The myth of the American dream has always had a strong impact on people's ideas about life outside of America. Symbolically, it is inextricably linked with the images of the cowboys in the vast expanses of the Midwest. Economically, it is based largely on ecological and social equanimity and glorifies the right of the strongest.

Scenes from agriculture and mining characterize the “Frontcountry” photo series, created from 2006 to 2013. The American photographer Lucas Foglia (born 1983) meets people, gets to know them and accompanies their search for the ideal life model with pointed and sometimes bizarre images. In a virtuoso manner, he stages cinematoscopic panoramas in a breathtakingly gigantic, primeval American setting, which let the great dream of self-forged happiness, life in harmony with nature and the work of your own hands shine once again in its old splendour. On the other hand, he presents images that bring the transience of these forms of life to the surface. Against the apparent idyll of civilization refugees and farm workers, the artist assembles the story of a dying American myth ’: The wild west of the cowboys gives way to a deserted, overexploited industrial landscape.