I

"For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to explore America, an ambition fuelled by the legion of TV shows that crossed the Atlantic in the 1960s. As a young and impressionable child, I devoured The Man from Uncle and The Fugitive, but it was the westerns, evoking a landscape utterly removed from the congested English suburbs surrounding me, that I loved most: Bonanza, The High Chaparral, The Virginian and, in particular, Casey Jones. I began a search for the America which lived in my imagination, the one generated during childhood, the one that had probably never existed at all.”

– Mark Power

Over the past six years photographer Mark Power has travelled to and fro across the US to create a complex visual narrative of a country attempting to redefine itself. This new publication, Good Morning, America (Volume One) is the first in a series of five books by Power to be produced over the next five years as a result of this ongoing project. It represents a personal and timely exploration of both the American cultural and physical landscape, and the divergence of reality and myth.