Barbara’s project, American Bedroom, offers a composite portrait of the United States through unguarded portraits of Americans in their bedrooms.
The images she has made so far - paired with pithy, poetic quotes from each subject - are full of subtle details that invite us to contemplate the idiosyncrasies of each enigmatic life.
She reminds us that, in an era rife with hot-take, reductionist analyses of the American body politic, her fellow citizens really do contain multitudes.
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