Christiaan Lopez-Miro is a photographic artist originally from Miami, Florida and has previously self published one body of work, Smoke and Mirrors (2008). Lopez-Miro's new book, Fractured, marks a new direction for Lopez-Miro as he responds to the environment of his new home in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.

"A bullet riddled, weather battered sign. Footsteps immortalized in a concrete sidewalk. A young girl curling her eyelashes while staring directly at the camera. A roadside motel illuminated only by its red sign at night. These are images that help make up “Fractured."

"As I allowed myself to instinctually make images of my new surroundings, something started to materialize; a conflicting point of view. As the images began to speak to each other, a mysterious uneasiness began to develop. The images were simultaneously descriptive and opaque. I started to feel as if I was trying to work out this tension of seeing my new home through a surreal lens."

"A tall young man, standing proud next to his shiny, black Cadillac. A carnival worker, delicately tending to the game he’s tasked with working. A rough, tattooed man experiencing a warmhearted moment in a stable with his horses. Heart anchored moments that seem to break through an otherwise cryptic photographic landscape.

"While the drama is palpable throughout the sequence, these moments of calm help ground the narrative, juxtaposing the quietly chaotic, mysterious moments with some sense of buoyancy that allows the visual world of Fractured to move forward and resolve."

Photograph: Christiaan Lopez-Miro