For eight years Thomas Kern lived and worked in America. During this time he tried, on numerous journeys and reportages, to grasp a country that has already been documented many times. More than 70 years after Walker Evans's social-documentary photography and 50 years after Robert Frank's The Americans, he succeeds with penetrating, laconic black-and-white shots in conveying an authentic, disparate picture of the American present. As a quiet observer, the subject of his work remains the unspectacular everyday life of the country and its people — a visual commentary on the state of the nation in images that seem quickly consumable and familiar yet remain strangely recalcitrant.