Nicholas Mehedin was born in 1993 and is a photographer born and based in Sullivan County, New York. He earned a BFA in photography from the SUNY New Paltz in 2015. He currently works as a freelance photo assistant, while pursuing his own personal projects. Nicolas sees photography as a medium and method, trying to make it a tool to communicate his profound thoughts. These, often become conflicts, making him active while focusing on issues as identity, family, and the future. His images often challenge the idyllic perception of America seen instead as tarnished with regressed values.
About ‘Japan’ – words by Nicholas Mehedin:
The systemic structure of late-stage capitalism and social media culture has cultivated an American generation more atomized than any other. Communication has never been easier, but we have never felt more alone. This dichotomy has left many young Americans absorbed by feelings of existential dread, nostalgia, and cynicism. The western mythology of Japan often evokes the dialectical nature of technocratic consumerism in its cities and naturalistic communal living in its countryside. Although this economic model may rhyme with that of Americas, the historical context of the latter has informed Japan’s socioeconomic experience with traditions of altruistic living, respect for nature, and consideration for the future. From a volatile and polarized America I wondered: what does loneliness feel like in such a place?
