在过去的十年中，法国摄影师让•卢克•贝蒂尼（Jean-Luc Bertini）走遍了美国，为独一无二的孤立景象拍摄了许多照片。美国的地理环境及其对个人主义精神的拥护形成了这种独特的孤立景象。贝蒂尼（Bertini）拍摄的对象置身于美国广阔的背景之下，他探索了从荒凉到孤独的各种差别细微的孤立。

Over the course of a decade, French photographer Jean-Luc Bertini traveled the length and breadth of the United States, creating portraits of the unique circumstance of isolation fostered by the country’s geographic circumstances and its espousal of an individualist ethos. Bertini casts his subjects against the vast backdrops of the country, exploring all the nuances of isolation, from solitude to loneliness. This perspective produces an usual and fresh take on America as a nation.

In his preface, Richard Ford, author of The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank With You, focuses on the physiognomies of solitude in America: “Looking at his work, we build up an idea of the unique character of American solitudes, in non-binary terms, in which what is ours does not only belong to us.”