Over the past five years, photographer Morganne Boulden has traveled across America with a medium-format camera to shape a project that is both intimate and collective. When Flies Sit Still is the title of this visual research that tells the emotional landscape of a country going through profound transitions between 2020 and 2025. Years marked by uncertainty and transformation, during which the photographer chose to turn her gaze to familiar and unfamiliar faces, united by the same tension: living suspended between despair and resilience.

The images do not offer solutions or reassuring landings. They prefer to dwell in the fragility of the present, where beauty intertwines with resistance and strength does not have the face of heroism, but that of silent gestures. A hug, an authentic expression, the refusal to surrender to fatalism: Boulden finds in these details the true substance of strength, which is never spectacular but everyday, tenacious, alive.

When Flies Sit Still moves along a thin border, the one that separates hope from fear, and crosses it with delicacy. It does not try to explain, but to share, restoring a sense of connection in a heavy and uncertain time. Each shot thus becomes an invitation to recognize oneself in others, not to feel alone in front of questions that remain open. It is precisely in this suspension that the project finds its power: in reminding us that resistance is often simply continuing to be.