Along the Eastern Seaboard: Anastasia Samoylova and Ricardo Mor at Miami Book Fair
Join renowned documentary and studio photographer Anastasia Samoylova and arts journalist and curator Ricardo Morat at the Miami Book Fair for a conversation celebrating Samoylova’s new monograph, Atlantic Coast, copublished by Aperture and the Norton Museum of Art.
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, Two Cars, East Harlem, New York, 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).
Ricardo Mor is an arts journalist and curator. He is currently the program officer for the information-and-society team at Knight Foundation.
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