Tania Franco Klein - whose exhibition "Long Story Short" is her first New York solo show - grew up in Mexico City, where she studied architecture before focusing on photography. In her photographic work, Franco Klein explores the fragility of the American dream, as well as themes of self-improvement and the impact of social media, "because we are constantly bombarded with information there's no space to discover life", she says. "Car Widow," from her series "Proceed to the Route," was shot during a road trip across the "Four Corners" of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. The image features a woman looking on to a landscape of mountains, barren land and ghost towns. Her identity is ambiguous, Franco Klein says, because she wants her to represent issues shared by everyone who lives in a capitalist society.
By Alexandra Brooks