Growing up in a small, isolated community, surrounded by nature, shapes in artists an aesthetic vision in which humans play an irrelevant role. Portland, Oregon-born photographer Brendon Burton captures the decadence and loneliness of American landscapes, in which the presence of man’s activities such as pylons or signs often sound like a disturbing element, errors in the landscape.
Burton clearly catches a face of the United States, that of the boundless horizons, the posters, the abandoned houses and the cars that “how did they end up there?”.
The fascination and anguish of abandonment overlap in images depicting dilapidated wooden buildings. The billboards isolated in the middle of the fields, or hidden by the fog, also speak a truth about what it means to be heard in a polarized environment.

Brendon Burton’s work is partly collected in the book “American poetry”, a collection of landscapes shot over the course of five years along the roads of the United States.