Artist: Rob Stephenson

Project: Myths of the Near Future

Description: In Myths of the Near Future Rob Stephenson considers the “Space Coast” of Florida after the closing of the Kennedy Space Center’s shuttle program. Idle shuttles and abandoned switchboards accompany half demolished buildings, lush wilderness, and neon motel signs and skies. Interested both in documenting the very real economic struggles communities surrounding the Space Center have faced in the aftermath of the program’s end, and in exploring the “ambiguous realm between dream and reality, between past and future, and between nature and technology,” Stephenson’s photographs provide a portrait of a place suspended in a kind of liminal space: “nostalgi[c] for the future as the promise of the Space Age slowly fades away.” 

• Resolution, 2013 Resolution, 2013
• JC Penney, 2014 JC Penney, 2014
• Atlas V Vapor Trail, 2013 Atlas V Vapor Trail, 2013
• Untitled, 2014 Untitled, 2014
• Delta IV, 2014 Delta IV, 2014
• Sandman Motel, 2015 Sandman Motel, 2015
• Space Shuttle Suite, 2013 Space Shuttle Suite, 2013
• Demolition of Glass Bank Building, 2015 Demolition of Glass Bank Building, 2015
• Trailer, 2015 Trailer, 2015
• Titusville, 2013 Titusville, 2013
• Atlantis, 2015 Atlantis, 2015
• Dead Satellite 1, 2014 Dead Satellite 1, 2014
• Astronaut Hall of Fame, 2014 Astronaut Hall of Fame, 2014
• Untitled, 2015 Untitled, 2015
• Untitled, 2014 Untitled, 2014
• Three Oaks Motel, 2014 Three Oaks Motel, 2014
• NASA Radar, 2014 NASA Radar, 2014
• Atlantis, 2015 Atlantis, 2015
• Forest, 2014 Forest, 2014
• Space Bowl, 2015 Space Bowl, 2015
• Delta IV, 2014 Delta IV, 2014
• Pool, 2013 Pool, 2013
• Shuttle, 2015 Shuttle, 2015
• Titusville, 2013 Titusville, 2013
• Chairs, 2013 Chairs, 2013
• Vapor Trail, 2015 Vapor Trail, 2015
• Dead Satellite, 2014 Dead Satellite, 2014
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