Atlantic Coast: A Conversation with Anastasia Samoylova
Join renowned documentary and studio photographer Anastasia Samoylova and curator Lauren Richman in a conversation celebrating Samoylova’s new monograph, Atlantic Coast, copublished by Aperture and the Norton Museum, and her exhibition of the same title on view at the Norton Museum through March 1, 2026.
In 1954, American photographer Berenice Abbott set out to document the historic US Route 1, already predicting seismic changes to small towns and major cities along the route brought by the rapidly expanding Interstate Highway System. Spanning all thirteen original colonies and beyond—from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida—US Route 1 formed over the course of three hundred years from connecting sections of what was once known as the Atlantic Highway. Inspired by Abbott’s acute and poetic observations on life along Route 1, Samoylova ventures on her own journey to revisit those communities forever transformed by the interstate in Atlantic Coast. Samoylova provides a closer look at the American landscape irreversibly altered by the unrelenting expansion of industry, commerce, and development, as well as the displacement and tenacity of people and wildlife.
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Image: Anastasia Samoylova, Fifth-Generation Farmer, Garysburg, North Carolina, 2024; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). © 2025 Anastasia Samoylova
Anastasia Samoylova (born in Moscow, 1984) is a Miami-based photographer who explores the intersections of environmentalism, consumerism, politics, and the picturesque. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; C/O Berlin; Victoria and Albert Museum, Dundee, Scotland; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid and Barcelona; Amerikahaus Munich; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; and Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna. She has published four critically acclaimed books: FloodZone (2019); Floridas (2022); Image Cities (2023), published in conjunction with her winning the inaugural KBr Photo Award; and Adaptation (2024).
Lauren Richman, PhD, is the William and Sarah Ross Soter Senior Curator of Photography at the Norton Museum of Art,West Palm Beach, Florida.
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