Gregory Halpern moved from coast to coast across the US before finding artistic inspiration in an unlikely setting. Eve Watling on the photographer’s images of aggressive, rough-hewn masculinity
He began photographing Omahaian daily life: the high school football matches, card games, Boy Scout meetings and park hangouts. His subjects are often young men, the kind who wouldn’t appreciate showing much vulnerability before a camera or to an outsider. “It’s hard,” Halpern toldof approaching his subjects. “I still get nervous because I’m actually quite introverted, and I have to work up the energy. I try to be extremely respectful, positive, honest and direct about what I’m doing.
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