Adam Ryder is an MFA candidate in the Photography, Video and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In his work, he utilizes the unique language of photographic and digital imaging technologies to explore the myriad ways in which architecture, infrastructure, and development shape our lives. His piece in Photocartographies combines elements from one hundred and fifty publicly availably aerial photographs from around the country via the United States Geological Survey. Ryder showcases how the imposition of formal-rational systems on the landscape have created interchangeable spaces, capable of being assembled like so many blocks into a new, simulacral form resembling the agrarian interior of the country. (adamryder.com)
