In the beginning of 2006, I traveled back to Troy, Alabama, a small college town where I spent my first 6 months in the US in 2000. My curiosity was drawn by encountering too many once-familiar landscapes. However, when my journey continued, I found beyond the apparent stillness, the subtle changes revealed the contrast deeply rooted in the cultural landscape.

When religious fundamentalism still plays key role in the local social life, the proven multicultural atmosphere is attempting to attract the Asian and Africans students and the Japanese investors.

How does the local individual stand in this whirling circumstance? How do people look at controversy of changes and stillness? Perhaps more than a simple answer to the questions the photographs teach me that the individual ’s value is beyond measure. The project is a portrayal of a world whose feet are planted in the past and future, and whose culture is evolving at the same rate as its outward appearance.

This ongoing project was featured on FILE Magazine as featured project. CLICK >