The wide, desert-like expanses of the American West form endless landscapes, punctuated by occasional silhouettes all but lost in the immensity. The roads that pass through Wyoming, Utah, California and Nevada are flanked along their length by landscapes that appear as-yet untouched, and from which impressive rock formations rise as rare traces of civilisation are glimpsed among the vast, arid plains. The sheer scale of these landscapes takes travellers back to the origins of the world and the human condition, causing them to question their relationship with time and humbling them in the face of such vastness, their only reference points the vanishing lines and horizons that form the geometry of nature.

Juliette Charvet is a French photographer based in New York. Her interest in photography and photojournalism led her to study journalism when she enrolled at university. While pursuing her studies, she developed a passion for photography and travelled throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia and North America. After graduating from the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme (Superior School of Journalism of Paris), she spent time in Vietnam, then the Lebanon, where she built on her experience in the photography department of Agence France-Presse in Beirut. Moving to New York, she continued her training at the International Center of Photography. She currently lives in Brooklyn, where her work focuses mainly on art and travel photography.
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