The New Americans

Self-published photobook · 2024

“The new Americans are lost and they do not care to be found.”

Cover and selected spreads. The text is an interpolation of “Comment No. 1” by Gil Scott-Heron. Published in BROAD Magazine, December 2025.

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The white cloth hardcover of The New Americans by Alex Schupak, the title set in scattered black type.

Title page: THE NEW AMERICANS by Alex Schupak, 2024, with a black-and-white photograph of a fire hydrant capped by a traffic cone.

Contents page listing place names and page numbers across the United States.

Three figures at night spray-painting a red mark onto the weathered log wall of a barn.

Spread: a black-and-white waterfall over granite at left; a cropped knee and water bottle at a lakeshore at right.

Spread: portable toilets beside a highway sign at night, lit blue, with a blown-out white light at right.

Spread: a towering cumulus cloud against deep blue sky at left; a burnt-orange haze with a dark shape at right.

Spread: the line 'The new Americans are lost and they do not care to be found.' at left; a boy bent over clear shallow water at right.

Fireflies streaking green trails through dense summer foliage under a pink dusk sky.

Spread: two SUVs parked nose to nose in an empty wet lot under a gray winter sky.

Spread: the line 'Who they were has very little to do with what they did...' at left; bare trees and a blown-out light at right.

Spread: the line 'They listen without asking, see without looking, and act without hoping.' at left; a flashlit cave wall at right.

Closing page set entirely in heavy black type: WHO WILL SURVIVE IN THE NEW AMERICA?

The New Americans

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