Mark Laita's photographic pairs juxtapose Americans from wildly different subcultures – portraying the indvidualism at the heart of life in the US. There is, in the end, no American mainstream, only individuals pursuing different roads to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But are the people in these portraits really who they appear to be?
Mark Laita
Sun 11 Dec 2011 15.00 EST First published on Sun 11 Dec 2011 15.00 EST
