PLACE: FLINT HILLS OF KANSAS
Kansas is, as we all know, mostly flat plains. To the east are famous locales such as Topeka and Kansas City (the Kansas side of town). To the west lie infamous wild-west locales such as Dodge City. In the middle, though, is the quiet, rolling terrain of the Flint Hills. It is a land where the ubiquitous American corn and beans, prevalent elsewhere in this middle of the midwest states, yield to grasslands and cattle. See the Photo Journal here.
SNEAK PEEK
The Mississippi Delta runs for 200 miles from just south of Tenessee to the top of Louisiana. It extends into both Mississippi and Arkansas and is home to much of America's cotton production, as well as its poverty. This photo journal explores the Mississippi side of the Delta. A sneak peek of the photo journal can be found in this photojournal.
ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE
Interstate Magazine has passed its first birthday, and to date has featured the photography of a single photographer. It's time to change that. Interstate Magazine is looking for one or two photographers, each to photograph a single photo journal. A stipend will be paid. Know someone? Let us know.
As always, feel free to drop us a line at editors@interstatemagazine.com.
INTRODUCTION TO KOJIMA YASUTAKA, A PHOTOGRAPHER YOU SHOULD KNOW
Kojima Yasutaka, from the series “Tokyo Landscapes”
Capturing a place, particularly a large, dense city like New York or Tokyo, borders the impossible.Cities such as these have too many of everything -- too many people, too many buildings, too many streets, lots, alleys, lights, signs, too much everything. Kojima Yasutaka is undaunted by all this too-muchness. He has turned his lens on New York, Tokyo and Berlin, simultaneously freezing daily details of big cities while reducing them to shaded or colorful abstraction.
You can find his work here.
EDITOR'S NOTE: THE STRENGTH OF PERSISTENCE
The Flint Hills is a grassy, elongated keloid raised from the otherwise flat state, running north-south one quarter of the way in from the Missouri border. As is the story for much of small town rural America, the region suffered a bleeding of population in the late twentieth century. The hollowing is visible in the many downtowns and surrounding residential streets, where operating businesses and inhabited homes stand cheek to cheek with their abandoned counterparts. But will the overgrown consume the manicured, will the fallow overwhelm the occupied? Read more in this recent blog post.