False Pass, Alaska (2010) takes its name from a small Aleutian fishing settlement (population: 35) that I found while playing with Google maps. In this series, I sampled pictures of white cisgendered (and presumably American) men displaying large fish that they had caught, tranposing their images onto the sunny sky of an idyllic mountain meadow. In their attempt to boast to the viewer of their prowess as a provider, these men display a painful awkwardness that seems to be fueled by their desperation to perpetuate their pseudo-natural positions in a hegemonically masculine society.
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