Tatum Shaw pulls back the curtain on the idyllic suburban American dream, revealing the droll, sobering and faintly ominous reality below the surface. Shot entirely on black-and-white film, the series began as images made on the artist’s “off days” from his commercial colour projects; as the world entered a period of global isolation, its drained palette and disquiet tone took on new meaning. Focusing on the Southern United States, the photographs capture people and places neither idealised nor embellished: a visual world funny, confusing and deeply vulnerable. With text by Tim Davis, an unflinching examination of the contemporary American vernacular.