Created Equal – Mark Laita

Mark Laita’s book documents the people who make up America’s diverse culture, shedding light on notions of identity, class, and lifestyle. Presented as diptychs, the images exert striking comparisons as they explore class, race, gender, sexuality, and more within the United States. Completed over the course of eight years, Laita intentionally photographed his subjects against a muted backdrop and each portrait’s lighting, cropping, and camera angle is intentionally consistent, creating work that reveals unlikely connections and contradictions through coupling.