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SALVATION MOUNTAIN & SLAB CITY - CALIFORNIA

 

The last free place in America. Located in an abandoned Marine Corps base in the Southern California desert lies Salvation Mountain and Slab City, home to a makeshift community of artists, misfits, snowbirds and survivalists. The artists, in particular, have reshaped the landscape, most notably through their art installations. The most well-known of these installations is Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain, a five-story-tall adobe-covered mound painted with messages of God’s love. 

In a society where the loss of freedom is becoming more and more present, i've been interested to photograph this community and discover another vision of America.

Known as the "last free place" in America, it's a living testimony to freedom in all of its contradictory forms, both beautiful and bleak.

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