LECTURE - Martin Adolfsson with Natasha Egan and Larry Mayorga

Millennium Park, Moscow, Russia © Martin Adolfsson

MAS Context is presenting a lecture by photographer and MAS Context contributor Martin Adolfsson in Chicago on Tuesday, June 18th at Public Works. Martin Adolfsson will discuss his projet “Suburbia Gone Wild.” For the past six years he has been photographing model homes built for the newly minted upper middle class in emerging economies around the world. The model home works as a 1:1 scale “no assembly required” model for the potential home buyer that is fully decorated up to and including family photos of John Kerry. The work expands across every continent and includes the suburbs of Bangkok, Shanghai, Bangalore, Cairo, Moscow, Johannesburg, Sao Paulo and Mexico City. The event will include a conversation with Natasha Egan, director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College and graphic designer Larry Mayorga who designed the limited-edition book for the series. For more information about this event, please visit: http://www.mascontext.com/news/lecture-by-martin-adolfsson-june-18-2013/ MAS Context is partially supported by a grant from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.