Rockabilly: Live like in the 50s

EVERY DAY PHOTOGRAPHERS AROUND THE WORLD looking for new ways to tell stories or to capture what we previously did not notice. We choose interesting photo projects and ask their authors what they wanted to say. This week is the Rockabillies series of American Jennifer Greenberg, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Professor of Photography at Indiana University. Jennifer began her career at the age of 6, wandering around California Disneyland with her father's polaroid and taking off strangers, and continued with a series about people who created their own reality inside modern America.

In all the pictures of the series - the real people that I shot in their own homes. They belong to the community of Americans who live, as if in the courtyard - the American 50s. They wear vintage clothes, live in vintage houses, drive vintage cars and surround themselves with vintage items. It took me ten years to make this series - all these people live in different parts of the country, so I had to find them and get to them. In addition, I tried to feel the life of each of my heroes and to get in touch with them, to create an atmosphere of mutual trust between us. A shot will never succeed if there is a gulf between the photographer and the subject of the picture. The complete series has been published as a book, it can be ordered on Amazon.

I myself also collect vintage clothes and furniture - I was pushed to this by the realization that it was a whole culture, something more than just consumption. The heroes of my series feel part of the community for this very reason: they trust each other, they are friends and they have a common view on what things are and their history. Being a witness to such a union is very touching.

It seems to me that each of us needs to belong to a certain group. In the States, this becomes a real problem - there is an incredible mixture of cultures. For example, I have Russian, Polish, Norwegian and Swedish roots. I can not belong to any of these cultures separately - because too much has merged in me. So I'm just an American. In our country, this means so little: there is no sense of community in this. Religion is also seen by many as a dubious unifying force. All this leads the majority to the feeling of disunity and the lack of a common cultural code. What remains to us? Subcultures. They make it possible to find like-minded people. And this is a wonderful solution to the problem of disunity - I was very happy to be part of this for the first time in my life.