• Western Ohio
  
• Sneak Peek: Bowling the American Dream (The Book)
  
• Roadside Assistance: The Inland Empire
• A Photographer You Should Know: Bryan Anselm
• The Editor’s Note: Western Ohio and the (Sub)Urban/Rural Split

PLACE: WESTERN OHIO

Western Ohio presents a localized study in the modern American suburban-urban/rural split. Farmland of industrial corn and beans is dotted by shriveling small towns, while suburbia encircles the urban centers of Dayton to the south and Columbus to the east. See the Photo Journal here.

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SNEAK PEEK

The first book from Interstate Magazine, Bowling the American Dream, America's Bowlers and Their Bowling Alleys, is out! Pick it up on Amazon. A sneak peek inside the book can be found in this photojournal.

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ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE

We will be traveling California's "Inland Empire" this January to capture daily life there. If you know any denizens of the Inland Empire who might be willing to show us around and introduce us to the folks, let us know.

And to repeat our repeating, we are still planning to photograph families living in suburbia who would share a slice of that life with a photographer, let us know, and we are hoping to photograph life in office park offices around the country. If you can help with either, please let us know.

As always, feel free to drop us a line at editors@interstatemagazine.com.

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INTRODUCTION TO CHRIS ARNADE, A PHOTOGRAPHER YOU SHOULD KNOW

Photographers like Bryan Anselm are growing fewer and farther between. Regardless of whether he is photographing major news events, like the aftermath of global warming fueled hurricanes, or modern martial arts dojos led by aging senseis, his photos reveal a quotidian in the extraordinary. He captures the sensational without sensationalizing it, and finds the humanity in dehumanizing circumstances. The result is a body of work that connects viewer to subject emotionally.

You can find his work here and here.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: WESTERN OHIO AND THE (SUB)URBAN/RURAL SPLIT

In the west end of Western Ohio, in the spaces between the sprawling acres of industrial two row crops, lie the paper thin husks of small towns that once thrived but now barely exist. On the east and south ends of Western Ohio, spec-sized farm towns give way to modern suburbia. The split between suburbs and urban communities on the one hand and small town rural life on the other prevails throughout the country. It is a split between the world of the rural and industrial, of tangible production as opposed to the incorporeal world of services. Read more in this recent blog post.

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