Jennifer Garza-Cuen got her start shooting slot champions, tourists and divorce parties at the motel casinos down route 40 in Reno, Nevada. Later she became a cocktail waitress at the Nugget, but perpetual dissatisfaction drove her on the road which landed her in Providence where she recently completed her MFA in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Of her work she writes, ‘As someone who considers herself placeless, my process is that of a wanderer, a radicant (or Ivy like plant) actively enrooting myself in the specifics of each place as I move from one to another’. These images are from her series, ‘Reno’.
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nice nice work
I have been following your work and I’m continually impressed with your results. The Reno series you produced is equally impressive as your Detroit series. Well done!
I just discovered your work, and thank you for it. In particular the comments along side the photos in COCKTAILS. Just amazing thank you,
and thank you as well for taking a picture of the side entrance to Val’s
Midtown Lounge. I was just there last week.
Thanks Willy,
That means a lot coming from you!
I love your novels and loved the soundtrack you created for Northline.
Hope we get a chance to meet one of these days.