Life on the edge

摘要

The ordered lines of Jerome, Idaho (population: 10,000) start to disintegrate as you approach those parts of town that teeter on the edge of the Snake river canyon. Here the homes are "unregulated and unzoned", says photographer Michael Light, who took this shot from his own light aircraft.There seems to be a tension between the advance of civilisation and the untamed wilds. "It represents a kind of apocalyptic divine intervention upon Thomas Jeff erson's vision of a pastoral agrarian America built on the rationality of the grid," Light says, "as if the hand of God was a very displeased claw."